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This past week, the Associated Press published an interesting report about the No Child Left Behind Act- and the loophole it has. Apparently the implementation of this Act into schools across the nation is actually hurting school integration. The Act requires that each school meet certain standards every year for each ethnicity in order to aquire benefits such as funding, but the result has had a negative side effect. Apparently test scores of minority students are not being counted when reported. They are not being accounted so that the school can score better and not be negatively impacted by their low scoring children's performance. This is really awful considering that a lot of these children will probably fall throught the cracks because they will not receive the instruction they need. And how could the government be in the shadows about this? I am a bit weary, but it will be interesting to see what type of solution they try to implement and whether they will finally do away with the notorious No Child Left Behind Act, which seems to be leaving millions behind.