Sen. Paul Responds to “No Child Left”, Waivers

Sen. Rand Paul, in response to the announcement that President Barack Obama granted 10 states, including Kentucky, waivers for No Child Left Behind, released the following statement.

“I applaud the President’s decision to grant No Child Left Behind waivers to Kentucky and several other states,” Sen. Paul said. “The implementation of this federal government takeover of our education system has hurt not helped parents, teachers, administrators, and most importantly, students.

“This waiver decision only serves to highlight the inherent problems with the federal takeover of education, and should remind us all that the best policy would be full repeal, with education decisions going back to the local governments, school administrators and parents. I am hopeful this decision also indicated President Obama has finally realized states would like relief from the burdensome mandates placed on them by the federal government. In that same spirit, I urge him to direct his administration to issue waivers for Obamacare and Dodd-Frank, and to direct out-of-control bureaucrats to cease the EPA’s job-crushing war on coal and farms in Kentucky,” Sen. Paul concluded.