No Child Left Behind Waivers Granted To 33 U.S. States, Some With Strings Attached

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By Thursday, the Obama administration will have waived 32 states and Washington, D.C. from No Child Left Behind -- sort of. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is gearing up to announce that Arizona, Washington, D.C., Oregon, South Carolina, Kansas, Michigan, and Mississippi are now exempt from No Child Left Behind's rigorous test requirements through the administration's waivers. In a Wednesday call with reporters, Duncan called the process "a nationwide bipartisan movement toward next-generation education reform." But eight of the 32 NCLB waivers granted to states are condi.... more