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Most Reston Elementary Schools Meet No Child Left Behind Benchmark
No middle or high schools make Adequate Yearly Progress for 2010-11, but what does that really mean?
Only 38 percent of Virginia public schools made Adequate Yearly Progress during the 2010-11 school year, prompting Virginia Department of Education officials to point out the flaws in the Federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. “Accountability is not advanced by arbitrary rules and benchmarks that misidentify schools,” state superintendant of instruction Patricia Wright said in a statement after numbers were released by the Virginia DOE on Thursday. “During the coming weeks, I will begin a discussion with the state board on creating a new model for measuring yearly progress that maintains high expectations for student achievement, recognizes growth — overall and by subgroup — and accurately identifies schools most in need of …
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7:40 am on Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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