Most Danville schools beat benchmarks

 

TILTON – At 7:30 Wednesday morning, some teachers at Southwest Elementary School screamed. Others hugged and cried.

They were celebrating the latest high-stakes standardized test scores that showed the school had met and exceeded Illinois learning standards in 2008, something it fell short of doing the year before.

 

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