Utah's Office of Education says it has better plans for students, parents and teachers than what was mandated under the federal "No Child Left Behind" program.
With the "Comprehensive Accountability System," the state now has more control of how students learn. Associate Superintendent Brenda Hales says the 10-year-old federal program wouldn't allow Utah to better pinpoint struggling schools, or pull certain resources from schools that had too many. She said No Child Left Behind also misidentified real progress.
"Some of those provisions were actually coloring in an inaccurate way some schools, and also not identifying schools that we thought needed help," she said.
Hales says Utah's program eliminates federal redundancies so teachers aren't so restricted. KSL
