Woman Not Allowed To Donate Pagan Books To Son's School - Winston-Salem News Story - WXII The Triad . A North Carolina mother says her son's school is refusing books supportive of her pagan beliefs after last month offering Bibles. Apparently Bibles had been handed out earlier by the Gideons. This link has a fuller story. Is there a line to be drawn? Do we take one set of sacred texts and not the other? Should there be a difference for religious texts taken at the three school levels? Having just worked on a collection development policy, I know that we want to make sure that books in the library are as fact based as possible. Is a Bible "Christian propoganda" as stated in the second link? I've never thought of the Bible as propoganda. Chick Tracts? yes. Bible? no. Wishing there was a list of the books she wanted to donate.

AYP measures the percentage of students making certain target scores on standardized tests in reading and math and graduation rates -- regardless of students' growth. For example, if a student grows two grade levels during a school year but is still below the NCLB-set bar, his scores count against the school’s AYP rating. via With No Child Left Behind Overhaul Stalled, More Schools 'Failing' . Another snip: "Everyone knew this day was coming, and now it is upon us, and we need to have an open, honest debate about the consequences of a law that will label a majority of our schools as failing," Justin Hamilton, press secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, said in an email. I honestly don't know how this is supposed to get better. We keep throwing money into schools in low income areas and I do believe that helps but obviously, it doesn't help enough to change deeply seeded needs and issues. The fact of the matter is that many, many students are showi...