Eduflack: Beginning of End for ESEA Reauth?:
"If one talks to those on Maryland Avenue, there has been a relatively steadfast belief that the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would be coming in the first half of 2010. Staff have been busy at work on the planning pieces. Most have been assuming that the framework developed for Race to the Top, particularly the four key pillars, would stand as the foundations of ESEA. And they've even been talking about dropping legislation after the start of the new year, with a goal of completing reauthorization before the summer recess.
But then we ran into major public comment with RttT, delaying the release of the final RFP by a month or two. We're now facing a similar push on common core standards, with the full K-12 draft standards now expected by the end of 2009, and moving to the states for implementation by mid-2010. Layer onto that i3 and other such pieces, and one has to ask if we have the stomach for ESEA reauthorization, with everything else, ed reform wise, that is happening."
"If one talks to those on Maryland Avenue, there has been a relatively steadfast belief that the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would be coming in the first half of 2010. Staff have been busy at work on the planning pieces. Most have been assuming that the framework developed for Race to the Top, particularly the four key pillars, would stand as the foundations of ESEA. And they've even been talking about dropping legislation after the start of the new year, with a goal of completing reauthorization before the summer recess.
But then we ran into major public comment with RttT, delaying the release of the final RFP by a month or two. We're now facing a similar push on common core standards, with the full K-12 draft standards now expected by the end of 2009, and moving to the states for implementation by mid-2010. Layer onto that i3 and other such pieces, and one has to ask if we have the stomach for ESEA reauthorization, with everything else, ed reform wise, that is happening."