Schools Chiefs Give Duncan Earful on ESEA, Race to Top, Standards
Even as they posed tough questions about government flexibility on overhauling low-performing schools and the disadvantages of having to compete for federal dollars, the states’ top education officials expressed broad support last week for how the Obama administration aims to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and offered their own ideas for how to renew the law.
“I think we’re off to a very compatible start,” Joseph Morton, Alabama’s state superintendent said at the annual legislative conference of the Council of Chief State School Officers. “When we get down to details is when we’ll know for sure how compatible we are.”
Susan Gendron, the education commissioner in Maine and the president of the CCSSO, said that the chiefs do have “a concern about mandating the right solution,” and that “innovation and flexibility” are essential to the debate over rewriting the ESEA, now known as the No...
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