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At Holt Elementary, students are practicing for an upcoming opera. They're also preparing for the annual core tests. The ones connected to "No Child Left Behind." Last year, they fell a bit short. This year, Principal John Zurbuchen doesn't want a repeat. "It's important to us in a lot of ways to determine, you know, how we are going to see ourselves next year."
Zurbuchen, faculty and parents will spend a couple of nights this week knocking on doors, talking with parents about the test, telling them to make sure the children prepare, get plenty of rest, eat a good breakfast and show up.
