During day two of the HELP committee markup to approve the major K-12 education law meant to replace No Child Left Behind, senators proposed various amendments that addressed teacher requirements for Native American school lessons, testing standards for students with disabilities, classroom apprenticeship programs among others. The pace of the More…
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet seems to love his job as much as he hates the senate. That is, he seems to relish the opportunity to make change that matters as much as he reviles the fact that senate rules and procedures and politics work against anyone making any More…
Today during the markup process to overhaul the main education law of the land, No Child Left Behind, senators on the HELP Committee managed to discuss a little-known but crucial tweak to how poor and rich school districts share education funding.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) employed a Senate rule forcing the committee considering a law to replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to come to a sudden halt, even though lawmakers went head first into making sense of the 860-page education bill and the over 100 amendments tacked on — 74 More…
As the Senate moves forward with Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) bill to overhaul U.S. K-12 education, with a greater emphasis coming on the side of local control and funding flexibility, states are still shouldering federal expectations that aren’t expected to go away any time soon.
New Mexico has a major stake in the current No Child Left Behind overhaul underway in the U.S. Senate. Depending on what the final bill looks like, poor students in the state could expect a greater amount of per-pupil education spending.
Yesterday Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) unveiled an early version of a bill to reauthorize the Early and Secondary Education Act, currently known as No Child Left Behind.
The draft legislation [bill summary] has been dubbed the Harkin-Enzi bill
A bill proposed in the Ohio Senate would block students from enrolling in charter schools that are ranked worse than nearby traditional neighborhood schools.
The GOP presidential candidates and Florida Republicans disagree on many issues, but they mostly agree that K-12 education policies should be designed at the local level and that the federal government should play a limited role.
The Republicans running for president may be working
With last week’s announcement that the Obama administration is offering states the opportunity to opt out of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements in exchange for more vigorous school accountability and teacher assessment standards, analysts around the nation are trying to make sense of the waiver option.
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