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Oklahoma gets No Child Left Behind waiver Updated at 7:21 AM
Oklahoma gets No Child Left Behind waiver

By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau
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Oklahoma won its freedom Thursday to go its own way on setting school achievement standards without the burden of certain mandates in the decade-old No Child Left Behind law.

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