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Obama administration’s NCLB waivers and strong-arm tactics
- 08-09-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Obama administration officials said today that they are moving forward with a program to grant states waivers from key provisions of the No Child Left Behind law, but only to those states “willing to embrace education reform” — meaning Obama-style education reform. Melody Barnes, director of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reporters on a conference call that NCLB was fundamentally flawed and that states were begging for relief because Congress had failed to fix it. Still, as flawed as it is, they said that any relief will only go to states that accept the administration’s version of reform, which includes using standardized test scores to measure “student growth” for the purposes of evaluating schools and teachers. (more...)
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