Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Education Secretary Designee Failed Standard for Five Years

The Chicago Public Schools, whose superintendent, Arne Duncan, has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to be the next education secretary, failed to meet the Illinois state standards set under the No Child Left Behind Act for the last five years.

From 2004 to 2008, the Chicago district (District 299) failed to make ''Adequate Yearly Progress'' (AYP) in key areas...

[because they're selected for ideology, not trivialities like performance]

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