Letter From the National Association of Secondary School Principals Urging Congress to Oppose U.S. Department of Education’s Misguided Models for School Reform
Attached and pasted below is a state organization sign-on letter from the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), urging Congress to oppose any expansion of the U.S. Department of Education’s misguided models for school reform. Instead of these models, we encourage Congress to embrace meaningful middle level and high school reform strategies during the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as detailed by the bills in this letter, and NASSP’s Breaking Ranks framework.
The Honorable George Miller The Honorable John Kline
2181 Rayburn House Office Building 2101 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington , DC 20515 Washington , DC 20515
March 26, 2010
Dear Chairman Miller and Ranking Member Kline:
On behalf of the nation’s middle level and high school principals, assistant principals, and other school leaders, the undersigned organizations urge Congress to oppose an expansion of the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) misguided models for school reform and instead embrace meaningful middle level and high school reform strategies during reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
When the School Improvement Grants (SIG) guidance was first released in August 2009, we urged ED officials to reconsider the four proposed models for education reform that would all require the principal’s replacement as a condition for receiving SIG funds. We believed that the Transformation Model provided the greatest hope for promoting genuine school improvement as it was built around the continuous use of data to inform instruction, developing
