The sweet clamor of confusion is coming out of Florida. The source of the confusion is the tension between the United States Department of Education’s (ED’s) waiver of No Child Left Behind’s (NCLB) supplemental educational services (SES) requirements and a…
Change is difficult in public education. There are many reasons for this but the way we finance our schools is one of the larger obstacles. Our school districts are not set up to fund innovation. They distribute funds based on…
I’m not sure if the education leadership in California are mad or genius. The answer is probably “both.” This question is not new in California, but it’s most recent manifestation stems from California’s counterproposal to the United States Department of…
In their latest report on the ESEA, “Cut and Run,” Jeremy Ayers and Raegen Miller of the Center for American Progress take on Representative John Kline’s (R-Minn.) ESEA “Discussion Draft,” the Student Success Act. The title of the report is…
The first round of eleven NCLB waiver applicants will soon learn whether their submissions are good enough to earn the Department of Education’s (ED) stamp of approval. When that happens, we will lose something very important to our education system…
We are in the New Year and that means another revolutionary twelve months of education policy lies before us. “Revolutionary” is, of course, a relative term for education policy, just as the speed of the slug is relative to that…
Last Thursday, the Fordham Institute held a daylong conference on “Rethinking Education Governance.” The event was loaded with lots of great papers, many insights, and some grandstanding – as is required in Washington. What was missing? Sincere frustration. I mean,…
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