Waivers
Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny:
President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned.
Tennessee is one of them.
February 9th, 2012 at 11:28 am
No Child Left Behind was a poorly thought out program in the first place. I live in CO, one of the states receiving a waiver. I have a friend who is a teacher at a charter school. The school population is low enough per grade that the statistics required for acceptable marks just aren’t feasible, specifically the requirement of a percentage of a grade improving year over year. When there are only 100 students in a grade and 2 are sub-par it’s pretty hard to have a 5% improvement without cutting kids into little bits. Which apparently, they frown on.
February 9th, 2012 at 11:32 am
Then get rid of it lawfully instead of excepting people based on political pull or the fact they can’t comply.
February 9th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
And if you look at California and what huge sums are spent on students and education, it becomes quite clear that it’s not about money.
February 9th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
When I started my College Degree search to become a Teacher many moons ago, one of my classes covered “Leave Every Child Behind.” They had set up the Law that, when it when into effect, a kid in First Grade could Graduate before they would start shutting down schools and firing Teachers. 12 years to get their act together. Now that the time for the Bad Apples to be thrown out of the Barrel is upon us, ‘Oops! You really want us to enforce the Law that we wrote? Silly Voter. Fire Union Teachers-for-Life in an Election Year? Make the State Legislature actually spend Money on Schools instead of School Administrators? Silly Voter.”
So how many Billions have been spent by the Federales so that we’ve reached the point that nothing has changed?
February 9th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
It’s a good time to remind people that while the left typically blames Bush for the failings of ‘No Child Left Behind’, The bill was actually one of Teddy Kennedy’s babies… and was mostly a peace offering to the left after the Florida election cluster—-.
February 9th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Let’s give ALL states a waiver. And then shut down the Department of Education, and stop funding grade schools with federal taxes.
February 9th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
With a NCLB waiver, I wonder what Nashville schools will blame poor performance on now?
All I ever hear from teachers is how NCLB is both awful and the only reason the school system is such a joke.
February 9th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Ut oh, now they’ll have to scramble to find something new to blame!
February 9th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
This way he guarantees support from those groups. After-all, if they stop supporting him, he can remove their waver.
February 10th, 2012 at 9:48 am
The first sign of tyranny ? Wake up ! man .There were signs of tyranny from the start of this administration beginning with voter intimidation. Tyranny ? Can you say homeland security,TSA,Forced busing,social economics,IRS,etc.,? This comment is a trip back in time.How much more are we going to cede in the coming years ?