"President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act this year is being roundly praised by San Gabriel Valley and Whittier-area educators, who say they'd welcome a new federal accountability system to measure schools that is based on annual progress.
As it stands now, NCLB sets specific testing targets for math and language arts that rise each year, with the overall goal of having 100 percent of students proficient in those two areas by the 2013-14 school year.
But in his budget plan, Obama proposed judging schools differently, by looking instead at student growth and schools' progress from one year to the next."
As it stands now, NCLB sets specific testing targets for math and language arts that rise each year, with the overall goal of having 100 percent of students proficient in those two areas by the 2013-14 school year.
But in his budget plan, Obama proposed judging schools differently, by looking instead at student growth and schools' progress from one year to the next."