“This is a good article which reveals how the federal education bureaucracy inaccurately harms our Virginia Standards of Learning by thwarting accountability, which causes illogical results. This is particularly harmful to schools with students who can’t speak or read English. Flexibility for accountability should be achieved before renewing NCLB.” -George Allen

Virginia considers leaving federal education act behind

by Richard Quinn
The Virginia Pilot
February 25, 2008

RICHMOND - The General Assembly is flirting with abandoning a landmark federal law that governs schools in the United States.

The decision could make Virginia the first state to set a deadline – summer 2009 – for planning a pullout from the No Child Left Behind Act, which ties billions of dollars to federally mandated testing standards in public schools.

State politicians have balked at some of those standards in the past few years. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has signed bills asking the U.S. Department of Education to waive parts of the federal law.

Most of those exemptions were granted, but the notable ones that have not been approved frustrate educators and annoy legislators.

This year, some politicians want to up the ante.

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