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Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools can be penalized because of those tests. We could be considered as failures and sanctioned.


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DELEGATE DAVID RUDOLPH Good schools should be left alone.
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RANDI WEINGARTEN He blesses us so we can be different.
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ROB ZOMBIE The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
ROB LOWE Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little g...
ROB GLASER I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt any...
ROB ZOMBIE You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be neg...
ROB PORTMAN There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When...
ROB MANUEL The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in th...
ROB SHEFFIELD I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see...
ROB MARIANO More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is jus...
ROB MANUEL I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way - especially men in suits who just have...
ROB KARDASHIAN For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having...
ROB LOWE There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I ...
ROB LOWE We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little succe...
ROB LOWE The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Ho...
ROB THOMAS What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less mone...
ROB PORTMAN I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm...
ROB ZOMBIE Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are ...
ROB PIKE In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really wei...
ROB SHEFFIELD Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress believed we could spend our way to prosperity, and I guess ...
ROB PORTMAN Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, those guys mean so much to me because I watched those guys ...
ROB RIGGLE There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform...
ROB MCKENNA Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are...
ROB SHEFFIELD Loving Duran Duran has been one of the constants of my life, but I have no idea what they would soun...
ROB SHEFFIELD 'A Valley Without Wind' takes the idea of dungeon crawls and throws it on its head by castin...
ROB MANUEL That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes ...
ROB SHEFFIELD New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions ...
ROB LEBOW Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you e...
ROB SHERIDAN