Illinois schools get waiver from No Child Left Behind progress mandate

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Illinois joined the long list of states that have received a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday, which means its school districts won’t be punished financially or labeled as failures if all students don’t score well on standardized tests.

The waiver comes just in time to dodge the No Child law’s mandate that by the end of the 2013-14 school year, 100 percent of students must show proficiency in reading and math on state tests. In Illinois in 2012, only 32 percent of public schools and 17.6 percent of districts made the “adequate yearly progress” required by the federal law.

Barack Obama and the amazing "waivers" from the law. It might be too bad if a future President "waived" ObamaCare.