that 35 Triangle public schools are going to be facing No Child Left Behind sanctions.

North Carolina schools are going to have to use the new reading exam scores for the elementary and middle school grade levels. They also have to use a five-year graduation rate for high schools.

This could force more schools in to trouble under the No Child Left Behind Bill.

which shows how well states are doing with the Highly Qualified Teacher rules and the NCLB bill.

A quick look at the data shows:

North Dakota with the only state at 100%, but a whole bunch of states are really close to 100%. Alaska has made a massively huge jump in the amount of highly qualified teachers teaching core classes.

When it comes to elementary schools we do not see much difference in the percentage of Highly Qualified Teachers in low and high poverty schools.

When it come to secondary schools we do see in a few states like Alabama, Delaware, and Kansas where we have a massive difference between the high and low poverty schools in the percentage of highly qualified teachers teaching.

up by the New York Times today.

Article one looks at Margaret Spellings and her continued fight for the NCLB Bill.

The second one looks Democratic plans to fix the educational system.

with a report looking at rural areas and the No Child Left Behind Bill.

They report:

Rural districts says that policies they created did more to help student achievement then provisions in the NCLB.

Rural school districts have sizable percentages of achievement gaps for students with disabilities and low-income students, but a smaller share of rural districts than of urban or suburban districts report having achievement gaps for racial/ethnic minority students or English language learners (ELLs) because they enroll too few of these students to calculate gaps under NCLB.

Highly qualified teacher rules have little impact on hiring practices in rural school districts, but some are having problems getting math and science teachers.

saying that more states in the USA are looking for bigger gains by the years of 2012-2013 just to meet the AYP goals of the NCLB bill.

They say that 23 states have backloaded AYP goals and that is a bad thing. No way are states going to see that much of a gain in math and reading scores in such a short period.

I feel a lot of these states are going to say we need an extra couple of years to meet the AYP goals. Not something I think will get changed by the Department of Education, but will have to be done though.