The Education Department has reviewed the student testing systems used by the states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to determine if they comply with the No Child Left Behind law.

• Full approval: Maryland, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia.

• Full approval with recommendations for improvement: Arizona, Delaware, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah.

• Approval expected, which means states must submit a plan to fix problems but face no immediate threat of withheld money: Alaska, Connecticut, Louisiana, Massachusetts.

• Pending approval, which means states could lose federal administrative money if they don’t fix their problems based on a revised plan: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

• Nonapproved, which means the plans were rejected and states may lose the maximum amount of administrative money: Maine and Nebraska.

By The Associated Press