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Daily Archives: February 20th, 2014

Washington should follow California’s lead and resist flawed federal education demands

Excerpt: Next week Wash­ing­ton Gov­er­nor Jay Inslee will meet with U.S. Edu­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Arne Dun­can to dis­cuss the state’s waiv­er from the require­ments of the failed No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. Last year Dun­can’s depart­ment threat­ened to revoke the waiv­er unless the state leg­is­la­ture man­dat­ed that dis­tricts include stu­dent test scores in teacher eval­u­a­tions. Cur­rent­ly […]
Published at:5:24 PM on Thursday, February 20th, 2014
Written by:Robert Cruickshank
Categories:Education, Legislative Advocacy
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