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…
(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…
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…
We’ve had some excellent talk about professionalism here recently. In “HQT: What the Doctor Ordered?”, Nancy Connor, director of federal programs for the Denver Public Schools, wrote about the value of certification and of NCLB’s High-Quality Teacher provision. In regard to…
Until a few weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education was promising to announce its first wave of ESEA waiver approvals before the end of January. That deadline came and went without a peep about the reason for the delay….
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…
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