Calif. Supplemental Ed. Providers Lose Under NCLB Waiver
 |
| DUH! |
Providers of supplemental education services in the Golden State had the ground shift beneath them this week when the U.S. Department of Education granted a No Child Left Behind Act waiver to eight California districts that together educate 1 million students.
With the one-year waiver granted at the 11th hour before school opens, the providers of tutoring services will almost certainly face lost business as they have in states that received waivers, where decisions have been made to use the freed-up Title I set-aside funding for other purposes.
The eight districts—Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sanger, and Santa Ana—petitioned for the waiver under a collaborative partnership called the California Office to Reform Education, or CORE. Sacramento has already announced plans to cancel provision of so-called "SES" funding, and Fresno will limit the number of providers to the three it chooses, freeing up between $3 million and $4 million in funding, as Lesli Maxwell reports in today's District Dossier blog post. About $150 million in funding among all eight districts can now be spent as the districts see fit, under the wavier.
Dozens of SES providers in California, where about 300 SES providers are approved by the