Sunday, June 13, 2010

Going Out On a (Not So) High Note

Well...the 2009-10 school year is in the books. Graduation is over, and the summer parties have begun. What many may have missed--and certainly not something you'll ever see discussed on the district website or at a school board meeting--was a teensy little article in the State Journal this week.

Several Madison schools fail to meet No Child Left Behind standards.
DeForest, Middleton and
Sun Prairie high schools also missed one or more testing benchmarks.

Statewide, 145 schools and four districts, including Madison, missed one or more adequate yearly progress targets. Under the law
[like it or hate it], schools and districts that failed to meet the same progress targets for two or more years are identified as needing improvement.