WASHINGTON — The Bush administration sought to bolster its signature education law Tuesday.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced that among the proposed changes being made to the No Child Left Behind law is a new requirement that by the 2012-13 school year, all states would have to calculate their graduation rates in a uniform way.
States will be told to count graduates, in most cases, as students who leave on time and with a regular degree.
The administration’s proposed regulations would require schools to be judged not only on how the overall student body does but also on the percentage of minority students who graduate.
The regulations also call for school districts to demonstrate that they are doing all they can to notify parents of low-income students in struggling schools that free tutoring is available.
