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Unlike the ruling of the district court, the decision reached by the 9th Circuit will most likely not come under the review of a higher court, in this case the Supreme Court...
...Bush administration says his school is failing to help him. They’re wrong. I’ve been there. I’ve seen the dedication, seen the data, seen how kids flock to this place of good in their lives. Children that stay in this district improve. They’re given a solid chance to change their own story of poverty...
...this at Patrick’s school, but the government doesn’t. Through the No Child Left Behind Act, they’ve declared that five out of the six schools in his district are failing. According to their data, the sixth is too, but the agency administering the act overlooked it. It wasn’t the first mistake they made...
While they demand improvement from all schools—an effective start to any school plan—what the regulations of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) don’t do is measure the progress being made in a district like Patrick’s. In his district, returning students at all six schools see gains every year, but 40 percent of the students that walk in the door in August are gone by the end of the year...
...also includes a provision to penalize schools that don’t test a sufficient percentage of all of their minority groups. This clearly well-intentioned policy is easily misapplied, as it was when a few of the Native American students in Patrick’s district didn’t show up on test day, and the school was accused of suppressing that ethnic group in their testing program...