Gov. Dannel Malloy, spoke Tuesday to reporters on the status of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind standards:
“The reality is the way No Child Left Behind is set up, in a few years 96 percent of all schools in the United States will not meet the standard. I have spoken to the secretary in Washington. He’s aware that provisions need to be made. There are circumstances in Washington which, quite frankly, aren’t allowing good policy to be developed at this point. I think there’s a lot of work yet to be done in Washington to resolve this issue.”
He said he’ll be looking at the possibility of a waiver exempting the state from some of the federal achievement requirements.
“In all likelihood the Congress of the United States is not going to act in a timely fashion with respect to the revisions that need to be made to No Child Left Behind,” Malloy said.