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Friday, June 17, 2011

Schools Matter: NSBA Calls for Universal Relief from AYP, NCLB's IED

Schools Matter: NSBA Calls for Universal Relief from AYP, NCLB's IED

NSBA Calls for Universal Relief from AYP, NCLB's IED

As Bryant points out, public schools cannot wait for Gates stooge, Arne Duncan, to figure out a massive extortion plan to insert the BRT's agenda. From HuffPo:
. . . .With so many delays in Congress to introduced and pass the ESEA reauthorization, the National School Boards Association is calling on Duncan and the Department of Education for flexibility now in NCLB to allow more financial resources to be used for the critical purpose of teaching and learning.
We need the regulatory relief this summer before school starts, instead of a new bureaucratic process that the Department of Education is purposing that could take many months to create. And as we need this as a matter of policy -- not state or school district case-by-case waivers. We specifically support suspension of additional sanctions under current AYP requirements, effective for the 2011-12 school year, so that schools currently facing sanctions would remain frozen; no