Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Education funding still a sticking point on the war supplemental debate on the Hill. Quick recap: The substance of this is complicated but not all that exciting: Concerns about the deficit, concerns about the actual size of the problem (like the oil spill it’s hard to get good numbers on the teacher spill), concerns about …
More on the ins and outs of the proposed $23B for teacher jobs, from Politico. Someone missed their blocking assignment and now nerves are getting raw… Keep an eye on Ed Department – Hill relations overall for the next 6 -12 mos, a lot in play.
Keep an eye on where this strategy for coming up with funding for the education jobs bill goes…
Supplemental spending bill moving, so far sans teacher money. No LIFO reform talk mostly because the education money seems an unlikely outcome (and privately it’s astonishing how few people even buy the “crisis” talk anyway). In the Senate, education now pitted against Medicaid funds and it turns out all spending requests are equal, but …
You can read the tick tock from earlier in the week on the 23B here. Today it’s not looking good after the votes were not there at last night’s planned mark-up. Washington Post ed board comes down strongly for LIFO fixes. Christina Romer defends the Administration’s position on the opposite page. A lot of this …
Secretary Duncan reads Politico, too, and at today’s presser forcefully pushes back ($) on this morning’s story implying the administration isn’t committed on the $23 billion for education. He made the same points at a lunch in DC today, too. Update: More Politico: Some Department of Ed – OMB tension over the education components of …
Politico has the latest on where the proposed $23 billion for education in the approps bill stands. The Admin’s fervor does seem to have cooled as the pushback grew, but keep an eye on today’s afternoon presser with Obey-Miller-Duncan. In addition to the issues in the article you’re still hearing a lot of grumbling that …
New Wonkyfolk today. Jed and I talk through some of what’s going on. Here if you like to watch: Coming Attractions I’ll be at Harvard on Tuesday evening for an Askwith Forum to discuss developments at the Department of Education and the federal role in education. The event will be available online later—come in person …
Joe Biden is a centrist, and that he’s not more of an education reformer is less about him than the political environment reformers backed into. Centrism is one of those words that is in common usage but has an awful lot of definitions. It can mean practical, or politically moderate, someone whose views sort of …
Whiplash anyone? Here in Virginia, just a few weeks ago, really a couple of weeks, anyone who questioned masking in schools was regarded as indifferent to public health at best, straight up racist at worst. It was a big issue! Yesterday, the legislature passed bipartisan legislation that will prohibit school districts from mandating masking. That’s …
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