Kline: No Response from Ed. Department on Waiver Letter
Apparently, the U.S. Department of Education is not making Adequate Progress on its response to the Republican leaders on the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
As I'm sure you'll remember, Rep. John Kline, the chairman of the committee, sent a letter last week to the department asking for details, by July 1, of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's plan to give states wiggle room on some unspecified parts of the No Child Left Behind Act, in exchange for adopting certain yet unspecified "reforms."
That July 1 deadline has come and gone and, apparently, Kline hasn't heard back from the department yet, according to this news release.
Kline's staff also pointed reporters to a June 28 report from the Congressional Research Service, the non-partisan research arm of Congress. CRS found that the Secretary has the authority to waive major portions of the NCLB law, including on accountability, standards, school choice, the 2014 deadline, and other hot-button parts of the
