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Indiana one of ten states granted waiver from NCLB

The Associated Press is reporting President Obama is freeing ten states, including Indiana, from the strict requirements of No Child Left Behind.

The waivers were granted based on proposals from each state outlining how they plan to improve the way they prepare and evaluate students.

Indiana’s Board of Education has already approved an overhaul of how it grades schools.

The state‘s A-through-F grading scale is now attached to a new evaluation system that gives schools more credit when their student‘s test scores grow faster than their peers.

It also adds new measures to gauge how well schools prepare their graduates for college and a career.

The board passed the measure six-to-two.

The teachers‘ unions opposed the change, claiming the metrics are too complicated and could cause the state to take over more schools.