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The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is a United States Act of Congress that came about as wide public concern about the state of education.
Read More at Wikipedia ›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, 11 states have been given waivers so far.Officials say 26 states and Washington, D.C., applied for flexibility in this round.The waivers are a stopgap measure until Congress can rewrite the decade-old law, which has been up for renewal since 2007. Federal lawmakers agree the law needs to be changed, but they've bickered over how to do that....The Associated Press has learned that President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict requirements of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law. T...
The Education Department says more than half of all states have applied by this week's new deadline to be freed from the strenuous requirements of the Bush-era No Ch...
President Obama has mistaken bipartisan dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind (NCLB) for a mandate to unilaterally re-write federal education law. This was evide...
WASHINGTON -- Decrying the state of American education, President Obama on Friday said states will get unprecedented freedom to waive basic elements of the sweeping ...
An outline of a plan by two senators to rework the education law known as No Child Left Behind would put more control over schools in the hands of states.Democratic ...
An outline of a plan by two senators to rework the education law known as No Child Left Behind would put more control over schools in the hands of states.Democratic ...
A majority of states intend to take President Barack Obama up on his offer to let them get around unpopular requirements in the "No Child Left Behind" education law,...
By almost any measure, Norma Butler Bossard Elementary is a top performing school in Miami: It has consistently been rated an 'A' by the state, and students have ach...
Ten states now have President Barack Obama's OK to scrap one of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education — that all students measure up in read...
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators pledged Wednesday to work together to revamp the federal No Child Left Behind education law, a day after President Barack Obama c...
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Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, welcoming scrutiny of the private equ...
Shifting from the economy to education, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is proposing a voucher-style system that could significantly alter the public s...
U.S. eighth-graders made modest gains on the latest national science exam, but more than two-thirds still lacked a solid grasp of science facts, according to data re...
President Obama on Thursday allowed 10 states to miss an approaching deadline under the No Child Left Behind law, after the states struggled to meet the proficiency ...
President Barack Obama on Thursday declared that 10 states are free from the No Child Left Behind law, allowing them to scrap some of the most rigorous and unpopular...
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