Feds to loosen No Child Left Behind requirements

The Bush administration on Friday granted new flexibility to states on how they track student progress under the No Child Left Behind education law.

The Education Department announcement was a response to stalled efforts in Congress to rewrite the five-year-old law, and an acknowledgment that the law in its current form is flawed.

How progress is measured is critical to schools, because it determines whether they meet annual goals and avoid penalties.

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