The Department of Education wrote to the eight remaining un-waivered states providing SES tutoring late last week and gave them a pass for school year 2016-2017; the transition year between NCLB and ESSA. California, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska,...
President Obama called it “a Christmas miracle. A bipartisan bill signing right here.” The “right here” was the South Court Auditorium, part of the White House complex. More importantly, the bipartisan bill being signed was the Every Student Succeeds...
The Every Student Succeeds Act The House of Representatives voted Wednesday night, with a massive bipartisan majority of 359 to 64, in favor of a new education bill that has finally been made available in its entirety. The bill,...
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...
