In the wake of a 2011 presidential mandate to reduce administrative burden associated with grants, there has been a flurry of initiatives (see here and here) from federal agencies designed to streamline oversight and drive more funds to programs rather…
In a pre-emptive strike against any attempt by federal agencies to game the upcoming sequestration, the Government Accountability Office testified last week that agencies can neither hoard money nor speed up spending in advance of the Jan. 2 implementation date….
To paraphrase an old Washington maxim, “A million here, a million there… Pretty soon you are talking real money.” On that subject, it appears that the Obama administration’s ESEA Flexibility waiver package could actually save almost $80 million annually just…
It is an old story: a good proposal lies dormant until the time is ripe. In this case, it has taken six years for a favorable regulatory environment and a new bureaucratic champion to emerge and push a long-stalled reform forward….
One of the things that immediately jumps out on reading the recent Reading First decision (see our two previous blogs, here and here), is that simple fact that it took five years to resolve the audit. The program itself ended…
As we discussed yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education’s decision on the allegations lodged against New York State’s Reading First program by ED’s Office of Inspector General was essentially a slap on the wrist. But both the substance of the…
More than five years after the Office of Inspector General issued an audit report criticizing New York State’s process for awarding Reading First subgrants to its districts, the U.S. Department of Education has informed New York that it should be…
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