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…
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…
(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…
It’s no news that civility across party lines is a diminished commodity in Washington. At a time when Rush Limbaugh has drawn national ire for his latest outburst and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) has announced her resignation from a bickering …
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…
On February 15, 2012, the Obama administration proposed a $5 billion competitive grant program that Education Secretary Duncan said would “change society’s view of teaching from the factory model of yesterday to the professional model of tomorrow where teachers are…
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