Half of public schools fail federal standards

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Nearly half of America’s public schools did not meet federal achievement standards set by the No Child Left Behind Law which took effect a decade ago, according to a national report released Thursday.

The Center on Education Policy found that 43,000 schools (48%) did not make “adequate yearly progress” in 2011.

The failure rates vary from state to state, with a low of 11% in Wisconsin to a high of 89% in Florida. In Virginia the failure rate rests at 62%.

While the rates are below predictions made earlier this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s still an alarming trend.

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  • hard working teacher

    I am one of those teachers and no I am not in a union. I make less money now since I got my masters degree and I spend a lot of my own money (what little I have) buying supplies for my classroom. I am now considered to be low income. The standards are not low in fact what they forgot to mention is that the the percentage we had to meet went up this past year. Oh by the way my school worked our tails off to teach READING, PHONICS, PHONEMIC AWARENESS, GRAMMAR, ORAL LANGUAGE (because people don't talk to their kids any more), COMPREHENSION, WRITING, MATH, SOCIAL STUDIES OF AMERICAN HISTORY, SCIENCE, ART, PE, LIBRARY, AND COMPUTERS SKILLS. We made the new standards. By 2020 ALL school will be required to meet 100% of students passing. That will include special needs students. By 2014 in my state all students will be required to pass the state reading test or they do not get passed on to fourth grade. This year we are required to meet 80%. Because of the hike in percentages many school did not make AYP. WE DID! And we are a poverty stricken school. Oh and yes there are federal government standards as well as state standards. I deal with them on a daily basis.

    • http://www.survivingurbancrisis.com/ SurvivingUrbanCrisis.com

      Whoa, you have messed up now, telling the world you didn’t adhere to federal standards by putting REAL education into all those little heads. Dear old Mom spent 35 years of her life in public education, most of which were spent railing against the federal meddling and tinkering with the education system the STATE knew better on. Her school went from one of the top in the state to one of the lowest as the neighborhood around the school went to crap as at the same time, federal intrusion intensified over all those years.
      Stand your ground and fight them, until they go away.

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