The December 2015 re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act required all states that wanted Title I money to help school districts with low-income students to develop and submit a four-year plan, under the control of the state’s education department. All state plans had to be “peer reviewed” by people chosen by the U.S. Department of Education and approved by the U.S. Secretary of Education. The bill, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, did not require or even suggest that these four-year state education plans be approved by a state’s elected legislators or by the elected local school board members in the state.
Interestingly, no state’s attorney general is on record as declaring the plan submitted by its state’s education department illegal or unconstitutional. No state attorney general pointed out that the federal government has no constitutional authority over a state’s education policies.
The federal government can require a state to be accountable via an audit for the funding it provides states for K-12 public education, mostly through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and other programs established by the federal Department of Education. (However, most of the money for K-12 — about 90 percent — comes from local and state funds provided by taxpayers in a state.) An audit enables the U.S. Department of Education to ensure that the funds Congress appropriates for K-12 education are used in the categories approved by the House and Senate appropriations committees. Audits were used for funds allotted under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act until about 2001, when the act was reauthorized by a bill called No Child Left Behind. Audits tied to disbursements of federal funds comport with common sense, but the U.S. Department of Education has no legal or statutory authority to impose educational policies or practices on states or school districts.
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It seems that the fed can do anything it wants with the education money it hoards and wastes. It should get out of the educational curriculum mandate business.
ReplyDeleteAdvancement to the next level without gaining the education offered in the previous level IS, in fact, leaving the child behind. QUIT ADVANCING THEM! When the elementary schools begin filling up with 14 year-old 3rd graders perhaps the powers that be AND the parents will wake their a$$es up.
ReplyDeleteWe can see that "No child is left behind", they are graduating everyone, even kids that were in class for just 12 days out of the year!
ReplyDeleteThey are just lazy. Kids don't want to learn. Teachers give up teaching , since they have to teach what Parents don't such as respect, manners etc.
ReplyDeleteCan't not pass or graduate stupid kids from certain races, you are then called a "Racist" for doing it.
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