Announcing the Fordham Institute's third annual Wonkathon. This year's topic: ESSA and parental choice
In 2014, we hosted our first-ever Wonkathon, which was dedicated to the subject of charter school policy.
In 2014, we hosted our first-ever Wonkathon, which was dedicated to the subject of charter school policy.
The whole point of the Every Student Succeeds Act was to revert financial and regulatory authority back to states after No Child Left Behind’s era of federal supremacy.
On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a full committee hearing titled “ESSA Implementation in States and School Districts: Perspectives from the U.S. Secretary of Education,” the first of a series of oversight hearings on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk refute the idea that CTE is at odds with college, critique draft ESSA regulations’ neglect of high-achievers, and discuss a New York City lawsuit alleging the city’s schools are unsafe. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern explains charter high schools’ effects on long-term attainment and earnings.
By Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D. and Brandon Wright