Flexibility on No Child Left Behind

Education Department offers states permission to ignore No Child Left Behind until 2016, By Phillip Elliott, August 29, 2013, Star Tribune: “States can request permission to ignore parts of the No Child Left Behind education law through the spring of 2016, the Education Department said Thursday. The long-term offer underscores the intensive work states have already undertaken on school reforms in exchange for flexibility from Washington, as well as a dour outlook that Congress will take action to replace the outdated goals of No Child Left Behind. The law expired in 2007 and included goals now seen as overly ambitious…”