Columnist George Will Sunday highlighted an oft-overlooked challenge to the “quid pro quo” theory behind state grants-in-aid. This challenge is an incidental part of the suit against the Obama administration’s health care law that will be argued before the Supreme Court in late…
Ever since earmarks — funds directed to named grantees — started cropping up in appropriations bills during the Reagan administration, there have been periodic attempts to eliminate the practice. But, as holders of the national purse-strings, it is hard for…
While many of us are waiting impatiently for approval of Colorado’s NCLB waiver application, or looking over the funding levels passed in last week’s omnibus appropriations package for 2012, there are some very interesting developments in education finance here in…
The Committee for Education Funding (CEF), an umbrella organization that lobbies Congress on behalf of multiple education associations, has released an invaluable table showing the line-item amounts in the pending omnibus funding bill for FY 2012 (school year 2012-13). As we…
There has been a lot of guessing about the numbers in the now-stalled compromise conference report for 2012 funding. Reportedly, a House-Senate agreement was reached Sunday night on funding for multiple federal agencies, including Education, but Senate negotiators were directed…
In the absence of a reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act, much of the Obama administration’s agenda for K-12 education has rested on two grant programs first funded under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the “stimulus bill”): the…
The Formula Fairness Campaign’s dogged pursuit of revisions in the Title I allocation formula faces the same basic obstacle as other pending legislation on Capitol Hill: a viciously partisan atmosphere that inhibits compromise. The Campaign seeks to reduce the impact…
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