Texas to apply for federal waiver from No Child Left Behind

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6. Texas Backs Away From No Child Left Behind Law, Its Own Bush-Endorsed Creation

Huffington Post 9/8/12

Texas Backs Away From No Child Left Behind Law, Its Own Bush-Endorsed Creation

Texas, the state that launched school accountability as an experiment, has applied to untangle itself from parts of the federal No Child Left Behind mandate, the same law that experiment eventually yielded.

The deadline was Thursday for states to take President Barack Obama's administration up on its offer to waive parts of the law in exchange for implementing elements of the White House's education agenda. Texas announced that, like at least 40 other states, it wanted out, too.

"NCLB’s reauthorization in a timely manner has created an obsolete system that does not adequately reflect the accomplishments of the state’s schools," the state's education chief Michael Williams wrote in an open letter Thursday. By the law's definition, in Texas 47.8 percent of schools -- and 27.6 percent of its school districts -- made "adequate yearly progress" this year.

Texas under republican control, has always only paid lip service to educating kids for free. They see education as an expense - bottom line. Something to cut. Why educate the masses?

I would like to think that Democrats see education as a huge investment in our future. Can't say that I ever liked the NCLB law because it was more about getting out the sticks, than really improving schools or kids education.

Yes it is ironic that Texas is once again being saved by the Obama administration. And Perry and his cronies will be blaming him all the way to the bank.