{"id":8978,"date":"2019-10-23T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=8978"},"modified":"2021-03-27T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T17:24:14","slug":"more-candidate-education-platforming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=8978","title":{"rendered":"More candidate education platforming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have some thoughts about the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@teamwarren\/a-great-public-school-education-for-every-student-6d306f7f986b\">K-12 policy position<\/a> released by Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s campaign on Monday. The big story told in most reporting is about the quadrupling of federal aid to local schools under Title I, but I have some other observations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The plan firmly sees education policy as embedded in broader social policies. Here are some of the policy initiatives mentioned in Warren&#8217;s plan that would come from <em>outside<\/em> the U.S. Department of Education:<ul><li>Energy efficiency building upgrades<\/li><li>Housing plan grants for communities, tied to incentives to slow\/block restrictive zoning<\/li><li>Lead abatement<\/li><li>Rural broadband expansion<\/li><li>Excluding schools from immigration enforcement (by policy, not by practice as happened before the Trump administration)<\/li><li>More investigation of potential sham non-profit structures, by the IRS <\/li><li>Lobbying reforms that would also apply not just to the federal government but at any level of government receiving grants-in-aid. <\/li><li>Aggressive blocking of data mining by the Federal Trade Commission<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Much of the plan is regulatory and thus does not require legislative action. A substantial part of the regulatory part of the plan would reverse Office of Civil Rights actions under Betsy DeVos, but there are other regulatory actions embedded in the plan &#8212; most notably (to me), the declaration that integration would be an evidence-based intervention under ESSA. <\/li><li>Charter schools serving poor children would probably receive <strong>more<\/strong> funding under this plan than currently, because of the quadrupling of Title I aid. ((This will be a big surprise to everyone who looked primarily at the proposed zeroing out of federal aid for new charter schools and the plan&#8217;s discussion of for-profit charter schools and for-profit servicers with a cozy relationship to the schools.))<\/li><li>There appear to be three prominent targets of potential civil lawsuit and regulatory action by the Office of Civil Rights and\/or the Justice Department: violations of LGBTQ rights, close attention paid to academic expectations of students with disabilities, and attempts by wealthy, predominantly white communities to advance segregation by creating breakaway local districts. <\/li><li>The plan does not use <em>school to prison pipeline<\/em> as a term, but the <em>evidence-based school safety<\/em> paragraph is a direct result of the efforts of activists to tie disciplinary\/law-enforcement actions at schools to mass incarceration. Arguably, this is a bigger activist accomplishment than anything in the plan that teachers unions like. <\/li><li>The specific legislative items can be divided into two pieces: large spending\/reallocation promises (the expansion of funding for Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, most prominently); and some specific targeted legislation around public-employee collective bargaining (again, something outside the U.S. Department of Education), and expanding the right of private individuals to sue under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. <\/li><li>In the large spending proposals, there is somewhat squishy language about negotiation with schools and educators around rewriting the Title I aid formula and how $100 billion in Excellence Grants would be distributed. <\/li><li>The biggest lightning-rod issues written about thus far, and likely in the near future, are areas where the role of a Warren administration would be most circumscribed.<ul><li>I do not see Congress eliminating the current role of testing in ESSA\/ESEA &#8212; and the rest of standardized testing use is a matter of state and local policy.<\/li><li>Almost all charter-school policy is determined at the state level. <\/li><li>ESSA and politics would make it virtually impossible for the federal executive branch to require a culturally-responsive curriculum in states. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the longest education proposal thus far in the 2020 campaign, and like all comments I&#8217;ve seen thus far, this is incomplete, and I&#8217;ve found it hard to address the scope of the Warren plan. ((I have also not made any evaluative judgments, as I didn&#8217;t when <a href=\"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=8953\">discussing Bernie Sanders&#8217;s plan<\/a>.))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some thoughts about the K-12 policy position released by Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s campaign on Monday. The big story told in most reporting is about the quadrupling of federal aid to local schools under Title I, but I have some other observations:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-2kO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978","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=8978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}