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Article: SOUTH CAROLINA BECOMES FIRST STATE TO EARN NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT 'PEER REVIEW' APPROVAL FOR STATE TESTS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 15, 2006
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The South Carolina Department of Education issued the following news release:
South Carolina became the first state in the nation to earn federal approval for its key student testing systems under the No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education announced today.
"Please accept my congratulations for your state's approved standards and assessment system under NCLB," Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education Henry L. Johnson wrote in a letter to State Superintendent of Education Inez Tenenbaum.
When NCLB was passed by Congress in 2001, it required all states to have their assessments "peer reviewed" by panels of testing experts from other states, the federal education agency, ...