ASCD Responds to the House's First ESEA Bill
Late last week Rep. Hunter introduced the first in a series of House bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The bill eliminates 43 K–12 education programs in an effort to reduce federal education funding and address the problem of duplicative programs.
ASCD released an official statement about the bill, in which Director of Public Policy David Griffith expressed concern that the eliminated programs disproportionately affect a whole child approach to education.
“Eliminating programs that support physical education, arts education, school counselors, school leadership, and the Teaching American History program [among others] indicates that these important activities that promote healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged students are no longer a federal priority,” Griffith said.
Ultimately, the bill saves
Student Blog Launches to Offer Advice to Help Underserved Young People Reach College
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Twenty students who beat the odds to become first in their family to attend college have teamed up with nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity (CSO) to launch the new Opportunity Scholars blog. Their mission is to share their remarkable college journeys and offer advice to other underserved students like them on how to make it to college.
“Follow these students closely because they are shining examples of how to turn college dreams into reality,” said Matt Rubinoff, CSO’s executive director. “We hope that this blog helps the hundreds of thousands of underserved, low-income students understand that the opportunity for