I'm calling BS here. The article on NHJ would have had the failure rate around 50% or higher based on how poorly the students performed. The school literally cannot accommodate so many students failing a grade level and being held back.

Further, no child left behind punished schools based on standardized test scores, not the artificially inflated grades the students were getting.

Instead, they are getting 52k per pupil to not even grade homework? That's definitely not a consequence of no child left behind.