California's state board expressed strong support for the effort of a group of school districts seeking a flexibility waiver from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. Read Full Post >
This leaves just three states that are sitting out the No Child Left Behind Act waiver process altogether: Montana, Nebraska, and Vermont. Read Full Post >
Michelle Obama wants schools to help students get the recommend 60 minutes of daily physical activity and has lined up partners to help them accomplish the goal. Read Full Post >
The real paradigm shift is for independent schools to start viewing themselves--and encouraging themselves to be regarded--as community resources that public schools might draw upon in specific ways, as they do with public libraries, cultural institutions, or museums. The trick will be to develop the partnership idea to the point that the resource role is baked into independent schools' understanding of their own missions and of their public purpose. Read Full Post >
A group of like-minded California districts are forging ahead to seek a waiver from mandates of NCLB after the state of California's bid to do so failed. Read Full Post >
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said sequestration will give him no choice but to cut money for disadvantaged and special education students. Read Full Post >
The $15 million effort aims to place close to 2,000 volunteers in schools over the next three years. Read Full Post >
Auditors found minor problems with oversight of Investing in Innovation grants, but potentially bigger issues if the workload of the U.S. Department of Education grows. Read Full Post >
The U.S. Secretary of Education continues to send strong signals that he may grant tailored, district-level NCLB waivers in states that have not already won this flexibility. Read Full Post >
Superintendents from Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco, and Long Beach lobby the U.S. Secretary of Education to approve their waiver application. Read Full Post >
