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…
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 …
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…
(This blog post was written by guest contributors Julia Martin and Leigh Manasevit of the Brustein & Manasevit law firm.) The U.S. Department of Education (ED) released a new series of “Frequently Asked Questions” last week regarding its plan to…
While everyone is analyzing the waiver proposals from the first states that applied, we here in the trenches carry on. There remain all of the confusing and contradictory rules around spending federal dollars that we deal with every day…and no…
The ESEA reauthorization game is one with long odds. No one can agree on exactly when it will happen or what it will look like. One thing is certain: Everyone is betting on getting some kind of relief, by reauthorization…
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