The Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee—Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander— wants to update ESSA “to allow schools to hire more counselors, make infrastructure improvements, and fund violence-prevention programs.” However, “some in Congress don’t think Alexander’s bill would truly break new ground or...
Andrew Ujifusa reports in Education Week that during a recent Senate HELP Committee hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) “took the opportunity in her opening remarks to say that not every state’s ESSA plan meets the law’s requirements for schools with struggling student subgroups.”
Politico reports that Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Republican Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, was “furious” that a top aide to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was “circumventing” ESSA, contending the federal agency was “out of bounds” in challenging state officials on issues such as...
The 74 reports that the “familiar battles that have surrounded Education Secretary Betsy DeVos since her own contentious confirmation,”—from school choice, to ESSA, to Title IX—were front and center again at a recent Senate confirmation hearing for two top Education Department nominees.
“Several civil rights and education advocacy groups have a simple message for Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos,” reports Education Week’s Andrew Ujifusa. “Just say no to Florida’s Every Student Succeeds Act plan.” In a letter sent to Secretary DeVos, more than a dozen civil rights...
Education Week’s Alyson Klein writes that special education advocates “have a message for U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos: Don’t let New York wiggle out of the Every Student Succeeds Act’s testing requirements for students with significant cognitive disabilities.”
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on state innovation under ESSA. During the hearing, Chairman Lamar Alexander commented that “Tennessee, Louisiana, and New Mexico have taken the most advantage of the flexibility” offered under ESSA, in terms of “creating innovative...
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will hold a hearing to discuss state innovation under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-WA, and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-VA, expressed concern about the U.S. Dept. of Education’s new approach to reviewing state ESSA plans. The two argue in a letter that, “The decision will result in inconsistent treatment of state agencies, leading to flawed implementation...
During a House Education and Workforce Committee Hearing “lawmakers from both sides of the aisle Tuesday expressed concern about the consistency of feedback from the U.S. Department of Education to states about ESSA plans.” Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) stated that the committee “will be watching to...
