Ten States Get Waivers From ‘No Child Left Behind’

The No Child Left Behind was not a good law. But, then I think education should be left up to the states. But the problem is that it is a federal law enacted by congress. How does the executive branch inssue waivers to circumvent a fedral law?

Obama is doing for public education what he had done for the national debt.

Time to stop throwing more money at education. We are graduating students now that can not read, write or add and subtract.

“I have yet to see any critic of spending for education explain how cutting pay and benefits will attract better, more qualified teachers.”

Democrats have owned education for FIFTY years in this country. Why don’t you enlighten us as to some of Democrats successes at attracting better, more qualified teachers….if you can find one.

@PA Voter, see what JameCBuilder says. Getting the fed out of creating mandates, getting rid of the DOE and it’s bureaucracy, and limiting the power of unions, would release vasts amounts of money for each individual state to invest in education in ways that would best serve their own citizens.The reason students do so poorly now is that very few teachers are allowed to exceed at what they do. All the above pretend to be for the teacher and yet they create limits which allow the bad teachers to be rewarded equally to good teachers. Teachers are discouraged from finding ways to get their students to reach or exceed their abilities, by forcing them to cater to the lowest common denominator. That dumbs down the intelligent and the average students, and denies the slower students the kind of personal attention they need. The current system has been proven to not work, NCLB was just another step backwards by trying to maintain a top-down governmental system by pretending to give the states more control. It doesn’t work for anyone, anywhere.

No matter what the history or cause, we now have teachers and unions more in tune with their own interests than the students. There still are some individual heroes, however. God knows how they hold on.

@Freedom – Time to STOP throwing money at education? When has money EVER been thrown at education? In my state, 4 billion was just taken away from Education!

Not ALL teachers in this country are unionized! For every bad teacher, you’ve go 10 good teachers. I just want to make a decent living doing something I love. Some of us do the best we can with VERY limited resources, because NO ONE in this country wants to INVEST in education! Bottom line: people don’t want to pay for education unless it’s for their child. Someone has to care for our future, because no one else is.

Here’s a tip – Unless you’re in the classroom EVERYDAY, quit making judgements on things you don’t understand. EDUCATION IS NOT AN ASSEMBLY LINE! Every child is different!

This is an odd decision.
If NCLB is a bad idea then get rid of it and grant waivers to all of the States.
Why only 10 States?
If the federal government wants to give the States leeway in how they track performance then that’s great and is how it should be anyway. Cut 80% out of the Department of Education, let the States run education without federal interference and give us some much needed federal spending cuts.

Maybe this is political pandering.

The US spends more money per child on education, but everyone wants to spend more, were is ALL the money going, certainly not to educate . Eliminate the Dept.of Education and let the states deal with education.

Wasn’t it Georga where the teachers had parties where they corrected tests? Then they received more money because they were so effective! Now the system is rewarded for cheating!!! States should be penalized if there is evidence of cheating!

In Washingon DC, taxpayers spend up to $35,000 per student per year and many are illiterate when they graduate, if they don’t drop out first. Those schools supply students with every meal and snack, after school programs, and self-esteem classes. What they don’t do is effectively teach basics like reading, writing, arithmetic, and critical thinking. Thanks to liberals who run our schools, our public education system has become a tragic and extremely expensive joke.

Obama (and all progressives) know that their power comes from the “downtrodden”. The only way they can keep and retain power is to make sure that there are enough “downtrodden” to vote for them.

Democrats desire control and power. They understand that power comes from votes. Votes can be bought with gifts (EBT cards, food stamps, etc.) from the public treasury. Their ability to stay in power is directly related to how much they can destroy the economy and increase the numbers of those who depend on government handouts for survival.

If the general public was educated, self-sufficient and prosperous, who would be left to vote democrat?

I have a daughter who teaches 2nd grade in Florida. She says the NCLB has been the worst program ever! It causes even more pressure and more paperwork for her already hectic schedule. I’m not an Obama fan but I applaud his modification of this ridiculous program by Bush.

Posted by: smoking cures cancer | February 9, 2012, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

Didn’t realize Detroit was run by Republicans.

The republican party and the democrat party both do things in order to gain and maintain power. The Department of Education is run by people. People generally do not want to fail. Being shut down feels like failure, so we can expect that the DoE will take action to sell the idea of the necessity of its existence, similar to every single Union, government entity/office, and lobby group. The answer is not in government mandates. The answer is in local communities supporting their childrens teachers. Use a voucher system. Let parents choose where their children go to school. I can’t say for sure that we’ve moved far enough beyond atrocious discrimination tendencies for that to work into an equitable education system, but what the heck? If we put ourselves right back into the 60s, wouldn’t that mean we’d get to eventually go through the 80s again? That was a fun decade!