IT NOW SEEMS highly unlikely Congress will re-authorize No Child Left Behind.

The six-year-old federal law stipulates that each year an increasing percentage of students at each school become proficient in language arts and math until, by the year 2014, every single child is grade-level proficient in both subjects.

The act also mandates escalating sanctions for Title 1 schools (those receiving federal funds to assist disadvantaged children) for repeatedly failing to meet those annual proficiency benchmarks.

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