Test them, test them and then…test them again: The Federal Waiver is NOT the solution.
Earlier today, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Governor Dannel Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor announce that Connecticut would be one of the states receiving a waiver from the “No Child Left Behind” Act.
And there was much rejoicing.
You’d think Connecticut had won the lottery or something.
The Governor even said “Quite simply, a waiver is a profound recognition that what we achieved over the last few weeks, that is real standards of accountability combined with a turnaround plan for struggling schools is the recipe we need to close the nation’s largest achievement gap.”
But the real problem is that our elected officials either don’t understand or don’t care that
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