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Gwinnet Daily Post
y Jaime Sarrio
Staff Writer
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LAWRENCEVILLE Several Gwinnett County schools this year will accept transfers from schools that need improvement, according to the state.
Federal No Child Left Behind laws require states to identify under-performing schools. After two years of lagging test scores, schools are placed on the states needs-improvement list and must offer transfers to another school in the district.
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Student transfers offer mixed blessing |
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St. Petersburg Times
The school choice program allowing parents to move their children from one school to another often stretches a popular target school's capacity.
By BARBARA BEHRENDT, Times Staff Writer
Published July 30, 2004
CRYSTAL RIVER - As summer vacation draws to a close, Rock Crusher Elementary School principal Nancy Simon is preparing to welcome her returning students - and 58 more who are coming from other schools.
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No Child Left Behind may soon see changes |
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The Advocate
By WILL SENTELL
Advocate staff writer
A new report paints a grim picture about the ability of Louisiana public schools to meet tougher state and federal education rules.
Left unanswered is this: Will today's standards be in place long enough for the worrisome predictions to ever come true?
The yearlong study was done by the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana. It provides a detailed look at hurdles public schools face to comply with n... |
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School systems not making the grade under new ratings |
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Macon Telegraph
By Karen Shugart
Telegraph Staff Writer
About 67 percent of Georgia school systems - including most in the midstate - did not make adequate yearly progress in 2003-2004, according to state Department of Education data.
Of 15 Middle Georgia systems, only Jones, Twiggs and Wilkinson counties met the state and federal benchmarks required by the federal No Child Left Behind school accountability law. Twelve other systems, including Bibb and Houston counties, did ... |
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Education law posts no progress |
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Fort-Wayne Journal Gazette
Reources, not labels, help schools improve
How do your neighborhood schools measure up? For the easy answer, check out the states list of schools needing improvement. For the right answer, youll have to look more closely.
The Indiana Department of Education announced Wednesday that 1,406 of the states 1,828 schools showed adequate yearly progress on the standardized achievement test, ISTEP+.
Those 422 schools that didnt post improvement could ha... |
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State releases which schools, districts need improvement |
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Northwest Indiana Times
BY OLIVIA CLARKE
Times Staff Writer
Fifty-four schools and 12 districts in Lake and Porter counties made the "needs improvement" list, and many now face sanctions.
On Thursday, the state released the 2003 Adequate Yearly Progress standings for Indiana school corporations and schools, required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Only Title I schools and Title I school districts get sanctioned if they do not improve enough year to year.
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