States to feds: Get us out of 'No Child Left Behind'
PrintSince the reauthorization of the current education law -- No Child Left Behind -- is being delayed in Congress, more and more states are begging the Obama education department to grant them waivers from what are increasingly difficult standards to achieve . Over time, NCLB standards get more and more rigorous. Every year more and more schools are failing those standards. And rather than admit that public schools around the country are failing to teach reading and math, the state education authorities are asking Education Secretary Arne Duncan to let them out of the law. "States have complained that escalating benchmarks for pupil performance in the current version of the law — described by Duncan as a “slow-motion train wreck” — would force them to classify hundreds of additional schools
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