However,
because those efforts were unsuccessful, and your legislature is not
scheduled to reconvene until January 2015, I can not extend Washington's authority to implement ESEA flexibility, and Washington and its LEAs must resume implementing the requirements of Title I of the ESEA, as amended by the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), as well as all other ESEA requirements that were waived under ESEA flexibility, for the 2014 — 2015 school
year.
Even though the Legislature budgeted $ 10 million for the agency this
year, the collaborative really isn't
behind schedule,
because the State Board of Education is still 16 months from creating the criteria for deciding when the collaborative should step in to help troubled districts.