Many who would oppose entering into participation with the program focus on the idea that it gives up New Jersey's inherent autonomy as a state to create its own educational standards. Essentially, it allows the federal government more authority within local education. This would intrude on local legislature's ability to more appropriately decide what is right for their own communities. Additionally, there are a number of major flaws within the structure of the legislation itself. Inept federal leadership has resulted in slow and inefficient implementation of the law's processes, making it a dangerous gamble for New Jersey to take part. National leaders have been slow to correlate how states can adhere to the national law with greater synergy and without conflict between local and federal legislative practices. Moreover, there is not enough power behind driving challenging and innovative curriculum for schools...

This leaves students vulnerable to missing key elements of an appropriate education.
This is a regressive approach, rather than a progressive approach, which would only place New Jersey in greater danger in failing to provide its students with impressive education standards. With New Jersey's educational performance, this strategy does not entirely match up with local needs. Overall, the best advice in regards to this issue is to avoid entering New Jersey into No Child Left Behind programs, as they would only create more problems than solutions. Thus, it would be best to avoid adapting New Jersey' current situation into the federal law which is proven to have more weaknesses than strengths. Therefore, it is best to accept the new changes listed by President Obama, and waive the central requirements of the law, so that New Jersey can make a more effective plan on our own.