Are our schools failing?

Nearly every school in Washington is failing, at least according to the No Child Left Behind federal proficiency standards.

Soon, parents will be receiving letters from those school districts explaining the failing marks. With it they’ll also get a letter signed by 28 state superintendents who insist the standards and failure label are antiquated, punitive and wrong.

Superintendents and some parents insist the testing standards don’t account for other student and school achievement.

“We have kids that are succeeding and being labeled as failure; it’s very unfortunate and I don’t think it’s fai...