{"id":4779,"date":"2012-02-09T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:36:26","slug":"read-the-federal-concerns-about-floridas-no-child-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/09\/read-the-federal-concerns-about-floridas-no-child-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Read The Federal Concerns About Florida&#8217;s &#8216;No Child&#8217; Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_210\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 219px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/07\/1151696371.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-210\" title=\"Education Secretary Arne Duncan Meets With People For The American Way Foundation's Young Elected Officials Network\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/07\/1151696371-300x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/07\/1151696371-300x410.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/07\/1151696371-220x301.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/07\/1151696371.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\"> <\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While we&#8217;re waiting for the White House and the U.S. Department of Education to say why they approved Florida&#8217;s No Child Left Behind waiver request, let&#8217;s review what they said about the application in December.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the December 20, 2011 letter to the Florida Department of Education outlining initial concerns.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the feds were concerned that some student groups weren&#8217;t included in Florida&#8217;s grading system, that the system did not place enough emphasis on graduation rates and that the application did not emphasize enough student sub-groups, which can include minority and low-income students.<\/p>\n<p>Read the letter after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/291387-florida-esea-waiver-letter-12-20-2011.html\">https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/291387-florida-esea-waiver-letter-12-20-2011.html<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re waiting for the White House and the U.S. Department of Education to say why they approved Florida&#8217;s No Child Left Behind waiver request, let&#8217;s review what they said about the application in December. Below is the December 20, 2011 letter to the Florida Department of Education outlining initial concerns. At the time, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1044,1045,1039,1043],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}