Sentences with phrase «progress with federal money»

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The Editorial Board treads familiar, almost entirely mythological, ground with their defense of annual testing of all students: Once upon a time, the federal government «kept doling out education money to the states no matter how abysmally their school systems performed,» and the requirement for mass standardized testing was «to make sure that students in all districts were making progress and that poor and minority students were being educated.»

However, the appropriating of federal money, with or without strings attached, to improve the education of low - achieving children or their schools has not been effective, to judge by the nation's so - called «Report Cards» (officially known as National Assessment of Educational Progress tests) since the 1970s.