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New focus on equity in states’ funding
- 04-25-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Through incentive grants and tougher regulations, the federal Department of Education is considering a more muscular approach to pushing states to make funding more equitable for poor and minority children. For now, it will wait on recommendations of the 27-member Equity and Excellence Commission, which held the first of several nationwide hearings last week in San Jose. But Russlynn Ali, the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, indicated at the hearing, and more explicitly in an interview afterward, that she and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan clearly have some ideas in mind. These ideas include creating competitive, Race to the Top-like grants for districts and states to change their funding methods and setting new conditions, in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for the receipt of Title I dollars. (more...)
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