Education Law

NSBA to Feds: Facilitate, Don't Dictate

NSBA has released its vision for redefining the federal role in education and how the Obama administration can make education an urgent national priority, as outlined in a new paper "A New Era in Education."

The paper recommends an immediate reevaluation of the federal role to better reflect the need to partner with and support states and local school districts in their efforts to prepare all students to succeed in the 21st century economy. This means more than just funding programs directed to students with the greatest needs, but also providing reliable research and best practices linked to improving student achievement; assistance in the development of state and local evaluation tools to measure success, including 21st century skills; and, providing incentives to recruit, retain and reward highly effective teachers in schools that most need them.

?What we?d like to see is for the federal government to facilitate, not dictate, the necessary actions and innovations that are needed in order to guarantee that all of our public schools thrive,? NSBA Executive Director Anne L. Bryant said in a statement.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).