Reauthorization News

One of the most important strategies of the President’s blueprint for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is its focus on one simple but transformative premise: great teachers matter. Decades of research indicates that the single most important school-based factor in a child’s education is the quality of the teaching he or she gets in the classroom. The quality of the train

Another school year is coming to a close, and schools across the country are still operating under the restrictive rules of No Child Left Behind.

The Obama Administration plans to provide regulatory flexibility around No Child Left Behind (NCLB) if Congress does not complete work on a reauthorization bill prior to the August recess, in order to help support reform efforts underway at the state and local level.

Secretary Duncan emphasized once again that we need to fix NCLB in real time, not Washington time.

This week, national organizations representing school boards, superintendents, principals, teachers, parents and other stakeholders sent Secretary of Education Arne Duncan a letter asking for regulatory relief from the No Child Left Behind Act.

Ed. Note: Mandy Grisham is an urban music educator from Memphis Tennessee, and a mother of two boys, ages five and two. She was a recent delegate to Parenting Magazine’s second annual meeting of the Mom Congress.

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Receiving input directly from educators is a high priority for the Department of Education and the Obama administration, which is why the White House recently invited a group of teachers to the White House to participate in a roundtable discussion as part of their “Champions of Change series: Winning the Future Across America.”  The White House’s weekly series spotlights individuals who have do