Susan Aspey
Susan Aspey
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The guidance is simply that guidance. Schools can choose to use the model survey or not, it's their choice.
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This is unprecedented. In recent memory, we have never seen this number of displaced schoolchildren.
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The funds have been provided for testing, but Connecticut apparently wants to keep those funds without using them as intended.
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A core principle of No Child Left Behind is annual testing in grades three through eight -- so that we know how students are doing,
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Unfortunately, today's action doesn't bring the state any closer to closing its achievement gap, which is among the largest in the nation. From the day she walked in the door, Secretary Spellings has worked diligently to listen and respond to states' needs and concerns, and she has kept her word to help states implement No Child Left Behind in a workable, common-sense way.
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We believe very strongly in these children and we're not granting waivers without the data to back it up,