Parents Across America Rejects Arne Duncan’s “Waiver” Proposal
Influential school advocacy group, Parents Across America, today rejected Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s controversial waiver proposal.
While Parents Across America (PAA) agrees that No Child Left Behind is an unrealistic, rigid and punitive law, the waivers that Duncan has now proposed are likely to be equally bad, if not worse. The Department of Education could force more states to adopt the Common Core Curriculum thus continuing to ignore the fact that it is illegal for the federal government to impose a national curriculum. The proposal is also likely to expand the destructive agenda of over-testing, school closings, and privatization, despite the fact that these policies have no scientific evidence to