Federal Targets Harder to Reach for NH Schools

The state's latest report on school performance shows an increasing number are not making sufficient progress under the federal education law - No Child Left Behind. The new test results do contain some good news - seven high schools that had been listed as in need of improvement worked their way off that list.

But the state has one school in Farmington that has failed to make adequate yearly progress four years in a row. Federal law requires what it calls corrective action, including the option of a state takeover. Deb Wiswell, head of the state's bureau of accountability, spoke with NHPR's Jon Greenberg. Wiswell emphasizes that state law prohibits direct state control over a local school.