The funds have been provided for testing, but Connecticut apparently wants to keep those funds without using them as intended.
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It's important to note that is not Waiver City. No one has gotten a waiver yet, and these schools will have to show that they did not meet the state standards because of this disaster and these displaced students.
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The funds have been provided for testing.
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A core principle of No Child Left Behind is annual testing in grades three through eight -- so that we know how students are doing
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We've said for the past six months that this was stupid, wrong, and ill-advised. There's nothing in today's action that changes our opinion.
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This is unprecedented. In recent memory, we have never seen this number of displaced schoolchildren.
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We believe very strongly in these children and we're not granting waivers without the data to back it up
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Unfortunately, today's action doesn't bring the state any closer to closing its achievement gap, which is among the largest in the nation,.. From the day she walked in the door, Secretary Spellings has worked diligently to listen and respond to states' needs and concerns, and she has kept her word to help states implement No Child Left Behind in a workable, common-sense way.
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