Three-quarters of schools nationwide will fail next year under the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Federal officials, though, hope to change the law before that happens.
Nationally, the Department of Education estimates the number of schools failing will jump from nearly 40 percent this year to 82 percent next year. For 2009-10, only 48 percent of city schools met the federal standards.
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Worried about how to pay off that student debt? Head on over to the closest government agency, and you too can score loan forgiveness after ten years of “public service.” Does that sound too good to be true? Well, Paul Winfree tells us that politicians voted to make these dreams (or nightmares) a reality:
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Worried about how to pay off that student debt? Head on over to the closest government agency, and you too can score loan forgiveness after ten years of “public service.” Does that sound too good to be true? Well, Paul Winfree tells us that politicians voted to make these dreams (or nightmares) a reality:
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Kevin Jennings, President Obama's Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education, is in hot water this week for having failed to report that a 15-year-old sophomore student in his school had told him of having sex with an older man.
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