How'd we get here? Background on Indiana's NCLB waiver process

Indiana today learned it would get a one-year extension of its No Child Left Behind waiver from U.S. Department of Education.

We’ve rounded up some of our past stories on the issue to help get you up to speed.

January 2014

• Duncan cites Indiana’s “deep dysfunction” in interview

April 2014

• Indiana students will take two state tests in 2014-15

May 2014

• Feds put Indiana on notice: NCLB waiver in doubt
• New tensions begin to emerge over state’s NCLB response
• State board sets special meeting on NCLB waiver concerns
• Ritz, state board at odds over what went wrong on NCLB

June 2014

• Questions remain as Indiana’s NCLB deadline nears
• Pence: Indiana won’t delay test-based accountability in 2015
• Top Republican, Democrat take opposite views of NCLB waiver concerns
• Ritz, state board at odds over NCLB waiver status

July 2014

• Ritz, state board battle over board rules, NCLB waiver

August 2014

• Indiana dodges NCLB waiver bullet, for now