New norm in Obama regime: Graduates who can’t read
Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
Canada Free Press
Monday, August 22, 2011

The goal of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act was to have every student proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014. Proposed by George W. Bush shortly after he took office, the bill had bipartisan support in Congress. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills for all students in certain grades in order for states to receive federal funding.

State and local education officials have been asking federal government authorities for relief from their own student testing mandates because more and more schools have been labeled failures due to less and less students passing the reading standards during each spring testing.

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