Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

The Alliance for Excellent Education released a brief calling on the U.S. Department of Education to ensure that proposals approved through the waiver process do not supersede the department's more rigorous 2008 high school graduation rate regulations. In addition, the Alliance recommends that the Department only approve waiver applications that give equal weight to high school graduation rates and measures of student achievement, while also allowing states to use additional measures of college and career readiness in their accountability systems.