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…
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…
In a time of shrinking budgets and increasing pressure to succeed in a way that has never been expected before, effectiveness will of necessity be linked to cost. Evaluations of the interventions we employ will be conducted through the lens…
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…
(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…
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…
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