s Act, on Wednesday, following last weeks approval by the House. Obama said he will sign the bill, which as my colleague Lyndsey Layton reports here, will send significant education policy-making power back to states and local districts while maintaining limited federal oversight of education.
Date: Dec 09, 2015
Category: U.S.
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Not So "Common Core": The Reforming of Educational Reform
Lyndsey Layton of The Washington Post recently reported, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation) provided significant financial support and resources to facilitate this "state-led effort". Ms. Layton notes that the Gates Foundation spent more than $200 M not only to help develop t
Date: Jun 23, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Wonkbook: The real State of the Union question: Can any of it pass Congress?
4-year-old children into classrooms instead of keeping them at home or with a babysitterIn 2011, it spent a relatively small amount of money, $633million, on competitive grants for states to create high-quality preschool programs.Lyndsey Layton and Susan Svrluga in The Washington Post.
A European E. coli outbreak shows the US' vulnerability, reports Lyndsey Layton: "The bacterium that has killed more than a dozen Europeans, sickened nearly 2,000 more and raised international alarms would be legal if it were found on meat or poultry in the United States. If the bacterium were to co