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Report: Texas may lose 'No Child Left Behind' funds
Associated Press

AUSTIN -- The U.S. Department of Education may withhold as much as $7 million from President Bush's home state for failing to tell parents whether schools performed up to standards under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Parents won't be able to request transfers to move their children from poorly performing schools until the information is released, and the funding may be withheld until then.

"The law states we're supposed to announce the results before school started and we did not make that deadline," Debbie Graves Ratcliffe, a Texas Education Agency spokeswoman, told the San Antonio Express-News for its Saturday editions.

State education officials said they may not have final results until February.

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shame on my home state!

I just can't pretend to be amazed at anything TEA does. Or doesn't do.

in Texas under Rod Paige.

...as "the failure of the previous governor leaving Texas' educational system in such a mess, erm, wait a minute..."

Will the Dems make some points with this?

which has cost tens of thousands of kids their only source of health care. It wasn't used simply because the GOP here didn't want to use the money. The attitude was "so what?"

BTW, when I say "we", I'm in Texas

to take away the funding? Isn't that rather counterproductive?

Only this administration could come up with something so stupid. Must need the money for Halliburton, another favorite program, which gets far better monetary support from this administration than do children.

In that it destroys schools instead of helping them. If it remains in place without any changes, I think it will mean the end of public schools within 10 years.

I live in a very good school district. It is exclusive, and has tons of money through a private foundation. The kids that enter the school district are priviledged. We don't have kids on free/reduced lunches. Not. At. All.

And yet, we still fail parts of the NCLB act in terms of testing. If our district cannot make it, how can those that have ANY disadvantage make it?