Finger-Pointing Follows NCLB Results

RALEIGH — Newspapers across North Carolina recently reported dismal results from schools and districts statewide failing to meet the educational goals set forth by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The one word pointedly missing in the verbiage was “accountability.” Most school administrators gave excuses, not answers to the questions regarding their schools’ failure to make the grade and, in most cases, declining in their overall academic performance during the 2004-05 school year.