No Child Left Behind Waiver - Letter to Parents from MDE Commissioner Dr. Brenda Cassellius
Submitted by wps.media on May 24, 2012 - 8:41am
Last fall I wrote to you about Minnesota’s request for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. We sought this waiver because it was clear after more than a decade that while the goals of NCLB were worthy, the law’s strict emphasis on single test scores had not significantly helped move achievement for students, and had in fact, mislabeled too many schools as failing, while not recognizing those having tremendous success.