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Ed. Dept. Gears Up to Oversee NCLB Waivers
Education Week
Now that more than half the country is operating with waivers of key mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education must turn to overseeing a hodgepodge of 34 different state accountability systems and holding states to the promises they made to win the new flexibility. As the school year begins, states are preparing to provide their first evidence that they are implementing their plans as proposed--and are already asking federal officials if they can tweak their proposals.
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