History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Harkin’s Achievement Gap schools by the numbers
- 10-14-2011
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Blog by Anne Hyslop/The Quick & The Ed
More than any other provision of the Harkin-Enzi ESEA bill (synopsis here), the rollback of federal accountability for student performance in schools and districts (no more AYP and targets for student achievement, no strict consequences for schools that fail to make AYP) has gotten the most attention over the last two days. Civil rights’ groups hate it, teachers’ unions are okay with it, and I imagine states and districts are pretty thrilled. Instead of a federally-designed system, states will be able to create their own school accountability plan, so they’ll have much more control over what measures of achievement are included, what performance targets students must meet for a school to be “continually improving,” what designations schools could receive, and what interventions should be implemented in schools based on their designation. The Harkin-Enzi bill, however, does specify 3 categories of schools that must be included in each state’s accountability system: (more...)
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