Georgia’s eighth grade students scored a few points better on NAEP science tests administered in 2011 . . .
State school Supt. John Barge tries to calm concerns about the state’s declining graduation rates . . .
Georgia’s high school graduation rate is just 67 percent, not the 81 percent that was previously claimed, according to figures released Tuesday . . .
Look for a much lower graduation rate to be disclosed Tuesday for Georgia’s high school students . . .
Georgia’s traditional public schools performed slightly better than charter schools last year when it came to making the adequate yearly progress spelled out in No Child Left Behind . . .
Federal education officials will allow Georgia to ease out of the standardized test performance requirements of the No Child Left Behind law . . .
Sonny Perdue’s ’65 percent rule’ for school system expenditures could be extensively modified or abandoned altogether . . .
The number of schools meeting the ‘adequate yearly progress’ requirements of the No Child Left Behind law declined this year . . .
The decision by then-governor Sonny Perdue to remove three members of the Warren County school board in 2010 has been appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court . . .
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is impressed with Georgia’s school accountability plan, could grant the state a No Child Left Behind waiver by the end of the year . . .
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