{"id":514,"date":"2011-08-08T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=514"},"modified":"2011-08-08T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:02:16","slug":"jeb-bush-offers-a-solution-in-no-child-left-behind-dispute-look-at-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/08\/jeb-bush-offers-a-solution-in-no-child-left-behind-dispute-look-at-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Bush Offers a Solution in No Child Left Behind Dispute: Look at Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_515\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-515\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/08\/jeb-bush-offers-a-solution-in-no-child-left-behind-dispute-look-at-florida\/president-obama-speaks-on-education-at-miami-high-school\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-515\" title=\"President Obama Speaks On Education At Miami High School\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/109775488-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/109775488-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/109775488-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/08\/109775488.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Raedle \/ Getty News Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama (left), U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan (middle) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (right) at a Miami rally in March.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congress needs to reauthorize federal No Child Left Behind education standards, but President Barack Obama is growing tired of waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said a month ago that the agency planned to issue waivers to exempt some states from NCLB requirements as many states claim a high percentage of their schools will fail to meet its goals.<\/p>\n<p>Former Florida Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/jeb-bush\/\">Jeb Bush<\/a> is also weighing in &#8212; we told you about his Politico op-ed <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/roundup\/roll-call-bush-supports-nclb-waivers-too-much-turnover-public-weighs-in-on-school-reform\/\">last week<\/a> &#8212; arguing that districts that adopt reforms and show improvement  should earn a federal waiver. Bush suggests a list of reforms very  similar to those he pushed while governor and now known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/the-laboratory\/\">&#8220;Florida model:&#8221;<\/a> A letter grade rating system; measuring teacher performance; and expanding school choice and online options.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Bush founded a number of education foundations, one of which, the Tallahassee-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excelined.org\/\">Foundation for Excellence in Education<\/a>, guides other states about adopting Florida style reforms.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like the department is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/campaign-k-12\/2011\/07\/so_about_a_month_ago.html\">getting close<\/a> to saying from what school will be exempted, according to <em>Education Week<\/em>&#8216;s Politics K-12 blog. Some members of Congress have argued the administration is overstepping its authority by exempting state from portions of the law.<\/p>\n<p>The department has scheduled a conference call to discuss NCLB this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress needs to reauthorize federal No Child Left Behind education standards, but President Barack Obama is growing tired of waiting. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said a month ago that the agency planned to issue waivers to exempt some states from NCLB requirements as many states claim a high percentage of their schools will fail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[67,1026,1043,1018,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}