Posts Tagged ‘No Child’

Florida will seek No Child Left Behind waiver

TALLAHASSEE Florida will be among the states seeking to opt out of No Child Left Behind requirements for public schools. State Department of Education spokeswoman Cheryl Etters said the state will seek a waiver. President Barack Obama announced the waiver program Friday. Etters said details of the waiver request havent yet been worked out as [...]

Transfers rare under ‘No Child’ law

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – More than 120,000 children are eligible to transfer from their struggling Connecticut schools to better schools this fall, but there’s no mass exodus in the making. Many parents are finding that even when they try to transfer their children under provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law, neighboring schools [...]