With the help of Congress, a president could get rid of the agency. Getting rid of the programs it runs and the money it ...

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American students continue to struggle in both reading and math, and the gap between the highest and lowest performing kids ...

Jill Underly, who is running for re-election, overhauled the state's standardized testing benchmarks and renamed the levels ...

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National reading and math test results show widening achievement gaps and a decline in reading skills among students.

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