Will an election year come when Republican
and Democratic candidates try to outbid one another with proposals for expanding charters, setting high
standards, formulating tough
accountability regimes,
and curbing union power?
At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready
standard, in reading, writing
and maths,
and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7
and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new
accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected
standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.