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March 9, 2004
Britt Robson

Built to Fail

The federal No Child Left Behind law is threatening to wreck public education in Minnesota and elsewhere

That's what it was designed to do.

..."We have 7,200 kids in our district. The reality is, if just a few kids in a certain subgroup don't show up for the test, the whole district can be classified as failing and put under restriction," he [Edina, Minnesota School Superintendent Dr. Ken Dragseth] says. "That's just asinine. I tell this to parents and they say it can't be so, but it is. I'm an old math teacher and statistician, and I know when I've been had."

 

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