Washington Post on “dangerous school” designation

In an in-depth article posted today, Washington Post Staff Writer Nelson Hernandez examines: ‘No Child’ Data on Violence Skewed: Each State Defines ‘Dangerous School’:

A little-publicized provision of the No Child Left Behind Act requiring states to identify “persistently dangerous schools” is hampered by widespread underreporting of violent incidents and by major differences among the states in defining unsafe campuses, several audits say. Out of about 94,000 schools in the United States, only 46 were designated as persistently dangerous in the past school year.