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- 08-16-2011
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Blog by Michele McNeil/Education Week
Montana and the U.S. Department of Education have ended a No Child Left Behind showdown after federal officials agreed to let the state reset its proficiency targets so more schools would make "adequate yearly progress" this year. This NCLB do-over, announced today by Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, means 155 schools will make AYP when they shouldn't have. This year, proficiency targets for schools to make AYP were supposed to rise to 92 percent in reading and 84 percent in math. For the previous three years, proficiency targets had been flat at 83 percent in reading and 68 percent in math. Instead, the U.S. Department of Education let the state revise its proficiency targets through its accountability workbook (not through a formal waiver) to be 84.4 percent in reading and 70 percent in math. The reason? (more...)
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