RALEIGH – North Carolina political and education leaders held a news conference Thursday to release state test scores and accountability outcomes for the 2003-04 school year. This has become an annual event in Raleigh, usually in August or early September, as the official ABCs of Public Education results are released for each public-school district in the state (some of which typically let preliminary results trickle out if they look particularly good). In the past, my staff and I have paid a great deal of attention to this announcement. Starting just a couple of years after the program started in the...
