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Missouri: Federal government asks state to review failing schools Entire student bodies must meet yearly testing goals, but each group of students — black, white, Asian, low-income, special-education and those learning English as a second language — are held to the same standards. And those standards increase each year.
Other school administrators say No Child Left Behind demands the impossible, though they say they continue to work toward goals. It has been difficult, Kemna said, for state employees to interpret all the new rules. Federal guidelines initially encouraged interpretation. Now this report, she said, has shown her the federal government doesn’t tolerate as much flexibility as first thought. Kemna said the state must respond to the U.S. Department of Education by the middle of this month. State officials fixed many of the problems cited before the federal team even left, she said, but others will take more effort. The state will now ask to see letters before districts send them to parents. It also will compile yearly lists of districts that missed state testing goals and must be penalized. 
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