Montana dips in adequate yearly progress goals

  As report cards go, Montana's schools are in for a doozy later this month. Preliminary reviews of the state's No Child Left Behind test results show that 71% of the schools passed their adequate yearly progress threshold. Last year, nine of 10 hit that benchmark.

The dip coincides with a big jump in the threshold itself, along with other changes that make AYP much harder to attain, said Superintendent of Schools Linda McCulloch. Read more about Montana's situation in the Billings Gazette online.