Education is big business. These are stories about the politicians, businesses, lobbyists and other leaders seeking to impact education decisions.
Gerard Robinson, Florida’s new Commissioner of Education, has started a blog. What topics do you want to see him address? Add your thoughts to the comments.
A Boca Raton group said they will sue Gov. Rick Scott over how the state chooses its textbooks, according to the St. Petersburg Times. “The group says the new textbook adoption process does not provide for enough time, readers or transparency relating to decisions on appropriate subject materials in schools. “It is not possible for […]
Education groups have spent $47 million lobbying the federal government through the first half of 2011, according to Center for Responsive Politics research, as Congress and the federal education department try to decide how to deal with the long-overdue reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. The group reports that $3 million more was spent on […]
Congress needs to reauthorize federal No Child Left Behind education standards, but President Barack Obama is growing tired of waiting. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said a month ago that the agency planned to issue waivers to exempt some states from NCLB requirements as many states claim a high percentage of their schools will fail […]
Two years ago the non-profit group that oversees Florida’s tax credit scholarship program for low-income students cut off applications in December. Last year the cut off came in October. This year Step Up for Students ran out of space on May 22 — after just seven weeks of enrollment. Last year the program provided 34,600 […]
New Mexico Democrats are skeptical of Hanna Skandera, candidate for the state’s top education post, and her ties to the Foundation For Excellence in Education founded by former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Several legislators were concerned Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education has too much influence. “It sounds […]
Anytime a possible presidential candidate mixes with an early primary state, such as Iowa, national news is guaranteed. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, knows this and said at a stop in Des Moines he wanted to use his bully pulpit to push for education reform — his last agenda item this year. Much […]
That’s the question the Wall Street Journal asks in their weekend interview with the Microsoft founder and education philanthropist. Gates admits a $100 million program to create smaller high schools did not work as well as hoped: “But the overall impact of the intervention, particularly the measure we care most about—whether you go to college—it […]
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