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Ashley Hayes ReportingUtah public schools aren't testing well at the state or federal level.
New report cards find more schools need assistance, yet school officials say there aren't enough resources to fix the problems.
Combining the state's list and No Child Left Behind, we have several pages of schools that failed to make certain requirements.
The State says 100 public schools need assistance. That's three times as many as last year's 34 schools.
The Utah Board of Education fully anticipated this would happen when it raised state standards last year.
The board felt it was best to single out those schools needing help rather than let them struggle to barely make requirements.
The state standards come from The Utah Performance Assessment System for Students, or U-PASS, which requires 80 percent of students test well in language arts, math, and science, or make progress under a specified formula.
No Child Left Behind reports were also released yesterday. Even though acheivement standards didn't change from last year, more Utah schools failed those requirements too.
This year 18 percent of Utah schools failed, as opposed to last year's 13 percent that didn't make enough yearly progress.
No Child Left Behind mandates all public school children must be able to read and do math well by 2014.
Utah government and school leaders say No Child Left Behind is underfunded and unrealistic.
