Stephanie Lovett-Bowman, Friday, March 04, 2011 | Filed under: No Child Left Behind
The McPherson School District has received a
waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 – the first such waiver in Kansas and probably the entire country. The Kansas school district asked the federal government for the waiver in September and was informed last week that the request had been granted.
McPherson Superintendent Randy Watson told the
Kansas City Star that the district had not struggled to comply with NCLB, but the district anticipated it would in the future as NCLB’s requirements of the percentage of students required to meet grade-level standards increases. Thanks to the waiver from NCLB, McPherson will track its older students’ achievement by using tests developed by the same group that administers the ACT college entrance exams. The district will still have to show progress using the alternative exams, but it will be able to bypass NCLB’s 100-percent goal with its older students.