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.) 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…
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…
Just as several prognosticators, including yours truly, signaled pessimism about the flexibility the U.S. Department of Education would offer in its ESEA waiver package, President Obama has today announced a fairly large field of “winners”: 10 out of the 11…
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….
It seems some officials at the U.S. Department of Education took issue with a recent Title I-Derland post describing guidance on Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waivers as a “striking departure” from departmental precedent and a violation of ED…
The first round of eleven NCLB waiver applicants will soon learn whether their submissions are good enough to earn the Department of Education’s (ED) stamp of approval. When that happens, we will lose something very important to our education system…
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