No Child Left Behind Gets A Revamp
Elizabeth Shogren:
The Obama administration is giving school districts a waiver from some mandates of the No Child Left Behind education law.
The law requires schools to reach higher goals each year, and by 2014, it demands that every student be graded proficient in reading and math. The administration, which has repeatedly called on Congress to rewrite the legislation, says the law is overly punitive.
In an announcement on Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan opened the door for states to avoid the penalties and deadlines of the current No Child Left Behind Law.
States have long been clamoring for changes to the law. Its requirements have gotten so strict that Duncan says soon more than 80 percent of the nation's schools could be failing them.
June Atkinson, the state superintendent of public instruction in North Carolina, says the law's all-or-nothing approach just doesn't work.
PBS NewsHour has more.
Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 9, 2011 8:04 PM
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