On Friday, the Department of Education announced that more than half the states have now notified the Department of their intent to request a waiver from key provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As of October 12, seventeen states (Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Wisconsin) had indicated their intent to request Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility by November 14, 2011, for a December peer review. Additionally, eighteen states (Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, and Washington), the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico had indicated an intent to request flexibility by mid-February 2012, for a spring 2012 peer review. Two more states (Connecticut and Oregon) have also indicated intent without a specific timeline.

Link: Department of Education Information