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Date Added: July 02, 2008 01:20:03 AM
Less than 9 percent of a district's student body can impact the entire system for the worse, and it may not seem all that fair - just ask educators at the School District of Beloit, which failed to make the adequate yearly progress standards this spring because of the special education population.

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