U.S. Rep. John Kline, head of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, meets with school board leaders and superintendents at a round-table session in his Minnesota district. The congressman often tests local sentiment on how federal policies are playing outside Washington. —Jenn Ackerman for Education Week Alyson Klein, Education Week, March 5, 2013 - School superintendents, [...]
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GOP K-12 Leader Gets Earful on Policy
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Tags: ESEA, federal education funding, federal policy, IDEA, special education funding
Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools?
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Tags: achievement gap, ESEA, NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, redlining
Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools? Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:00 AM Linda Darling-Hammond, The Nation This article appeared in the January 30, 2012 edition of The Nation. Today a new form of redlining is emerging. If passed, the long-awaited Senate bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would build a bigger [...]
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