New Title I Rules Focus on Standards and Assessment

By Mark Pitsch

Washington

States and school districts would be required to adopt academic standards and new assessments in order to take part in Title I, but they would have more latitude than ever before in administering the program, under proposed rules issued last week by the Education Department.

Many of the proposals for the federal compensatory-education program, published in the May 1 Federal Register, track the outcome of a so-called negotiated-rulemaking session held earlier this year....