State officials bash federal education standard 98% of high schools don’t meet
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BY ROSALIND ROSSI and LAUREN FITZPATRICK Staff Reporters October 30, 2012 5:46PM
Illinois State Board of Education Chairman Gery Chico, right, and State Superintendent of Education Christopher Koch discussed state test scores, the number of schools that missed Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), and the status of Illinois’ request for a waiver from the AYP requirements of No Child Left Behind at the Thompson Center Tuesday Oct. 30, 2012. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
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Updated: October 30, 2012 8:10PM
More than 98 percent of Illinois’ high schools fell short of a federal benchmark in 2012, so many that state officials on Tuesday called the No Child Left Behind law governing education “severely deficient.”
But until the state is granted a waiver from the federal requirements — a request that is still under review — many high-performing schools will continue to be labeled as failures, said Gery Chico, chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education.
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