Senate bill endorses the state Department of Education’s move away from the evaluation methods of the federal No Child Left Behind Act . . .
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 . . .
The number of schools meeting the ‘adequate yearly progress’ requirements of the No Child Left Behind law declined this year . . .
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 . . .
Georgia wants to get out from under the test score requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act . . .
The number of public schools not meeting “adequate yearly progress” standards set by No Child Left Behind continues to increase . . .
Some 29 percent of the state’s public schools fall short of the required standard under the federal No Child Left Behind act . . .
