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…
(This post was written by guest blogger Julia Martin, legislative director of the Brustein & Manasevit law firm.) The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the 2009 health care law will have wide-ranging effects on health care policy…
(This post was written by guest blogger Julia Martin, legislative director of the Brustein & Manasevit law firm.) In a March 18 interview on “Fox News Sunday,” former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said that if elected…
(This post was written by guest blogger Julia Martin, legislative director of the Brustein & Manasevit law firm.) In the frenzy leading up to this November’s elections, it’s easy to feel like everyone in Washington is running for reelection. But…
On February 15, 2012, the Obama administration proposed a $5 billion competitive grant program that Education Secretary Duncan said would “change society’s view of teaching from the factory model of yesterday to the professional model of tomorrow where teachers are…
Although the most recent meeting of the blue-ribbon Equity and Excellence Commission left a number of topics hanging in the air, it appears that a solid majority agreed on at least one issue: the education stew suffers from having too…
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