WSJ Columnist Confused About School Improvement Grants vs State Standards
Wall Street Journal columnist Tawnell Hobbs, erroneously conflates cherry-picked state assessment data with a federal grant program to press the case that U.S. Secretary of Education-designee Betsy DeVos could use “reading and math scores [that] were essentially flat” over the last few years to “push her ideas for education.” The article notes that schools...
U.S. Dept of Education’s School Improvement Grants Had Nothing to Do With Common Core
The Department of Education released a study on its school improvement grant (SIG) initiative yesterday, a program started under President George W. Bush in 2001 that received a large increase of funding under the Obama Administration directing money to struggling schools, including those with low student achievement and graduation rates. However, the report found that...