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Idaho Announces Intent To Ignore No Child Left Behind | In a letter to Education Secretary Arne Dunca, Idaho schools superintendent Tom Luna said “his state will not follow key parts of the No Child Left Behind law anymore. Instead, Idaho will use its own accountability system.” As Michele McNeill at K-12 Politics explained, “usually, states ask for a waiver to get out of NCLB’s requirements. Idaho willfully has decided to flout the law.” Duncan has been pressing lawmakers to reform NCLB, but has run into severe Republican intransigence.