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Friday, February 10, 2012  Updated with video; Georgia recieves a waiver from No Child Left Behind.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012  Updated with video; A decade after the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, Georgia schools Superintendent John Barge and other state school superintendents are pushing to have it waived.

Monday, June 06, 2011  Despite suspicion, no evidence of favoritism in Obama administration's health care waivers

Friday, May 06, 2011  Meriwether County school officials want to declare the schoolyear over for 725 students

Wednesday, January 07, 2009  Georgia schools Superintendent Kathy Cox is asking that all the state's 180 school districts be granted class-size waivers because of state budget problems.