WASHINGTON – A committee forwarded to the Senate Thursday evening a bill that rewrites the education law No Child Left Behind. The bill would give states more control over accountability in schools and alter some of the law’s proficiency requirements. Sen. Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said [...]

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – More than 120,000 children are eligible to transfer from their struggling Connecticut schools to better schools this fall, but there’s no mass exodus in the making. Many parents are finding that even when they try to transfer their children under provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law, neighboring schools [...]

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