No Child Left Behind: New Mexico Latest To Receive Waiver From Education Law

No Child Left Behind: New Mexico Latest To Receive Waiver From Education Law

SANTA FE, N.M. -- New Mexico is becoming the latest state to free itself from an unpopular federal system of rating public schools.

President Barack Obama's administration on Wednesday granted New Mexico the flexibility to implement its own school grading program rather than follow the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law.