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TexasTowelie

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Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:27 AM Aug 2016

New Idaho plan replaces No Child Left Behind

TWIN FALLS — Idaho will soon have a new way to gauge public school performance.

Earlier this month, the Idaho Board of Education approved a framework for a new accountability system. A plan is still being developed and will be tested out this school year.

Idaho is required to create a plan to align with the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which was signed into law in 2015. It largely replaces No Child Left Behind.

“I’m encouraged by what I’ve heard,” Twin Falls School District Superintendent Wiley Dobbs said about Idaho’s plan. “I view this as an improvement.”

Read more: http://magicvalley.com/news/local/education/new-idaho-plan-replaces-no-child-left-behind/article_ced38c81-d113-57e7-bf82-2a43d0c36da8.html

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