By ELIZABETH LEWIS
Daily Press Staff Writer
The school grade reports for the 2011-2012 school year were presented at the Artesia Public Schools board meeting on Monday night.
For the most part, the schools improved since previous years and continue to score higher than the state average scores. The New Mexico Public Education Department provided the scores online on Monday afternoon. … For the rest of the story, subscribe in print and on the web.
School Grading is part of a state and federal statute that mandates accountability for all public schools that started being used in the 2010-2011 school year, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) enacted in 1965, which was reauthorized in 2001 as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), requires schools to show annual improvement in mathematics and reading.
