For many years the educational establishment has used metrics like money spent per student or the number of teachers with advanced degrees to evaluate our K-12 schools.

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And so it's been one of our challenges to insure that we have highly-qualified teachers, and we have the right kind of courses and student support structures so that we could begin to bring students to standards to meet the No Child Left Behind Act.

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