{"id":3039,"date":"2011-11-15T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2011-11-15T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:04:29","slug":"florida-asks-for-exemption-on-nclb-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/11\/15\/florida-asks-for-exemption-on-nclb-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Asks For Exemption on NCLB Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/11\/NCLB.gif\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3044\" title=\"NCLB\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/11\/NCLB-300x199.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/11\/NCLB-300x199.gif 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/11\/NCLB-220x145.gif 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/11\/NCLB.gif 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Florida is one of 11 states that asked the U.S. Department of Education <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/jp\/florida-releases-its-no-child-left-behind-waiver-request\/\">to waive<\/a> federal <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/no-child-left-behind\/\">No Child Left Behind<\/a> provisions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/23\/what-new-no-child-left-behind-rules-mean-for-you\/\">A couple of months ago<\/a>, President Obama agreed to offer states more flexibility from the federal mandates if states submitted a request showing their commitment \u00a0to boost student achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Education Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/arne-duncan\/\">Arne Duncan<\/a> said, \u201cWe set a high bar and an aggressive deadline, but these states rose to the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Each state designed a plan to do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop rigorous accountability systems that include a focus on low-performing schools and schools with persistent achievement gaps.\u00a0<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Implement college and career ready standards.<\/li>\n<li>Create better systems for developing, supporting and evaluating principals and teachers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If their plans are approved, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/nclb\/landing.jhtml\">U.S. Department of Education says<\/a>, the 11 states will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set performance targets to graduate students from high school ready for college and career rather than having to meet NCLB 2014 deadlines based on arbitrary measures of proficiency.<\/li>\n<li>Design locally tailored interventions for schools instead of one-size-fits-all remedies prescribed at the federal level.<\/li>\n<li>Be free to measure school progress using multiple measures rather than just test scores.<\/li>\n<li>Have more flexibility in how they spend Title 1 dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey,New Mexico, Oklahoma and Tennessee all filed for the waiver.<\/p>\n<p>The federal agency is expected to decide on the application in January. The next deadline for requests is in mid-February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is one of 11 states that asked the U.S. Department of Education to waive federal No Child Left Behind provisions. A couple of months ago, President Obama agreed to offer states more flexibility from the federal mandates if states submitted a request showing their commitment \u00a0to boost student achievement. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1035,1044,1043],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}