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…
(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…
Columnist George Will Sunday highlighted an oft-overlooked challenge to the “quid pro quo” theory behind state grants-in-aid. This challenge is an incidental part of the suit against the Obama administration’s health care law that will be argued before the Supreme Court in late…
There has been a lot of guessing about the numbers in the now-stalled compromise conference report for 2012 funding. Reportedly, a House-Senate agreement was reached Sunday night on funding for multiple federal agencies, including Education, but Senate negotiators were directed…
In the absence of a reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act, much of the Obama administration’s agenda for K-12 education has rested on two grant programs first funded under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the “stimulus bill”): the…
More and more, the Obama administration’s education policy seems like a “monster truck” built atop a Volkswagen Bug chassis. Sweeping Elementary and Secondary Education Act reforms are built on the rickety structure of a regulation-ridden Title I program inherited from the…
No, this is not about biology. This is about another quiet retreat in the Obama administration’s ESEA waiver package — a retreat that shows how much ground civil rights groups have lost in the education debate since the Republican takeover…
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