Indiana receives No Child Left Behind waiver

President Barack Obama announced today that Indiana and nine other states will receive a No Child Left Behind waiver. This will give states the ability to improve how they prepare and evaluate students.

Gov. Mitch Daniels said he was pleased to learn that Indiana would be one of the first states to receive the waiver.

“No Child Left Behind was an important step forward, but it needed additional flexibility that Congress hasn’t yet provided,” he said in a press release. “The waiver will make for a fairer system and one that focuses on what matters most: getting the whole system to perform better in terms of student learning.”

The nine other states are Florida, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

— Claire Aronson