WASHINGTON — Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after the Senate joined the House of Representatives in using the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a U.S. Department of
Education rule finalized last year that would clarify states» obligations under the Every Student... Read More
Not exact matches
The U.S. Department of
Education has
finalized its
rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.
Whether the Department of
Education is able to
finalize its proposed
rule on a change to a fiscal
rule in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) will have sweeping effects for all students in the United States.
Districts turned in the plans to county offices of
education by July 1; counties have until October to approve the documents, but that timeline has been truncated by a conflicting
rule requiring the plans to be
finalized before an Aug. 15 deadline for certifying district budgets.
That's why Redelman backs Indiana's new «REPA II» teacher licensing
rules, which the the State Board of
Education finalized earlier this month.
Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is in the middle of
finalizing regulations to implement the law, including a hotly contested
rule that would govern how districts allocate billions of federal dollars meant to educate poor children.