L.A. mayor: Bypass states on No Child Left Behind education waivers - Washington Times

L.A. mayor: Bypass states on No Child Left Behind education waivers - Washington Times:

L.A. mayor: Bypass states on No Child Left Behind education waivers

By Ben Wolfgang

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The Washington Times

Friday, March 2, 2012

**FILE** Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

STORY TOPICS

• Politics
• Education
• Antonio Villaraigosa
• Barack Obama
• D.C.'S American University

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Speaking at an education roundtable at D.C.’sAmerican University, the second-term Democrat said he’d like to escape federal mandates associated with the decade-old education law, but the state of California currently has no plans to apply. California is one of about a dozen states that, thus far, have resisted the idea.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday called on the Obama administration to expand its No Child Left Behind waiver program to the individual district level in states that are still adhering to the federal education law.

“My hope is that … we also get waivers from NCLB, so we can innovate