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Interestingly, the Senate Education Chair for the reddest of states and the Senate Education Chair from the bluest states have co-authored an article that scrutinizes NCLB.

This unusual co-authorship (GOP Senator Margaret Dayton from Utah and Democratic Senator Tom Gaffey of Connecticut) demonstrates that there is something in NCLB for everyone to reject. One of the places where the article can be found is in the American Association of School Administrators' newsletter.

Read it here.

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 The Senate Site said...

From the article:

By digging, scrounging and sharing information, states discovered that extensive flexibility from federal guidelines had been granted by the U.S. Department of Education to some states while at the same time “waivers” were publicly dismissed by administration officials. Exceptions from federal rules granted to one state were arbitrarily denied to its neighbors without clear and consistent guidelines for those decisions. Plan amendments were often approved verbally; those approved in writing were buried deep within the Education Department’s website; and requests denied were not recorded at all due to a misguided notion of privacy protections for state education agencies cited by the department.

11/11/2007 1:39 AM  

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