nbc5i.com - News - TEA May Lose Out On Federal Funding

nbc5i.com - News - TEA May Lose Out On Federal Funding: "AUSTIN, Texas -- The U.S. Department of Education may withhold as much as $7 million dollars from President George W. Bush's home state.

Federal officials say the Texas Education Agency has failed to tell parents whether schools performed up to standards under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Parents won't be able to request transfers to move their children from poorly performing schools until the information is released, and the funding may be withheld until then.

State education officials said they may not have final results until February.

A TEA official said the school report cards were delayed because federal education officials did not approve the state's plan for assessing progress until the end of July.

Much of the state's plan was scrapped because it didn't meet the law's requirements.

Under Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, schools must demonstrate year-to-year progress. Students at schools that miss performance benchmarks two years in a row are eligible to transfer to a different school.

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