10.19.2008 11:25 pm
Are area schools really as bad as the federal government says?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A story on today’s front page claims that due to the details of the federal No Child Left Behind law, some of our best area schools - ones that out-tested 90 percent of the state - had to send letters to parents offering the chance to let them transfer their child to other districts – at no cost to the parents.
Almost half the area’s 500-plus schools were reprimanded under the law. Yet, according to a Post-Dispatch analysis, nearly 100 of those schools scored above the state average on the yearly tests.
No area district was entirely spared. Federal…
