The U.S. Department of Education made it easier for schools and districts to show adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act by allowing adjustments in states鈥� accountability plans in 2006, according to the Center on Education Policy.
A report by the Washington-based research and policy group suggests that more and more states are following changes that the department already allowed in other states鈥� plans, or are adopting the adjustments and flexibility in policy guidance handed down by U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings in 2005. Many of the changes in states鈥� plans had to do with meeting the deadline for implementing tests that meet the requirements of the federal education law by the end of the 2005-06 school year, the report says.
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