The Choice Channel

“The state is scheduled to release the names of schools that failed to meet the federal government’s standard for the 2007-08 school year, and schools across San Antonio are bracing for bad news. The number of local schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress — the key measure of academic performance under President Bush’s public school overhaul, No Child Left Behind — is expected to nearly double from last year, when 33 schools missed the mark. Explaining the tumble is complicated, but at the heart, local school leaders say, is a provision of the federal law that requires the vast majority of special education students to be tested at their grade level — not below.” (10/14/08)