(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.) President Obama today released his fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget proposal, sending the document to Congress for the consideration of members 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….
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…
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…
Will the next ESEA reauthorization contain a mandate to teach “intelligent design,” the creationist alternative to the theory of evolution? In a discussion of whether “ID” should be included in the public school curriculum, Jay Mathews, a Washington Post education…
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