Employees at the U.S. Department of Education won't face furloughs due to the cuts from sequestration, according to a memo sent to staff late this afternoon. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his team think furloughing staff wo...
Student loan interest rates are slated to jump from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent this summer, unless Congress and the administration do something to stop it. And there are a whole bunch of proposals out there to head off the interest rate ...
Until recently, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate education committee, and Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, the panel's top Republican, were in talks to see if there was any chance of getting a bipartisan bill to re...
Will this finally be the year that Congress actually reauthorizes the No Child Left Behind Act, which has been awaiting renewal for more than six years? Most folks aren't expecting that to happen, given how difficult it is to get anythin...
Of all of the issues StudentsFirst advocates for—from parent triggers to charter schools—common core isn't actually on the list.
Not that the organization and its founder, former District of Columbia schools chancellor Mic...
The nine California districts seeking their own version of a No Child Left Behind Act waiver plan to make significant changes to their request to increase their odds of winning this flexibility.
Armed with feedback from the U.S. Depar...
The fourth round of the Investing in Innovation program kicks into high gear today as the U.S. Department of Education announced rules for the "validation" and "scale-up" grants in the Federal Register.
Applications are due July 2 fro...
Two days ago, eight civil rights and disability groups sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urging him to reject the "CORE" waiver request for several California districts looking for their own version of flexibility ...
To get a waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana attested that it had adopted the Common Core State Standards and joined a consortium developing common tests.
Now, both are in doubt.
The state legislature approved and se...
Mother's Day may not be for another two weeks, but everyone in Washington is trying win over moms these days. After all, the congressional midterm election is right around the corner. (OK, fine, more than a year from now, but that's pret...
