No Child Left Behind Act or Educational Law, which requires all public schools to administer a standardize test for the entire state, that are acquiring federal funds for the educational institutions just had an unfortunate first state lose for the federal waiver in Washington.
Education officials announced this Thursday, that Washington recently became the first state to have been removed of the federal waiver together with the independence and control to determine the best way to allocate the $40 million federal funds directed to improve the performance of the students in public schools. The No Child Left Behind Act is granted to all of the 42 states in America, which made Washington the first state to lose the federal waiver,
The Education Secretary, Arne Duncan sent an email notifying the state education officials that they are losing the waiver for reasons that the state was not able to complete the requirements needed by the United States Department of Education, specifically by including the teacher evaluation included in the student test results of the entire state.
Arne Duncan also added that the effort toward the education reform of the state is satisfactory, but it was not enough to impart the potential of the federal waiver. Lack of commitment from the Washington state was one of the major reason from the removal of the waiver.
Washington state was also known to have a conditional waiver during its operations for the last two school years, which was an issue for the ongoing debate about the changes in the state law that was not met to a solution on teacher evaluations that was required by the federal government.
Washington state will now use the previous evaluation system for the students upon losing the $40 million federal funds for its public schools. Washington officials were also disappointed on the decision, but was expecting the outcome. There is also some beliefs that the No Child Left Behind Act is not working and still has some issues that are needed to be improved.
