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Obama to seek sweeping change in ‘No Child’ law
- 02-01-2010
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By Sam Dillon/New York Times
The Obama administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline for bringing every American child to academic proficiency. President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, shown last month, will seek to eliminate parts of the main education law that teachers and school boards find most objectionable. "This law must be completely overhauled. Enough is enough. Children are indeed humiliated and labeled failures through no fault of their own or their teachers." Educators who have been briefed by administration officials said the proposals for changes in the main law governing the federal role in public schools would eliminate or rework many of the provisions that teachers’ unions, associations of principals, school boards and other groups have found most objectionable. (more...)
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