The pressure from federal mandates on schools in Montgomery County to improve the performance of struggling students may lift next year as Maryland likely begins a program to focus resources on the state’s lowest-performing schools.
The new program, developed by the U.S. Department of Education, would offer states more flexibility under No Child Left Behind, the sweeping federal law aimed at closing the racial and economic achievement gap, with the hope schools will develop creative means for saving schools in direst need.
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