6 States OK'd to Write Education Laws Outside 'No Child'

Six states are getting the OK to write their own prescriptions for ailing schools under the Bush administration's signature education law.
It's a softening from how No Child Left Behind currently works — with schools having to take certain steps at specific times for missing math and reading testing goals. Critics have complained that the approach is too rigid and treats schools the same regardless of whether they miss the mark by a little or a lot.

I believe this is why our schools are doing so horribly, because we look for any excuse or reason to place blame on the problem. The real problem is that the parents are to busy and the teachers are over worked and under paid. That leads to the only individuals truely suffering being the childre trapped in our education system.
Hagins, Jonathan C.
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