Would “Supplement, Not Supplant” Create New Hurdles for Districts
September 7, 2016
In an opinion piece published by US News and World Report, Nat Malkus, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute commented on the Dept. of Education’s proposed “supplement, not supplant” regulations under ESSA. He concluded that the rule could create a “new set of hurdles” for school districts, and Secretary King is making a “risky long-term political bet” by putting forward regulations with a level of uncertainty on future administration impact. Malkus is concerned that the department is making “major demands” on school districts that Congress “expressly forbade.”