Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen has unveiled the framework of a program to fund charter schools that would spread the financial responsibility to every school district in the state.
The New York State Education Department will provide $22.5 million in School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the Buffalo City School District.
Rhode Island's Board of Governors for Higher Education and the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education officially merged on March 11 to become The Rhode Island Board of Education.
CCSSO Hosts Legislative Conference, March 17-19 in Washington, DC.
The Hawaii State Department of Education recently handed out a total of $1 million in Strive HI awards to 32 schools, which each received between $12,500 to $100,000. The awards -- which come from the state's Race to the Top federal grant -- recognize schools that have demonstrated significant academic progress for two consecutive years.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) continues to advocate for advancing the 21st Century Readiness Acts in the new 113th Congress. On February 12, P21 asked leaders in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to support of this legislation.
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) plans to award $9.2 million in grants through its readiness-to-learn initiative, with the money intended to help states create kindergarten-entry assessments. The DOE is focused on kindergarten-entry assessments that measure "children's learning and development across all the essential domains," meaning academic readiness, social skills, physical health, and emotional well-being.
President Barack Obama called for expanding access to preschool programs to just about every child in the country during his State of the Union address, but he offered almost no details about how Congress would pay for the plan. Additional details were outlined by the administration on Feb. 14, with funding coming mostly from the states via a partnership with the federal government.
Following the recent U.S. Senate hearing on the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers, New Jersey Education Commissioner Chris Cerf, New York Education Commissioner John King, Jr., and Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday engaged in a one-hour discussion about the waivers hosted by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
In a Feb. 4 letter to Congress, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the National Governors Association, the National School Boards Association, the National Association of Counties, the National League of Cities, and other organizations called for an update to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), stating that reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is "must pass" legislation.
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