New Jersey School Shows Small Gains In Standards

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More than one-quarter of New Jersey’s 2,430 public schools were cited yesterday for failing to meet federal education standards after too few of their students passed state reading and math tests this spring, state education officials said yesterday.

A total of 618 schools failed to meet annual testing benchmarks established under No Child Left Behind, which was a slight improvement over the 643 schools cited the year before. Some of the state’s worst-performing schools made enough gains over the past year to escape further sanctions, or to be removed entirely from the list of schools under scrutiny. ...