Miller Statement on California School Districts' NCLB Waiver Application
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education announced that the California Office to Reform Education (CORE) would be granted flexibility from certain parts of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in exchange for adopting reforms that include college and career ready standards, new school improvement systems, and meaningful teacher and school leader evaluations.
“The approval of the CORE waiver application will provide the opportunity for more than a million students in California to break away from the most rigid requirements of NCLB that do little to ensure that all children are learning. I applaud CORE's leadership in providing a student-centered vision for education in their districts, and I believe this action will provide the whole state an exciting opportunity to pilot new reforms and learn from some of the leading districts in California and the nation. I thank the Secretary of Education for providing the CORE districts and the state of California with this opportunity to take their education system into the future.”
The CORE districts serve more than a million students, more than 31 states that have received waivers and the District of Columbia . The school districts that make up the CORE application include: Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sanger and Santa Ana Unified.
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