Where
is Education Secretary Duncan’s Head?
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Today
Secretary Duncan canceled Washington State’s No Child Left Behind Waiver. Why?
Because Washington State’s ELECTED officials were not able to conform to Duncan
demands to DO IT HIS WAY (you know, the corporate way to privatizing Public
Education). I can’t decide if he is just Arne the Corporate Autocrat or he
doesn’t care. Either way there is a ton of money that is at stake with Duncan’s
withdrawal of the waiver. The big ticket item in this waiver is the SES - Supplemental Education Services which
can be up to 20% of Title I funds designated for the poorest students. This is
a program, by Sec. Duncan’s own admission, is a failure ( see links at the end
of this piece). It is a terrible waste of much needed funds. Arne the Corporate
Autocrat would rather continue to waste this money because Washington State won’t
knuckle under to his demands.
Recently
my district here in Sacramento withdrew from a district waiver similar to the
Washington State’s. The former Sacramento Superintendent, a Corporate Reformer,
a graduate of the Broad Academy said this about losing the waiver here in Sacramento:
“You can imagine my shock and sadness at hearing the news of the district’s decision to abandon its hard-earned waiver from the failed and punitive No Child Left Behind law. Equally distressing is the lack of discourse over what our children will lose, and the lack of outrage, empathy and courage from those in a community whose sole focus should be on protecting and advocating for the best interests of children. By giving up the No Child Left Behind waiver, here is what the children of Sacramento will lose:
• Sacramento City Unified will lose flexibility over the use of $4 million to support our most disadvantaged students.Roughly $4 million is wasted each year on ineffective supplemental education service providers – tutors approved by the state – who are not accountable to the district and over which Sacramento City Unified has no direct supervision. With the waiver, district schools and teachers could have used these dollars much more effectively to expand engaging after-school programs and offer summer experiences filled with civic and community engagement such as Summer of Service, and more.Without the waiver Sacramento City Unified no longer has the flexibility to give these students what they need and deserve – and families should be outraged.
• Sacramento City Unified will lose the ability to remove the label of “failure” that No Child Left Behind attached to three-quarters of Sacramento schools.NCLB labeled these schools failures because they did not reach every annual goal that the law set. But NCLB is a misguided and ineffective federal policy that labels students, schools and teachers based on unachievable and unrealistic goals. It doesn’t take into account children’s academic growth or other pertinent measures that demonstrate how greatly Sacramento City Unified schools have improved.Without the waiver, the dark cloud of “failure” will once again cloak Sacramento schools.”
Hopefully Sec
Duncan can find himself and extricate himself from this awful waiver game. The
American people deserve much better than having to waste money that is intended
for poor children on a failed program just because Sec. Duncan wants it his
way.
SES IS A MESS: Impacts of Title I Supplemental Educational Services on Student Achievement
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SES IS A MESS: Duncan to Florida: Tutoring Doesn't Work - Politics K-12 - Education Week
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 4 hours ago
Duncan to Florida: Tutoring Doesn't Work - Politics K-12 - Education Week: Duncan to Florida: Tutoring Doesn't Work By Alyson Klein on May 17, 2012 3:39 PM U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said today he doesn't understand why Florida passed a law requiring districts to continue offering free tutoring to students in struggling schools. Florida is one of 11 states that got a waiver from many of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. That means districts in the Sunshine State no longer have to put aside 20 percent of their Title I money for tutoring and school choice.... more »
The Education
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that exempts them the most onerous parts of the flawed No Child Left Behind
law. As a result, Washington state will now have to comply with all parts of No
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