The state school board will not be asked to reconsider its decision to adopt Common Core academic standards, but a legislative committee approved two measures Wednesday making it clear lawmakers still have concerns....

The Gates agenda is an intellectual cousin of the Bush Administration's 2002 No Child Left Behind law, which required all public schools—though not individual teachers—to make "adequate yearly progress" on student test scores. Some opponents of No Child Left Behind questioned its faith in data; are scores too narrow a gauge of how well kids are learning?