Schools statewide try to solve deficiencies with no road map

Like so many Humpty Dumpties, high schools around Illinois are falling apart by the standards of No Child Left Behind federal legislation, failing to educate enough of their students well enough to meet math, science and reading standards.

And after five years of missing federal benchmarks, the federal government defines those schools as failing and tells school districts to put the pieces of that failing school back together again in a better way – a process called restructuring – or else the state government will step in and do its own style of crack-fixing.

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