Virginia Earns Exemption from No Child Left Behind Provisions
Fairfax County Superintendent Jack Dale praises freedom from 'unrealistic and arbitrary standards'
Virginia schools have received an exemption from portions of No Child Left Behind after the U.S. Department of Education granted a waiver allowing the state to set its own goals for tightening the achievement gap, albeit within certain perameters, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia Wright announced Friday. The federal government approved a waiver for Virginia, along with four other states, that allows the state to put forth its plan to cut the achievement gap by 50 percent overall and within each student subgroup* within six years. The waiver exempts Virginia systems from NCLB's requirement to close the gap among all students by 2014. "Virginia schools and school divisions can now focus their energy and resources on …
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