Mitt Romney hasn’t said outright he’d dismiss the Obama administration’s No Child Left Behind waivers if elected president, but an advisor hinted that would be the case Monday night. Phil Handy “filled in many of the blanks” for those curious about Romney’s positions during an Education Week-sponsored debate in New York, writes Michele McNeil: The waivers are “not about flexibility. [...]
Emily Richmond has a list of buzzwords on the The Educated Reporter blog we might listen for during the first presidential debate in Denver tonight. It’s inevitable that education will come up, she writes, but don’t count on a long discussion: That’s not because the candidates don’t have anything to say on the issue, or that they don’t [...]
Forty-six states and the District of Columbia are on track to adopt the Common Core by 2014, but federal support for new academic standards is likely to diminish if Mitt Romney is elected in November. The Republican presidential candidate told NBC’s Brian Williams he doesn’t believe states should receive financial help to implement the changes, writes Alyson [...]
If cuts like those called for in the Ryan plan were to pass, Indiana districts would lose a grand total of $280 million in federal revenues. But no single Indiana district would lose more than 6 percent of their total revenues.
Keeping a close eye on what’s happening at the GOP convention in Tampa? We are, too. The Republican party platform released Tuesday reflects Mitt Romney’s plans for overhauling public education. Politics K-12, EdWeek‘s policy blog, offers a good primer on what a Romney presidency could mean for schools. On tap: More support for vouchers, technical [...]
As James E. Ryan writes for The New York Times‘ Campaign Stops blog, the education plan the Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney unveiled last week flies in the face of conventional wisdom on district boundaries: For the last half-century, just about every education reform — from desegregation to school choice — has taken care to [...]
According to political monitoring website, Real Clear Politics, Mitt Romney currently leads in all of the most recent Republican presidential primary polls by a margin of as much as 15 percent. With this in mind, StateImpact Indiana has decided to take a closer look at Romney’s education platform. Official Platform Romney’s official campaign website only [...]
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