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Download full textUS Government Accountability Office, 2016
Beginning in 2011, the Department of Education (Education) used its statutory authority to invite states to apply for waivers from certain provisions in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) through its Flexibility initiative. To receive Flexibility waivers, states had to agree to meet other requirements related to college- and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedKornhaber, Mindy L.; Barkauskas, Nikolaus J.; Griffith, Kelly M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The Common Core State Standards Initiative seeks to prepare all students to graduate high school without remedial needs, to improve transparency across states' accountability systems, and to foster efficiencies in the development and distribution of educational resources. The reform was adopted in more than 40 states and has been described as…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Federal Aid, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support
Direct linkChamp, Cheryl H. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2015
As part of the "American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009," the U.S. Department of Education sponsored the "Race to the Top" competition to encourage education reforms anchored in improving teacher effectiveness as a driver for improving student-achievement outcomes and closing achievement gaps. The New York State…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Organizational Culture, Program Implementation, Semi Structured Interviews
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2015
This master data collection protocol describes the data that Mathematica collected for the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Study of Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems. This study was conducted for the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. The data were collected from reviews of applications, documents, and…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Competition
Anderson, Kimberly; Mira, Mary Elizabeth – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2015
By 2012, all of the states in this study had started implementing new or revised teacher and leader evaluation systems. The systems include many and varying updates. In some cases, the updates were designed to meet conditions for a state's "Race to the Top" grant. In others, the updates were made to meet conditions for a state's waiver…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Administrator Evaluation, State Standards, State Policy
Venters, Monoka; Hauptli, Meghan V.; Cohen-Vogel, Lora – Educational Policy, 2012
Applying a Multiple Streams framework, the article documents the development and ultimate undoing of what became known as the national sales tax plan for education. The authors identify four factors that coalesced to lead the Nixon administration to propose replacing local property taxes with a federal value-added tax to finance K-12 education.…
Descriptors: Taxes, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Federal Programs
