{"id":1069,"date":"2007-09-14T09:19:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2007-09-14T09:19:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T13:19:28","slug":"five-year-plans-and-ed-trust-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Five-Year Plans and Ed Trust flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trust it to AFT’s Michele McLaughlin<\/a> to find the hidden item in the Ed Trust statement<\/a> on Miller-McKeon’s draft Title I language<\/a>. Like many others, I had focused on the more belligerent language earlier:<\/p>\n

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Although the staff draft creates an accountability fig-leaf by preserving the requirement that all students reach proficiency in reading and mathematics by the 2013-14 school year, the heart of the law has been hollowed out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sting! But McLaughlin notes the following:<\/p>\n

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“Additional funding may be included, but money is not the sticking point,” says [Ed Trust VP Amy] Wilkins. “The 2013-14 deadline for proficiency is a powerful disincentive to raising standards. If we are going to ask states – and students – to climb a higher mountain, we need to give them more time to get there, and this bill draft does not do that.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

McLaughlin correctly notes the hint at flexibility that I (and almost everyone else) missed. In testifying at Monday’s hearing<\/a>, Ed Trust’s President Kati Haycock largely ignored Title I to focus on teacher issues. With the exception of data issues, the only pieces of Title I mentioned in her testimony were parts related to which teachers are where. <\/p>\n

Hmmn…<\/p>\n

I’ll ignore the positioning\/politicking questions to focus on one thing: There appears to be one less visible supporter for the rigid Five-Year Plannish elements of NCLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trust it to AFT’s Michele McLaughlin to find the hidden item in the Ed Trust statement on Miller-McKeon’s draft Title I language. Like many others, I had focused on the more belligerent language earlier: Although the staff draft creates an accountability fig-leaf by preserving the requirement that all students reach proficiency in reading and mathematics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-hf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}