Here We Go: Duncan Siezes Control of the Nation’s Schools With Decision to Overide NCLB | Scathing Purple Musings

Here We Go: Duncan Siezes Control of the Nation’s Schools With Decision to Overide NCLB | Scathing Purple Musings

Here We Go: Duncan Siezes Control of the Nation’s Schools With Decision to Overide NCLB

by Bob Sikes

With Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan long on record of saying that NCLB was “a slow-motion train wreck,” he acted last night. From the New York Times:

…..He is waiving the law’s proficiency requirements for states that have adopted their own testing and accountability programs and are making other strides toward better schools, he said.

The administration’s plan amounts to the most sweeping use of executive authority to rewrite federal education law since Washington expanded its involvement in education in the 1960s.

Conservatives said it could inflame relations with Republicans in the House who want to reduce,