{"id":2542,"date":"2004-02-26T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T09:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2004-02-26T09:29:40","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T09:29:40","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"THE BEGINNING OF THE END"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of NCLB.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially every school district in the state of Minnesota is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/pioneerpress\/living\/education\/8041554.htm\">&#8220;failing.&#8221;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A report today will estimate that 80 percent to 100 percent of Minnesota&#8217;s school districts will not meet expectations of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, according to a state official familiar with the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In a state that ranks at or near the top on many national student-achievement measures, the report&#8217;s findings that so many school districts are considered under-performing are sure to be unsettling. They also will add fuel to a smoldering rebellion at the Legislature on the No Child Left Behind Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The state is considering forgoing federal dollars in order to opt out of NCLB.  And, it&#8217;s only going to get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of NCLB. Essentially every school district in the state of Minnesota is &#8220;failing.&#8221; A report today will estimate that 80 percent to 100 percent of Minnesota&#8217;s school districts will not meet expectations of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, according to a state official familiar with the report. &#8230;In a state that ranks at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}