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,...
When I was a child many questions would be fielded by my parents with the stock response of, ‘Look it up’. I would then drag myself to the bookcase and find a dictionary, thesaurus or encyclopedia to locate and...
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,...
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...
Applications to provide SES services for the 2015 – 2016 School Yer are well underway for states that did not apply for or did not receive a waiver from NCLB, with Iowa’s being the first to close in a...
