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…
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…
In the dramatic grants reform proposal released on Friday by the Office of Management and Budget and described here by guest blogger Jerry Ashworth, I thought one sentence aptly summarized OMB’s three core objectives (my caps): In order to ensure…
For over a decade now, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has been pushing state and local education agencies to adopt a federal accounting device that they apparently don’t want. Why? Because Congress is somehow convinced that school districts want…
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…
Were he alive today, George Bernard Shaw might get more than a little enjoyment from contrasting the American approach to school improvement and that of our cousins across the pond. In “On Her Majesty’s School Inspection Service,” a new report…
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