are not meeting the Annual Yearly Progress standards in the NCLB bill.  31 schools this year meet standards while 42 met standards a year ago.

are going to take place when the bill comes up for renewal next year says a panel that is looking at this bill.  Discussion over national set standards took place.

are dropping big time in the sixth grade. The drop in grades can easily cause them to not meet NCLB “Annual Yearly Progress” goals.

68% of third graders passed the exam while only 49.3% of eighth graders pass the exam.

want only one way to test schools to see if they are good or not.  The state is using one way to test a school based on rules mandated by the state Legislature in 1993 and they are also testing schools based on the NCLB bill.

I would say the state would have to use the testing rules from the NCLB.

reports on how Sequoyah Middle School rose from the “No Child Left Behind” burden. The school has 80% of its students as Spanish-speaking. Good read.

The Education Department will allow teachers to be called highly qualified even if the rules in some states do little to insure quality.

Tens of thousands of teacher could be affected by this rule change.