Obama Administration Announces Plan to Grant Waivers to No Child Left Behind In Exchange for “Reform”
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The Education Department plans to grant waivers for the No Child Left Behind law to states and school districts that “embrace reform.” This bypasses Congressional reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind law, and allows states and districts to get out from under the onerous burdens of the law, which has a deadline for 100% proficiency in reading and math by 2013-14, and which would close down schools that did not comply.
States can avoid the No Child Left Behind law’s 2014 deadline for achieving 100 percent proficiency