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School districtz, panicked by large gapz, have adopted a new strategy
to "close the DAFNgapz" and thereby improve apparent school
performance as required by NCLB (No Child Left Behind). 

They are booting out the dumbest DAFNz as early as possible to get
those hopelessly failing scorz deleted from the averagez.

http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/schlafly/20031029.htm
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Children Left Behind
Toogood Reports [Wednesday, October 29, 2003; 12:00 a.m. ET]

The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to score higher on 
standardized tests each year, and also *REQUIRES_EVERY_RACIAL_GROUP 
TO_SHOW_IMPROVEMENT*. 

Schools can *MANIPULATE_THE_FIGURES* with "PUSHOUTs," students who are 
pressured to *LEAVE_SCHOOL* long before graduation in order to improve 
statistics. 

During the 2000-2001 year, New York City schools graduated 
34,000 students, while *DISCHARGING* 55,000 high school students.
The discharges included students who moved away or transferred 
to private schools, but it is easy to hide thousands of "pushouts" 
in the "transfer" category. 

The vision of No Child Left Behind is to *CLOSE_THE_GAP* between 
higher-achieving students and minorities.

Yet it appears that no strategies introduced so far have done much 
to close that gap. The liberals' solution is always to throw more 
money at the problem, and billions of dollars have been spent through 
the Title I program. 

A new study by the American Enterprise Institute called "Closing the
Education *GAP*: Is Title I Working?" compared the scores of individual 
Title I students with the scores of similar students who did not 
receive Title I benefits. The researchers found *NO_EVIDENCE* that
Title I programs had improved the recipients' academic performance. 

Of course, despite a 20-year record of failure, Title I funding was 
reauthorized in the NCLB Act. Federal spending on education has grown 
by $11 billion since President Bush took office. 
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There'z more than one way to dizguize a DAFN, what Mother_Nature
hath genetically created *Inferior -- PUSHOUTz...