From Today's
Chicago Tribune:
No Child Left Behind rules could be relaxed
Education chief hints test policy to change
By Jodi S. Cohen, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporters Darnell Little, Tracy Dell'Angela and Diane Rado contributed to this report
Published April 8, 2005
In what could lead to broad changes in the Bush administration's education reforms, federal officials said Thursday they are open to relaxing requirements for states that show a commitment to improve.
The plan, outlined Thursday during a meeting between Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and state school chiefs, may help defuse a growing rebellion against No Child Left Behind, a law criticized as unfunded and an intrusion into state control. (Emphasis Added)
Here's a LINK To the full article.
Anyone else see a white flag here?
Sounds like the heat is finally starting to drive them out of the kitchen, so to speak.
However, they did TRY to save face:
Education officials are adamant that the cornerstone of the law--having all students reading and doing math at grade level by 2014--will not change.
But, among other things, Spellings' policy shift could make it easier for school districts to pass state tests under the 2002 law by increasing the number of students who can take a modified test because of disabilities.
No matter how they try to spin this, though, its a full scale Retreat....Another crack in the republican facade.
Keep holding their feet to the fire!