The reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA is no closer to becoming a reality than it was months ago, or for that matter years ago. It’s a topic that seems simple: write a solid law that helps the nation’s children. But, like...
California recently requested a four-year waiver to relieve districts from a requirement to spend up to 20 percent of Title I federal funds for low-income students on supplementary educational services (SES) that are largely provided by private companies off-site....
Anyone providing SES tutoring to the states without a waiver is watching the rewrite of NCLB quite closely, and while it would seem that SES will become a thing of the past, the way things are going it might...
Last Thursday the U.S. Senate approved the Every Child Achieves Act, its re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The 81-17 vote indicated a continuation of the widely bipartisan effort by the Senate to adopt an education law...