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LWV Education Position: Greater Las Cruces New Mexico
by Bonnie Burn
Bonnie Burn is the past president of LWV of Greater Las Cruces, the leader of their Education Study, author of many of the education reports on www.lwvglc.org website, and architect of the position in its various versions. LWVNM will be considering adopting the position through concurrence at the January board meeting.
Time to Enjoy and Reflect on the Coming Year
This time of the year can make us feel we must run just to keep up with all that needs to be done. On the other hand, we can decide to slow down and enjoy the celebrations. I like these ‘enjoy the moment’ times and will not be posting much for the next week or so.
It will be useful to mull over what is the best use of our blog this next year. The changes in Congress will have an impact on education policy. No doubt states will have more control over how federal funds are spent and how accountable they will need to be. School choice programs will continue and perhaps escalate. Testing is likely to continue, but in what form? The debate over whether choice promotes quality will continue. Stay tuned….send your ideas on how to communicate the issues clearly, concisely, and fairly.
Remember to click the title of the post: Time to Enjoy… and scroll down to send your comments.
If Race to the Top loses, What is Lost? What is Gained?
Federal officials will tell you that education is a state responsibility, but federal dollars impact state policy.
So, if Race to the Top (RTT)
does lose it funding in the new Omnibus bill, what goes away?
What are the new education priorities in the bill? A listing from the U.S. Department of Education website gives a list of RTT grant initiatives that may be affected.
New priorities are set. School Improvement Grants (S.I.G.) remain.Continue reading
Video of Macke Raymond’s Presentation on Charters
If you would like to watch the video of Macke Raymond’s speech at the Cleveland Club, you can find it here. She names some states as having very strong authorizing procedures for charters: New York, Tennessee, D.C. and Massachusetts. She stresses the independence of boards. In Florida, some boards, particularly those that contract with for-profit management companies, are not independent. The specific reference to market driven reform is mid way through the Q & A part of her presentation. I have started looking at the strong authorization processes that these states use. Do any of our blog readers from these states have information to share?
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