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Thursday, November 15, 2012  Seven Georgia public schools and one private school were honored Tuesday in Washington D.C. at the 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools Ceremony held by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan according to a press release issued by the Georgia Department of Education.

Friday, May 18, 2012  Schools across the state no longer have AYP scores, but that doesn't mean schools won't be monitored.

Friday, February 10, 2012  Updated with video; Georgia recieves a waiver from No Child Left Behind.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012  Council finds a growing number of states move to weaken teacher tenure

Wednesday, January 18, 2012  Updated with video; A decade after the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, Georgia schools Superintendent John Barge and other state school superintendents are pushing to have it waived.

Thursday, December 15, 2011  Report: half of US public schools fail to meet federal standards under No Child Left Behind

Tuesday, September 27, 2011  In today's Facebook story of the day, you wanted to know how changes to No Child Left Behind are affecting southwest Georgia schools.

Friday, July 22, 2011  Updated with video; Thirteen Dougherty County Schools made Adequate Yearly Progress this year, thirteen failed and so did the district as a whole. But what does that mean for the school system?

Monday, July 11, 2011 

Monday, April 11, 2011  Students across Dougherty County spent much of Monday’s school day undergoing the latest round of the controversial CRCT testing program. Meanwhile, the G-B-I investigation into 2009’s C-R-C-T results continues.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011  National test shows fewer than half of 4th, 8th, 12th grade students proficient in science.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009  Georgia schools fared much better this year on federal benchmarks than last year, with nearly 80 percent passing muster.