"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Congress Delays Education Funding Decisions: Short-Term Measure Funds Government Into March, Ensures Greater Role for Republicans in Negotiations; (2) "Implementing Graduation Counts": NGA Report Finds Forty-Eight States on Track to Use a Common Formula to Report High School Graduation Rates for Class of 2011; (3) "Slow and Uneven Progress In Narrowing Gaps": New Report Examines State Test Score Trends, Finds States Have Long Way to Go in Closing Achievement Gaps; and (4) 2011 State of the State Addresses: New Hampshire and New York Serve as Contrasting Case Studies of Recession's Effects. (Contains 1 footnote.)