8 States Get Waiver From No Child Left Behind.

[elleng]

Source: AP/NYT

Federal officials are granting another eight states flexibility from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a call with reporters Tuesday that he has approved waivers for Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island.

The Obama administration is granting waivers in exchange for promises from states to improve how they prepare and evaluate students. In all, 19 states have been given waivers so far.

Officials say 26 states and Washington, D.C., applied for flexibility. The remaining applicants can still receive waivers.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/05/29/us/ap-us-no-child-left-behind.html?hp

[LynneSin]

1. Thank god! Now we can finally teach our children

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Instead of training them to take standardized tests. I'm so glad Delaware is on the list. I think we'll see the grades in those states shoot up immensely after they ditch this overpriced piece of crap.

[elleng]

3. Yea Maryland and Delaware!

[LynneSin]

4. The system was setup so that schools would fail. It was cruel how it was done

because in the scoring it including children with learning disabilities - some who can only learn from non-traditional methods and not by standardized testings. But the NCLB system didn't accomadate for those type of kids which meant that even good schools could fail miserably under this program.

[elleng]

5. Of course.

And those are the kids my daughters teach, and one reason my younger daughter doesn't want to teach in a 'regular' school, but rather at home, and maybe in her own school.

[leftyohiolib]

2. yea ohio -

[may3rd]

9. the school systems are failing at any rate

I wonder where the funding will come from. The mayor of Cleveland said the city is almost ready to announce the budget cuts.
I wonder how the federal funding will now work into his equation




The Cleveland school board has not discussed publicly the amount of the tax increase it will seek, but is tentatively scheduled to take the two votes it needs at its June 12 and 26 meetings.


http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/05/cleveland_mayor_jackson_ohio_g.html

[Turbineguy]

6. So.....

does that mean that no child will be left behind in 8 more States?

If this keeps up we may end up with a good system.

[goclark]

7. "Children Left Behind"

I was an educator during the early years of " Leave The Kids In Need Behind" it was a terrible program.

If I'm not mistaken, one of the Bush brothers or cousins sold the tests -- so he got richer and the children were POORER,


Tried to search for the information but this is the closest I could get from Wikipedia ------

"...the older brother of Neil Bush , Marvin Bush , and Dorothy Bush Koch . ... His "A+ Plan" mandated standardized testing in Florida's public ."..

[gadjitfreek]

8. Don't applaud yet...

The system that is replacing it, Race to the Top, is a concerted effort to eliminate tenured master teachers and replace them with low-paid inexperienced teachers. The rating method (APPR) is junk science at best and is in no way designed to improve instruction.

[may3rd]

10. The burden of education will continue to fall on

the taxpayers in those systems that are in emergency levels

[goclark]

11. What a shame

In some cities in CA the once Public Schools have a Charter School on their campus.So, tenure and Unions for teachers will be a thing of the past.

Don't see any improvement in " Race to the Top" unless they are talking about Snails.