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Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson says he wants to find a way to keep tutoring alive in some way.

Waiver could shake up tutoring

Thousands of low-income Florida students who have received free, private tutoring may no longer have that option in the fall. The reason: the Obama administration's decision on Thursday to free Florida and nine other states from requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

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