"It is a chilling reminder of a violent past that everyone in the community hoped we had left behind, " they added.

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But with anti-testing backlash becoming more organized in the past year, since the 10th anniversary of the federal No Child Left Behind Act mandated testing, administrators have found themselves fielding more questions.

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There has been a decline in the time that elementary teachers spend on science over the past six years under the No Child Left Behind law, Eberle said.

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