Originally Posted by cycloneG 
05-06? Check for 07-08. There are no Ames Schools listed and three Iowa City schools.
Also, if you don't care for how the federal government monitors academic achievement in schools, what about the state government?
According to the Student Achievement and Teacher Quality Program of Iowa, in 2007 the Ames Community School district ranked 25th in the state while the Iowa City Community School district ranked 211th.
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I know bashing NCLB is a fun past time, but an accurate measure of student progress is something this country has needed for a long time. NCLB isn't perfect but it's the measuring stick that is currently used.
NCLB is nowhere near accurate. The way the school systems are evaluated is a complete farce. Using statistics like this as the sole basis for an argument against a public school is very misguided.
