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Oklahoma 'No Child Left Behind' Waiver To Be Reinstated

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Oklahoma officials say the federal government will restore the state's flexibility to decide how to use $29 million in public school funding.

The state Board of Education said in a statement that the U.S. Department of Education would announce Monday afternoon it is reinstating a waiver from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Oklahoma lost its waiver this year after the state dropped Common Core standards and didn't certify that the replacement guidelines made students ready for college or the workplace.

State education officials certified new guidelines last month and asked that the federal waiver be reinstated.

The board said the waiver will be reinstated for the rest of this school year.

Education department spokeswoman Dorie Nolt said she could not confirm that "at this point."

 
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