For over a decade now, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has been pushing state and local education agencies to adopt a federal accounting device that they apparently don’t want. Why? Because Congress is somehow convinced that school districts want…
One of the more puzzling “flexibilities” available under the ESEA is the option to consolidate state, local and federal funds in schoolwide Title I schools. Consolidating services and programs is sensible — it is a great relief to be able…
If you were an 8th-grade teacher and you told your class that a 20-page term paper would be 5 percent of their grade, what kind of results would you expect? Being rational time-allocators, most of your students would probably turn…
Tomorrow morning, the House Education and the Workforce Committee is slated to mark up the State and Local Funding Flexibility Act (H.R. 2445). The somewhat controversial bill would provide flexibility by enabling school districts to shift funding from targeted NCLB…
The summer of 2001 seems like so long ago. The economy boomed on the back of technological innovation. A new Planet of the Apes hit theaters with a loud dud. The annoying (at least to me) sounds of “Lady Marmalade”…
When the 2011 appropriations bill defunded the longstanding Ed-Tech grant program, it pretty much marked the end of a nearly forgotten NCLB experiment: ‘transferability’. Hailed at the time of the law’s passage, this provision allowed school districts to transfer up…
(This post was written by guest contributor Steve Peha, President of Teaching That Makes Sense, an education consultancy based in Carrboro, NC.) Chuck Edwards brings up some good points about Title III compliance in this Title I-Derland post. No doubt,…
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