The federal No Child Left Behind law appears to be leaving more Kentucky schools behind — especially in Jefferson County.
For the third straight year, fewer Kentucky public schools met all their reading and math goals required by the federal accountability law, according to data released Wednesday by the Kentucky Department of 
Sixty percent of the state's 1,158 public schools met all their goals — down from 71 percent last year and 78 percent in 2007.
The drop is more severe in Jefferson County Public Schools, where just 37 of the district's 133 schools met all their goals (28 percent), compared with 44 percent last year.
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