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There was a lot more activity from Department of Education after Thanksgiving. Perhaps the most important document that ED released on November 19, 2007 was a letter to Chief State School Officers outlining amendments to Accountability Workbooks for School Year 2007-2008 in light of NCLB Reauthorization. The letter discusses how States should propose amendments in their accountability workbooks, implement regulations on Modified Academic Achievement Standards, as well as Eligibility for Transition
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Flexibility in the 2007-08 School Year.
On November 30, ED released Title II (Part A) Monitoring Reports for 2007-2010 for North Dakota, Rhode Island and Tennessee. ED approved Montana's standards and assessments system, while assigned Washington DC's assessment system as Approval Expected.
There were new letters and documents regarding Growth Models released last week, as well. Although these letters appeared on ED's website last week, they were actually released some
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months ago. These include ED's decision letter to Ohio (August 15, 2007) accepting its growth model proposal to be part of the ED's pilot growth model project, as well as an addendum to it's proposal. ED's letter to Pennsylvania rejected their growth model proposal in this April 5, 2007 letter.
On November 15, 2007, Secretary Spellings sent a letter to Rep. George Miller highlighting the Final Report on National Assessment of Title I released last week. As part of NCLB (Section
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