The Obama administration will seek to scrap a key metric in the eight-
year-old No Child Left Behind law -- the standard of "adequate yearly
progress" for public schools -- as it develops a new formula to hold
schools accountable for student performance, according to a budget
document made public Monday.
Under the law, schools are rated on how many of their students pass
state reading and math tests. Target pass rates rise each year toward
a standard of universal proficiency by 2014 for all groups -- a goal
experts have long called utopian.
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