Tag: waivers

  The No Child Left Behind Act expired in 2007, five years after its enactment, but has remained intact in the absence of a replacement law. The Department of Education has begun granting waivers to most of the 50 states, releasing them from some unattainable annual targets while waiting for Congress to fix the law.

Policymakers and practitioners alike express concern that NCLB’s new waiver requirements will overshadow the individual needs of historically disadvantaged students and draw attention away from the achievement gap (Dervarics, 2011; Fensterwald, 2011; Stokes, 2012). The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), which is the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of