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Feds: 88 percent of Washington schools failing

Eighty-eight percent of Washington state schools are failing, according to the federal government. 

For months, school districts have been telling KIRO 7 that would be the case but student test results just released by the state superintendent confirm it.
              
Superintendent Randy Dorn made the announcement at the state Capitol Wednesday.  Dorn says Washington is the only state in the country that lost its No Child Left Behind waiver, which means every student in every school regardless of their special needs, has to meet grade level standards.  That didn't happen in nearly 2,000 of our schools.
 
"To explain that to parents, that they may have just gotten a letter in May that their kid was going to an exemplary school that got honored by the state superintendent and state school board and then they get a letter in the mail that said they're a failing school," is difficult, Dorn says.
 
Coming up at 5 p.m. on KIRO 7 Eyewitness News, reporter Joanna Small spoke with a mother at one of the state's worst performing schools by the federal standard.  That mother tells us just how confusing receiving that kind of letter has been.

Here is the list of Washington school districts that did not meet federal standards:

Auburn School District
Bainbridge Island School District
Bellevue School District
Bethel School District
Carbonado School District
Clover Park School District
Dieringer School District
Eatonville School District
Enumclaw School District
Federal Way School District
Fife School District
Franklin Pierce School District
Highline School District
Issaquah School District
Kent School District
Lake Washington School District
Mercer Island School District
Northshore School District
Orting School District
Peninsula School District
Puyallup School District
Renton School District
Riverview School District
Seattle Public Schools
Shoreline School District
Snoqualmie Valley School District
Steilacoom Hist. School District
Sumner School District
Tacoma School District
Tahoma School District
Tukwila School District
University Place School District
Vashon Island School District
White River School District

This is a list of all the Seattle schools that did not meet the federal standards:

Adams Elementary School
Aki Kurose Middle School
Alki Elementary School
APP at Lincoln
Arbor Heights Elementary School
B F Day Elementary School
Bailey Gatzert Elementary School
Ballard High School
Beacon Hill International School
Broadview-Thomson K-8 School
Bryant Elementary School
Cascade Parent Partnership Program
Catharine Blaine K-8 School
Chief Sealth International High School
Cleveland High School
Concord International School
Daniel Bagley Elementary School
David T. Denny International School
Dearborn Park Elementary School
Dunlap Elementary School
Eckstein Middle School
Emerson Elementary School
Franklin High School
Frantz Coe Elementary School
Garfield High School
Gatewood Elementary School
Graham Hill Elementary School
Green Lake Elementary School
Greenwood Elementary School
Hamilton International Middle School
Hawthorne Elementary School
Highland Park Elementary School
Ingraham High School
Interagency Programs
Jane Addams K-8
John Hay Elementary School
John Muir Elementary School
John Rogers Elementary School
K-5 STEM at Boren
Kimball Elementary School
Lafayette Elementary School
Laurelhurst Elementary School
Lawton Elementary School
Leschi Elementary School
Lowell Elementary School
Loyal Heights Elementary School
Madison Middle School
Madrona K-8 School
Maple Elementary School
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
McClure Middle School
McDonald International Elementary
McGilvra Elementary School
Mercer Middle School
Middle College High School
Montlake Elementary School
Nathan Hale High School
North Beach Elementary School
Northgate Elementary School
Nova High School
Olympic Hills Elementary School
Olympic View Elementary School
Orca K-8 School
Pathfinder K-8 School
Pinehurst K-8 School
Private School Services
Queen Anne Elementary
Rainier Beach High School
Rainier View Elementary School
Roosevelt High School
Roxhill Elementary School
Sacajawea Elementary School
Salmon Bay K-8 School
Sanislo Elementary School
Schmitz Park Elementary School
Seattle World School
South Lake High School
South Shore K-8 School
Stevens Elementary School
The Center School
Thornton Creek Elementary School
Thurgood Marshall Elementary
Tops K-8 School
Van Asselt Elementary School
View Ridge Elementary School
Viewlands Elementary School
Washington Middle School
West Seattle Elementary School
West Seattle High School
West Woodland Elementary School
Whitman Middle School
Whittier Elementary School
Wing Luke Elementary School

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