Education Law

ED announces changes to Title I regs

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced changes this week to some of the Title I final regulations put in place under the previous administration last October, see a this letter to the state school chief officers.

These changes include:

• Repealing the requirement that states must revise their accountability workbooks for peer review, particulary reviewing their curre policy on N-size (minimum subgroup size) and confidence interval that affect the calculation of AYP;
• Allowing school districts identified for improvement to be SES (supplemental educational services) providers; and
• Giving school districts a one-year waiver on the requirement that they must notify parents about school choice options at least 14 days prior to the new school year if testing information is not available in a timely fashion (on a case-by-case basis).

In addition, NSBA is successful in making sure school districts will not have to put aside a significantly larger sum of funds for choice and SES under NCLB, see our concern in the letter to Duncan here. The secretary said he will consider a waiver that allows school districts to exclude the additional funding from the stimulus when determing the 20 percent set-aside funds for choice and SES.

NSBA applauds the secretary’s decision to revise some of the rules, but believes all the final rules enacted in the waning days of the previous administration should be deferred until the new administration has sufficient time to review them.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).