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    Filed at 7:41 am under by dcobranchi

    A HIDDEN AGENDA? Could this have been the real motivation behind the NCLB Act?

    State education officials are warning that a new federal education law’s requirement that each racial and demographic subgroup in a school show annual improvement on standardized tests will result in the majority of the nation’s schools being deemed failing…

    “What happens is you create a situation where there are so many schools failing that there is no support for them,” said Paul Houston, executive director of the 14,000-member American Association of School Administrators.

    Surely Bush and our legislators couldn’t be that cynical. Well?

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