sam dillon from the new york times is our guest. walk us through it. if i need a voucher and i'm a state, what is the process? >> the term is waiver. if you want a waiver, you will have to wait until mid-to-late september. the date hasn't been set yet. that's the time when arne duncan will be announcing all the details and all of the fine print that states will need to comply with in order to fill out an application and get a waiver. what they have done so far has been to outline some general principles that they say they will be using and the criteria they will be using and judging the validity of states applications for these waivers. those have roughly corresponded to the documents the administration put out. these are things like commitment to raising teacher quality. commitment to raising the standards in the state and three or four others. >> the state has to say to the government here are my ideas for standards and the government says fine. they will get the waiver? >> kind of, yeah. they have to make a case that they are not just an irresponsib

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. >> sam dillon is a national education correspondent, talking about no child left behind. thank you very much. >> it's been great. >>> this week, the obama administration named ten states that would be allowed to opt out of no child left behind. states that get a waiver would have to meet new education requirements. for details, we talked to a reporter with national journal. >> fawn johnson writes for national journal. why did the administration give some states waivers on the no child left behind law? >> it's part of the administration's we can't wait campaign. it's something they've been cussing for over a year. they call it a plan "b" for the no child left behind. to give the states an out to the provision in the law that requires all students to be at grade level in reading and math by 2014. 2014 is coming up fast. there are some schools that won't make that deadline and obama wanted to give those states some ability to come up with other school reforms while congress works out whatever problems that they might be having and i are writing the law. >> they gave the waiv