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January 29, 2008
Haven't we seen this movie before?The good news is that President Bush utilized his final State of the Union address to mention education. The bad news? We've heard a lot of this before, including the D.O.A. idea of a national voucher program. Now, if next week the President's budget includes a substantial increase in funding for the No Child Left Behind Act, then maybe Congress and the administration will be able to seriously tackle the challenge of reauthorizing the broken law in 2008. BoardBuzz has expressed why we think major changes are needed now instead of forcing students, educators and schools to suffer under a flawed system for another 2 or 3 school years.
And vouchers, again? Really? No chance and everyone knows it. When will the administration realize it undercuts its own arguments about school accountability every time it promotes sending taxpayer dollars to private schools that are not accountable to the public?
NSBA Executive Director Anne L. Bryant issued this statement on the State of the Union.
Posted January 29, 2008 3:40 PM | Advocacy & Legislation
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Posted by: paul baker on January 30, 2008 11:41 AM
Of particular concern are Supplemental Educational Services and the fact that few efforts have been undertaken to evaluate them. Professor Patricia Burch at the U of Wisconsin-Madison has recommended amending the law so that:
Local administrators have more fiscal resources and expertise to administer SES programs;
Federally funded, comprehensive evaluations are commissioned to determine the ways in which SES affect student achievement and the extent to which at-risk student populations have access to SES; and
Policymakers examine the apparent tension between the high-stakes accountability NCLB imposes on schools and the more limited accountability it imposes on SES providers for their contributions to student achievement.
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