90% of WA districts fail AYP

8/27/14 3:22 PM EDT

Nearly 90 percent of schools in Washington state aren't making adequate yearly progress under No Child Left Behind, the state announced today. 
Out of 1,916 schools, 1,401 are under some phase of required improvement under No Child Left Behind. Almost 30 percent of those schools have been identified for major restructuring. Their options include replacing almost all of the school's staff or having the state or an outside entity take over the school.
The numbers aren't dramatically different from last year, but state Superintendent Randy Dorn said Washington has to look at the results through a different lens. After the Education Department pulled Washington state's waiver from No Child Left Behind earlier this year, the state now must accommodate some of the more onerous provisions of the law in the coming school year, including paying for transfers to other public schools and tutoring.
In recent months, Dorn asked federal officials if the state could avoid sending notices home to parents that their child's school was failing. The Education Department rejected that request. 
But the Evergreen State got a small reprieve. The department gave the state a “limited one-year waiver” of a requirement forcing districts to provide parents of students attending Title I schools with notice of public school choice options at least two weeks before the start of the school year.