An article in the Hartford Courant mistakenly claimed that Federal Funding for Education (through the NCLB waiver requirement) is in peril if SB 24 is not passed: this is not true. But what is true is that the cost of implementing the mandates of the waiver would be onerous, and not necessarily beneficial. The Malloy administration did not bother to assess the cost of the waiver prior to rushing in Connecticut's application. However, California and Montana cited the cost of the waiver as prime reasons for not applying- California estimated the waiver to cost in the billions.
Any meager federal funding attached to the waiver would likely be dwarfed by the cost of implementing its mandates. Moreover, the grand claims that the waiver requirements will raise student achievement are not supported by any proof in the real world.
Denial of the waiver would allow Connecticut to abandon fake reform and focus on measures that would truly help our schools and our children.
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