The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its “supplement not supplant” rules requiring districts to demonstrate they are using federal Title I money in addition to state and local funds, reports Linda Jacobson for Education Dive. “The guidance says districts must show the methods they use...
Marguerite Roza writes in this Brookings piece that “new draft guidance the U.S. Department of Education released last month on monitoring the ‘supplement-not-supplant’ provision [of Title I] might be perceived as the current administration issuing a big sorry not sorry to equity advocates.” According to...
As reported by Politico, the Dept. of Education withdrew the proposed Title I spending rule known as the “supplement, not supplant” regulation under ESSA. Department spokeswomen Dorie Nolt stated the Obama administration “simply ran out of time.”
Michael Petrilli, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, published a blog post on the implementation of ESSA under President-elect Trump. Petrilli argued that the administration would likely “rip up” some regulations that the Obama administration sought to implement. The new administration would likely “go...
The final deadline to submit public comments on the Dept. of Education’s draft “supplement, not supplant” rule was November 7. More than 3,400 comments had been submitted to the online platform.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition “charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights,” submitted comments to the Dept. of Education on the proposed “supplement, not supplant” rule. “Resource...
In response to the Dept. of Education’s proposed “supplement, not supplant,” the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released a proposal laying out alternative language. Formally submitted through the Dept. of Education’s online comment platform, the new language would “establish important guardrails” in order...
AASA, the School Superintendents Association, highlighted a joint letter on the Dept. of Education’s proposed “supplement, not supplant” regulations, which called them “far-reaching federal mandates” that are “in conflict with the spirit and intent of the underlying statute, which is premised on state and local...
Scott Sargrad, managing director of K-12 Education Policy for the Center for American Progress, testified in front of the U.S. House Education Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education on the “supplement, not supplant” rule under ESSA. Sargrad argued this new funding provision is...
In an interview with Education Week during his “Back to School” bus tour, Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. addresses concerns over vague language within ESSA. King acknowledges the different views over draft “supplement, not supplant” rules, but argues “no single member of Congress...
