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States seek waivers from No Child Left Behind law
- 08-05-2011
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By Ben Wieder/Stateline
With an update to the No Child Left Behind Act stalled in Congress, an increasing number of states are asking to be exempted from requirements in the ten-year old education law. So far the results have been mixed. In June, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said he planned to provide “regulatory flexibility” to states on NCLB requirements because of the bottleneck in Congress. States have complained that escalating benchmarks for pupil performance in the current version of the law — described by Duncan as a “slow-motion train wreck” — would force them to classify hundreds of additional schools as unsatisfactory. Last week, Idaho was given permission by Duncan’s department to maintain the same proficiency targets in reading and math for a third straight year, the maximum allowable under the law, Education Week reports. But earlier in July, Montana was told that it could lose some of its $44 million in federal Title I education funds — tied to compliance with NCLB—if it maintained the same targets for a fourth straight year. (more...)
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