Obama to outline No Child Left Behind relief for Michigan, other states

[mfcorey1]

President Obama today will outline how Michigan and other states can seek relief from one of the toughest provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law – the one requiring all students be proficient on state exams by 2014.

But states can only get waivers from the rule in exchange for implementing reforms that seek to close achievement gaps, adopt college and career-ready standards, require more accountability for schools and strengthen systems for evaluating teachers and administrators.

Senior administration officials said during a conference call today the waivers are necessary to fix major flaws in the 10-year-old law, because its inflexible rules will have a large number of schools identified as failing by 2014. They say the law has also become a barrier to state and local reforms.

http://www.freep.com/article/20110923/NEWS06/110923005/Obama-outline-No-Child-Left-Behind-relief-Michigan-other-states

[LWolf]

1. Correction:

States can only get waivers from the rule in exchange for adopting Obama/Duncan neoliberal privatization reforms which include more charters, and use student test scores to evaluate and pay teachers.

[mfcorey1]

2. President speaking now.