It is an old story: a good proposal lies dormant until the time is ripe. In this case, it has taken six years for a favorable regulatory environment and a new bureaucratic champion to emerge and push a long-stalled reform forward….
Tag Archives: President Obama
OMB Releases Far-Reaching Draft Grant Guidance
February 24, 2012 – 5:07 pm
(The following guest blog was adapted from a post written by Jerry Ashworth at our sister blog, Funding Attractions.) The Office of Management and Budget has released draft guidance that has the potential to significantly alter the landscape for grants…
Not so fast…
February 9, 2012 – 3:56 pm
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…
Waiver Package Offers No Windfall for Private Schools
December 1, 2011 – 4:18 pm
When No Child Left Behind was enacted, advocates for private schools voiced complaints that the new set-asides for choice and supplemental education services (SES) would shortchange their students. After all, these set-asides — amounting up to 20 percent of a…
Supreme Court to Weigh in on Federal Grants
November 21, 2011 – 8:00 am
Responding to the Supreme Court’s Nov. 14 decision to consider a constitutional challenge to the new health care law, the media have focused on the law’s controversial requirement that everyone buy health insurance (the so-called “individual mandate”). But they have…
Dream the Impossible Dream
October 25, 2011 – 8:00 am
In our last post on the Equity and Excellence Commission, we noted the resurgence of interest in a long-forgotten artifact of the Nixon administration: a plan to do away with the funding of schools via local property taxes. It was…
What Waivers Leave Behind
October 13, 2011 – 9:45 am
Like most school district officials across the country, I watched enthusiastically as President Obama announced long-awaited relief from aspects of No Child Left Behind. With some time to reflect, however, I have become concerned about the unintended consequences of granting…