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A Case of Assessment Season Opt Out Bullying

April 10, 2016 By J.R. Wilson

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 […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments, SBAC Tagged With: Bullying, IAB, Interim Assessment Blcoks, NCLB, opt-out, PARCC, SBAC, W.Va. Code 18-2E-5, West Virginia

U.S. DOE Gives Oklahoma Its NCLB Waiver Back

November 25, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

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  It was taken from them after Oklahoma repealed Common Core.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 […]

Filed Under: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, ESEA Flexibility, NCLB, NCLB waiver, Oklahoma, PASS

Lessons from Iowa on Fighting for Local Control

July 26, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

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 […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: Heritage Foundation, Lindsey Burke, local control, NCLB, No Child Left Behind Waiver

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