Spellings kowtows to creationists
According to the Miami Herald’s political blog, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings was chicken on science today. In Florida’s capital to boost NCLB (and Florida’s high-stakes accountability system), the blog reported that Spellings won’t speak the “e” word: …when asked whether the nation’s top education official has a position on whether evolution should be a […]
Sixth anniversary present for NCLB
So the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived the 2005 “unfunded mandate” NCLB lawsuit, and here is where things get interesting, because the original complaint is an interesting argument about statutory limits to the power of the purse, tied specifically to NCLB language that lifted mandates that were not paid for. Given the language […]