[net-gold] Overriding a Key Education Law

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Overriding a Key Education Law
By SAM DILLON
Published: August 8, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/education/08educ.html

Overriding a Key Education Law
By SAM DILLON
Published: August 8, 2011

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
has announced that he will unilaterally
override the centerpiece requirement of
the No Child Left Behind school
accountability law, that 100 percent of
students be proficient in math and
reading by 2014.

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Alex Brandon/Associated Press
Arne Duncan, secretary of education,
in 2009. He said the No Child Left Behind
law was hurting efforts to improve schools.

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Times Topics: No Child Left Behind Act | Arne Duncan

Mr. Duncan told reporters that he was
acting because Congress had failed to
rewrite the Bush-era law, which he
called a slow-motion train wreck.
He is waiving the law's proficiency
requirements for states that have
adopted their own testing and
accountability programs and are making
other strides toward better schools,
he said.

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The administration's plan amounts to
the most sweeping use of executive
authority to rewrite federal education
law since Washington expanded its
involvement in education in the 1960s.
Conservatives said it could inflame
relations with Republicans in the House
who want to reduce, not expand, the
federal footprint in education. But
Mr. Duncan and White House officials
described their plan as offering crucial
relief to state and local educators as
the No Child law, which President
George W. Bush signed in 2002, comes
into increasing conflict with more recent
efforts to raise academic standards.

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The law made its focus the use of
standardized test scores in schools,
particularly those serving minority
students.

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I can't overemphasize how loud the outcry
is for us to do something right now,
Mr. Duncan told reporters on Friday in
a conference call that he said could not
be reported until midnight Sunday.

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Melody Barnes, director of President
Obama's White House Domestic Policy
Council, who joined Mr. Duncan in the
announcement, said that all states would
be encouraged to apply for waivers from
the law's accountability provisions,
but that only states the administration
believed were carrying out ambitious
school improvement initiatives would get
them.

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This is not a pass on accountability,
Ms. Barnes said. There will be a high
bar for states seeking flexibility within
the law.?

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Under the current law, every school is given
the equivalent of a pass-fail report card
each year, an evaluation that administration
officials say fails to differentiate among
chaotic schools in chronic failure, schools
that are helping low-scoring students improve,
and high-performing suburban schools that
nonetheless appear to be neglecting some
low-scoring students.

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A version of this article appeared
in print on August 8, 2011, on
page A12 of the New York edition
with the headline:

Overriding a Key Education Law.

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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