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Take Action: Demand EPA Honesty on Environmental Aftermath from Hurricane Katrina

Friday, September 30, 2005

Katrina trumps No Child Left Behind

The Washington Post is reporting on the Dep't of Education's decision to ease NCLB regs for schools affected by Katrina:

'No Child' Rules to Be Eased for a Year

 

Under pressure from hurricane-stressed states, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced yesterday that the agency will for one year relax academic accountability standards under the administration's signature education initiative, allowing schools affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita to...

[Via washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.]



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