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No ESEA Waiver for Wyoming Until They Toe Federal Line | Truth in American Education

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No ESEA Waiver for Wyoming Until They Toe Federal Line

By Shane Vander Hart
state-flag-wyomingThe Casper Star Tribune released a document they received indicating that Wyoming would not receive an ESEA waiver.  In a memo from the Wyoming Department of Education that was sent to local school administration they outline several of the reasons:
Several challenges prevent Wyoming’s waiver approval. One is the state’s inability to develop a method to calculate graduation rates consistent with the Wyoming Accountability in Education Act but also conforming to federal requirements. According to the Governor’s education policy advisor: “[A]bsolutely no change to the Wyoming accountability model may be undertaken in order to satisfy the feds in exchange for a (sic) NCLB waiver.”
Another significant challenge is that state statutes do not allow for the administration of a uniform assessment tool such as those being developed by SBAC and PARCC as those tools 
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