No Child Left Behind in Montana

If you want to see the change the No Child Left Behind Act has made in Butte public education, look no further than East Middle School.

Except for one year, East — which is fed by the district’s six elementary schools — has failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, the federal government’s measuring stick for No Child Left Behind, since testing began in 2002.

As a whole, most of East’s students have met or exceeded proficiency targets in reading and math, but there are pockets of students, such as those with disabilities, and those who are low-income or belong to an ethnic group, which are counted separately and called subgroups.

If one of those groups fail, the whole school fails.

By Leslie McCartney, of The Montana Standard

Full Story: http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2007/11/11/butte_top/20071111_butte_top.txt