California schools chief warns of more schools falling behind

A week before California releases new data schools that met "Adequate Yearly Progress", California Superintendent of Schools Tom Torlakson is warning more schools could be falling behind.

Torlakson projects that 4,800 schools in California will be in "improvement status" for the 2011-12 school year, which means they failed to meet all goals imposed by No Child Left Behind. Torlakson is asking U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that California be allowed to "freeze sanctions and mandatory identification required under NCLB...Schools that have not made AYP would not be subject to initial identification, nor to escalating sanctions, but rather, would remain in their current status."

You'll find a copy of the letter here.