News Briefs
Online petitioners are urging President-elect Barack Obama to appoint Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University education professor and an adviser to the Obama presidential campaign, as secretary of education.
November 19, 2008
As Washington was bracing for Election Day, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings traveled to Oman and the United Arab Emirates to talk about the importance of ensuring that all the world’s students have access to a high-quality education.
November 10, 2008
The presidents of both national teachers’ unions told a House panel last week that investing in school facilities could help put the economy on a firmer footing.
November 4, 2008
The Department of Education soon will publish new regulations that require states to improve the way they calculate and report high school graduation rates.
October 27, 2008
Leading up up to the 2006 Congressional and gubernatorial elections, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings traveled 19 times to give a boost to Republican candidates, according to a draft report released last week.
October 20, 2008
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, known for her laser-like focus on the issues of student assessment and school accountability, turned her attention to performance pay at an Oct. 8 forum.
October 13, 2008
Little information exists on whether the $3 billion spent annually has improved the effectiveness of U.S. educators, a report says.
November 19, 2008
A case about a small religious sect’s efforts to display a monument with its principles in a city park has implications for free-speech and establishment-of-religion questions in public schools.
November 18, 2008
While President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team works behind closed doors, education groups are openly trying to influence the next administration’s K-12 policies.
November 18, 2008
Although some state officials have complained that collecting the required data diverts time and money away from educating students with disabilities, federal officials have said plainly that they disagree.
November 14, 2008
President-elect Obama can look forward to working with a beefed-up Democratic majority in Congress when he seeks to enact his education agenda after taking office in January.
November 11, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court last week heard arguments in a case that is the latest challenge to one of the ways teachers’ unions amass their political war chests.
November 10, 2008
The Democrat’s sweeping Election-Day triumph may lift the prospects for his K-12 policy plans.
November 7, 2008
High school students in the Washington area celebrate and dissect the meaning of the nation’s first black president-elect.
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