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Dee Elementary School test scores up by nearly 40 percent

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 9:50pm

OGDEN -- Dee Elementary is moving up.

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17 Utah schools fail to meet testing standards

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 8:44am

SALT LAKE CITY — Seventeen low-income elementary schools in Utah are facing potential penalties after low test scores for two consecutive years.

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California test scores rise despite financial cutbacks

Diana Lambert, Phillip Reese The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 11:35am

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- It's a trend that would seem to defy conventional wisdom: As public school spending has declined in California in recent years, student achievement test scores have gone up.

Statewide, school districts spent 6 percent less from 2008 to 2010, but the percentage of second- to seventh-grade students scoring proficient on the state's standardized English test rose from 48 percent to 55 percent.

So, are educators finding ways to do more with less? Has student learning been largely unaffected by the spending cuts? The reviews are mixed.

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