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Waiver Watch: Making Sense of Thirty-Five Shades of Grey
Anne HyslopThis post originally appeared on Ed Money Watch.Ever since the first waivers were submitted last November, there has been an inherent dilemma in the Obama administration’s No Child Left...
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Waiver Watch: Making Sense of Thirty-Five Shades of Grey
Ever since the first waivers were submitted last November, there has been an inherent dilemma in the Obama administration’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) flexibility plan: the tension between...
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Early Ed’s 10 Hot Spots to Watch in 2013
Each January, Early Ed Watch predicts where we will see the most action, innovation and consternation in the year ahead. Here are the hot spots we see for 2013. Notable is the absence of the...
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Waiver Watch: Forecasting Obama's Second Term
Much like the rest of President Obama’s signature educationprograms from the first term, the policy around ESEA flexibility seems to be shifting. The focus is no longer on how to win a waiver, but...
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Waiver Watch: The Real Lessons Learned from the Senate Waiver Hearing
Tuesday was a big night for early education and higher education. But what about all the education that happens in between? Teachers were mentioned once, but in the context of deficit reduction, not...
View ArticleDon’t Forget Full-Day Kindergarten
An under-examined aspect of President Obama’s new early childhood education plan is his proposal to encourage states to create more full-day kindergarten seats – though only after states are able to...
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Key Questions on the Obama Administration's 2014 Education Budget Request
President Barack Obama submitted his fiscal year 2014 budget request to Congress on April 10, 2013. The New America Foundation has reviewed the president’s proposals and generated a list of key...
View ArticleAt National Journal: The Tobacco Tax is a Place to Start
Last week, the National Journal Education Experts blog asked if funding pre-K with cigarette taxes was a good idea.I argue that seeking out new and creative funding streams has merit and that the...
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First Look: Sen. Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act
Yesterday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released yet another attempt to reauthorize No Child Left Behind: the Strengthening America’s...
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Teachers and Principals in Senator Harkin’s NCLB Reauthorization Plan
In many ways, the latest reauthorization effort from Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)–the Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA)–reads like an endorsement of the administration’s NCLB flexibility plan....
View ArticleHarkin Bill Reforms Teacher and Principal Programs
Earlier this week, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA). We profiled its major changes here, and a few significant mentions for early childhood education...
View ArticleHarkin Title I Reforms Readjust Funding Allocations
This week, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Tom Harkin (D-IA) released a new draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)....
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Harkin, Alexander, and Waivers: Your ESEA Markup Cheat Sheet
Tomorrow morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will markup the Strengthening America’s Schools Act, the latest ESEA reauthorization proposal from Chairman Tom Harkin...
View ArticleSen. Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act, Title III
Now that my colleagues Anne Hyslop and Clare McCann have dug into the changes that Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA) proposes for Title I and Title II (here and...
View ArticleStorify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup
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View ArticleStorify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup
Tuesday and Wednesday, the Senate HELP Committee convened to mark up Chairman Tom Harkin's (D-IA) bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. @NewAmericaEd's Anne Hyslop and Conor...
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English Language Learners in Rep. Kline's Student Success Act
The parade of bills that could replace No Child Left Behind continues this week with Wednesday’s markup of Rep. John Kline’s (R-MN) version. All signals suggest that this won’t be the year Congress...
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Update: A New NCLB Reauthorization Cheat Sheet
After the partisan markup in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, it is the House of Representatives' turn to debate reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. The Student Success...
View ArticleStorify: House Ed & Workforce Committee ESEA Markup
Click here for the Storify of last week's Senate HELP Committee markup.[&lt;a href="//storify.com/claremccann/house-education-and-workforce-committee-esea-marku" target="_blank"&gt;View...
View ArticleStorify: House Ed & Workforce Committee ESEA Markup
On Wednesday, the House Education & Workforce Committee convened to debate Chairman John Kline's (R-MN) proposed Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization. Ranking Member George Miller...
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