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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.