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Failing Schools Strain to Meet US Standard

According to a recent NY Times report, No Child Left Behind is branding more and more schools as failing, but not producing radical change. The article, which appeared Tuesday, reports that more than 1,000 of California's 9,500 schools are branded as chronic failures, and all 6,063 of the state's public schools serving poor students could potentially need restructuring by 2014. In Florida 441 schools could be candidates for closing, while 49 schools in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, alone have failed to reach achievement targets for five years or more.

However, because the cost of restructuring can be so taxing, the US Department of Education is more interested in helping states figure out what works than in punishment.

 

Questions, ideas, or in need of more information? Please contact Stacey Pusey at 302-295-8349.

 

"Failing Schools Strain to Meet U.S. Standard"
The New York Times

 

 

 

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