The California Department of Education is recommending that California apply for a waiver from the most onerous conditions of the No Child Left Behind law — but not under the conditions set by the Obama administration under a waiver program it announced last fall.
Instead, California would apply to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for a waiver under a separate section of the decade-old NCLB law — Section 9401 – which allows whoever is secretary to grant waivers on a case by case basis.
via California may seek a waiver from No Child Left Behind law — on its own terms.