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L.A. Unified, 7 others get waivers from No Child Left Behind
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 6, 2013 | By Howard Blume

Posted on 08/06/2013 5:16:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

L.A. Unified and seven other California school districts on Tuesday won relief from some strict and costly provisions of federal education law.

Besides Los Angeles, the school districts are Long Beach, Santa Ana, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco and Sanger.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluezones; education; losangeles; nclb; nea; schoolboard; unions; unionvote; urban

1 posted on 08/06/2013 5:16:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
L.A. Unified, 7 others get waivers from No Child Left Behind

Kinda' defeats the purpose.

2 posted on 08/06/2013 5:18:23 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why not? They evidently believe they have a waiver on educating the kids.


3 posted on 08/06/2013 5:19:06 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

waivers for everyone

Just like ObamaCare, waivers for liberals


4 posted on 08/06/2013 5:19:39 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NCLB needs to be repealed. The Federal government has no business involving itself in education.


5 posted on 08/06/2013 5:19:42 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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You might be right but certainly local districts aren’t getting it done either.
I don’t know how things could have gotten any worse before NCLB at least stopped social promotions
and at least more children were learning to read


6 posted on 08/06/2013 5:24:51 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like they’re planning on leaving some kids behind.


7 posted on 08/06/2013 5:27:57 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: GenXteacher
NCLB needs to be repealed.

Agreed, but in the meantime, we can use the left's own rhetoric on them. "So, you're for leaving children behind?"
8 posted on 08/06/2013 5:28:38 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So the kids of LA can aspire to be Crips,Bloods or MS13.I don't think that's what Jaime Escalante had in mind at Garfield High.
9 posted on 08/06/2013 5:31:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Could importing too many non-English speakers be a factor?

Si


10 posted on 08/06/2013 5:54:11 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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And these areas are heavily Mestizo, non-English speaking, and English-Refusal areas. Of course, throw in some token Blacks.

Need waivers for people who refuse to learn


11 posted on 08/06/2013 6:15:56 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Difference between George Zimmerman and Al Sharpton is that Sharpton woulda let honky family burn)
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Sanger is a suburb of Fresno, which is the California version of Detroit - closed businesses, bad economy, high unemployment, gangs everywhere, high crime rate, etc...

Fresno = Detroilet, just a smaller version.

Also, LA, LB, SF, Oakland are all epitomes of liberal policy failures.

IDK about Santa Ana, but I’ve been to the six other cities and they are all heavily Dem with a lot of “diversity”

“Diversity” = “Whites not welcomed here.”


12 posted on 08/07/2013 1:11:26 AM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (FUBO and that pre-op Tranny you call a wife!)
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