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New Jersey begins to venture beyond No Child Left Behind
A decade into the federal law that changed the debate on public schools, the federal No Child Left Behind Act looks like it will be gone well short of its goal that all students be proficient in reading and math by 2014.
President Obama’s education secretary Arne Duncan yesterday announced that his department will be granting regulatory waivers to states to get around the 100 percent proficiency goal and other rigid provisions of the NCLB.
In New Jersey, more than half of the public schools don’t meet the federal standards now, according to the state. Some predicted a failure rate as high as 80 percent nationwide in the next few years. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)