Education reformers like to tout the gains posted in New Orleans’ Recovery School District, a school system borne into existence a few years before Hurricane Katrina but expanded prodigiously in the city months following the storm. The surfeit of praise comes from a mixed bag of public policy players. U.S. More…
A school board in Virginia has voted unanimously to leave No Child Left Behind, which would mean joining a bevy of other boards across the country in sending a resolution to Sec. of Education Arne Duncan asking for the request.
The petition is a joint effort by The American Association More…
After two attempts to receive waivers from the federal government over public school accountability requirements were turned down, the state of Kansas is hoping to submit a third request in a more amicable regulatory environment.
In this the first week of National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, the U.S. Department of Education is introducing new guidelines for how universities should handle on-campus rape and sexual assault, reports The Washington Post.
On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden, during his address to the University of More…
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan told Congress Wednesday that his agency estimates that 82 percent of America’s public schools will be given a “failing status,” if they do not meet education goals set by No Child Left Behind (PDF) this year.
“[No Child Left Behind] has created dozens More…
As he turns to focusing on the national stage shortly after leaving Minnesota’s governor’s office, Tim Pawlenty is making his way through numerous high-profile interviews. He appeared on both Good Morning America and The View on Tuesday morning, and on Monday he sat down with The New York Times for More…
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced today he plans to bring the DREAM Act to the floor again today so it will be “poised and ready to be called” as a standalone bill or an amendment. That’s not to say it will happen soon, though. Durbin said it might More…
Trapped in a deepening fiscal quagmire, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has proposed a budgetary shift that could jeopardize federal stimulus funding for education, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Although $10 billion in stimulus funds for education has been granted to the state, those funds come with More…
Speaking in the American flag-adorned gym of Chicago’s Dodge Renaissance Academy, a public elementary school, President-elect Barack Obama named Arne Duncan as his secretary of education this morning.
Duncan (his first name is pronounced AR-nee), the CEO of the Chicago public school system, has a reputation as a consensus builder, More…
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