Schools Matter: Duncan's Extortion Plan for NCLB Waivers Faces Roadblock

Schools Matter: Duncan's Extortion Plan for NCLB Waivers Faces Roadblock

Duncan's Extortion Plan for NCLB Waivers Faces Roadblock

by Jim Horn

I was wondering if Congress would ever notice Gates and Broad carrying away K-12 education policy. After all, Team 2 (R) has its own group of oligarchs to pay homage to, and they will not stand by and see Team 1 (D) carve off all the good pieces of this multi-billion dollar goose called public schools. From the NY Times:

In a sharp rebuke to the Obama administration, the Republican chairman of the House education committee on Thursday challenged plans by the education secretary to override provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Law, and he said he would use a House rewrite of it this year to rein in the secretary’s influence on America’s schools.


Responding to Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s promise to grant states waivers to the education law’s most onerous provisions if Congress failed to rewrite it, the committee chairman,