ED to Expand Salary-Data Collection
Michele McNeil has a very important post up on the U.S. Department of Education's plans to expand a data-collection requirement in the economic-stimulus bill.
The requirement essentially asks districts to provide information on disparities in expenditures on schools in the same district. Much of those disparities are caused by differentials in educators' salaries that often aren't taken into account.
As she writes, the expanded collection will be part of the Office of Civil Rights' biennial data collection, and might even become an annual requirement.
The odds are that, armed with this information, the administration can make a good case for changing the "comparability" requirement in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It has already signaled that it supports such a change in its ESEA blueprint.
(See here, here and here for background on the comparability requirements if you're coming to this for the first
The requirement essentially asks districts to provide information on disparities in expenditures on schools in the same district. Much of those disparities are caused by differentials in educators' salaries that often aren't taken into account.
As she writes, the expanded collection will be part of the Office of Civil Rights' biennial data collection, and might even become an annual requirement.
The odds are that, armed with this information, the administration can make a good case for changing the "comparability" requirement in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It has already signaled that it supports such a change in its ESEA blueprint.
(See here, here and here for background on the comparability requirements if you're coming to this for the first
