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Warming up to an NCLB waiver

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Fed comes calling; State Board softens opposition

Posted on 1/12/12 • Categorized as Achievement Gap, Advocacy organizations, Common Core standards, Evaluations, State Board of Education, Turning around failing schools

By Kathryn Baron

John and Kathy co-wrote this post from Sacramento.

For the second time in as many months, the acting Assistant Secretary of Education came to California to call on the State Board of Education to apply for a waiver from most of the requirements and penalties of the No Child Left Behind law. All but ten states have either formally applied for a waiver or indicated they would in the next round. California is the only one of the ten that Michael Yudin has visited.

“Our effort here is to release the pressure valve of No Child Left Behind,” Yudin told the State Board on Wednesday, noting that 3,900 schools in California already face sanctions under NCLB’s Program Improvement designation. “We are creating the opportunity to create space