Oct 6, 2011 Interviewing Rick Perry On Illegal Immigration
Posted on 10/07/2011 12:01:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Local educators likely will have to continue living with the widely criticized federal No Child Left Behind education law, which flunked nearly one-third of all Hidalgo County schools this year.
Last month, President Barack Obama detailed several education reforms that states must fulfill before he grants waivers to the bill’s stringent requirement that 100 percent of students reach math and reading proficiency by 2014.
But Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott recently hinted the White House has not convinced him the state needs to apply for a waiver.
“He is leaning toward not applying, but he hasn’t decided,” said TEA spokeswoman Debbie Ratcliffe.
Local superintendents criticized the controversial No Child Left Behind bill, or NCLB, this summer when it failed 104 local campuses – a staggering 39 percent – for not keeping up with its rising standards toward 100 percent proficiency.
However, they may face further frustration and more disappointing ratings next year since Scott has expressed concerns with the president’s list of reforms. Specifically, Ratcliffe said, the requirement that a state’s best teachers serve in the most challenging or struggling schools worried the commissioner.
“Currently staffing is left up to our local school districts to decide, and so he was very uncomfortable with having the U.S. Department of Education tell him to tell schools who to staff and where to staff in each school,” Ratcliffe said. “He felt that was quite an overreach.”
She added that Scott also skeptically viewed the president’s reliance on so-called Common Core standards, a nationwide framework for school curriculum that all but six states, including Texas, have adopted.
Republican presidential hopeful and Texas Gov. Rick Perry has lambasted the Common Core initiative as an “irresponsible” attempt to give bureaucrats and special interest groups power over local educational decisions.
Obama said states filing for waivers do not need to adopt Common Core standards, yet Ratcliffe said some worry remained about a “roundabout way” the president devised to implement them.
“You can get the waiver without having the Common Core standards, but you had multiple extra steps to go through to verify everything,” said Ratcliffe, who added those steps were “definitely designed” to still push the standards. Continued
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Oct 6, 2011 Interviewing Rick Perry On Illegal Immigration
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“Local educators likely will have to continue living with the widely criticized federal No Child Left Behind education law, which flunked nearly one-third of all Hidalgo County schools this year. “
Perry would have been able to make a much better case against NCLB and Common Core if Texas schools didn’t suck so much.
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