Ed. Dept. Chided on Graduation Oversight.

The article focuses on a report by the Department of Education's Office of Inspector General (IG) on education in Washington. The report says that the goal of ensuring the accuracy of states' graduation data would be closer to reality if the Department of Education had been more forceful in implementing provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. The report documents how department officials, in the view of the IG's office, could have done more to improve the quality of states' graduation data.