Hurdles for No Child Left Behind waiver
Duncan proposes way around gridlock in Congress
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With congressional Democrats and Republicans looking like they’re headed for more gridlock, this time on education, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan confirmed Monday that the Obama administration would permit states to seek waivers from the tightening screws of the No Child Left Behind law.
California could certainly benefit from waivers and would prefer its own accountability system as an alternative to the feds’. But it also could have a hard time persuading the feds to grant it a waiver.
The details of the waiver requirements won’t be published until next month; Paul Hefner,