Obama recently decided to grant waivers to the states for NCLB (No Child Left Behind) (EDWeek.com). This will give states exemptions from many of the standards schools are forced to meet under NCLB. Instead, they will have to agree to national standards that take place of the ones set by the states. This gives the federal government even more control over your children and their education, a goal for Obama and the Democrats. But I believe it also serves another purpose.
NCLB has began to embarrass some schools and expose what most parents already know: teachers, and their unions, are failing in educating our children. According to the Christian Science Monitor, at least 178 teachers and principals have been caught artificially raising student scores in Atlanta to show the progress required by NCLB (Yahoo! News). There are other allegations throughout the United States of similar improprieties.
The Obama waivers will help take attention away from these allegations by dismissing the NCLB standards. Many teachers complain the standards are too high, and Obama's move validates this claim. Not to mention that these waivers are completely unconstitutional. Obama is acting like a king, handing out waivers for NCLB, ObamaCare, and refusing the enforce laws he does not agree with (NYTimes.com).
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