Most parents requesting to opt out would be shook up and intimidated if they received the following letter and form. It likely would affect their judgment to the point they wouldn’t check facts for themselves. In this case, the parents let the school know their child was not to take the state assessment. The school […]
U.S. DOE Gives Oklahoma Its NCLB Waiver Back
The U.S. Department of Education announced yesterday that they gave Oklahoma its NCLB flexibility waiver back. It was taken from them after Oklahoma repealed Common Core. From their press release: In August, Oklahoma was unable to demonstrate that it had college- and career-ready standards in place, a key principle in ESEA flexibility, which is why the […]
Lessons from Iowa on Fighting for Local Control
Lindsey Burke of The Heritage Foundation had an op/ed published in Deseret News entitled “Lessons for Utah from Iowa: Fight for control of education.” She wrote: If the centralizing impact of the Obama education waivers wasn’t already clear, the recent decision by the U.S. Department of Education to issue its first waiver rejection to Iowa […]