News from PBS NewsHour: U.S. President Barack Obama sits with students during a tour of a Pre-K classroom at Powell Elementary School prior to speaking on the Fiscal Year 2015 budget in Washington, D.C. in March 2014. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Declaring early childhood education “one of the best investments we can [...]
News from Washington Times: President Obama (right), with Education Secretary Arne Duncan at his side, calls on Congress during a June 21, 2012, news conference at the White House to stop interest rates on student loans from doubling. (Associated Press) ** FILE ** more > continues on Washington Times >>> Read the full article . [...]
From preschool to high school, Obama seeking big progress in educationNews from Christian Science Monitor: This week the president announced ambitious plans for universal preschool access and high school curriculums tailored to the 21st century, but are Congress and the states interested? President Obama laid out an ambitious agenda for improving American K-12 education this week, linking [...]
No Child Left Behind Reauthorization Debate Likely To Continue In Obama …News from Huffington Post: In 2008, Barack Obama campaigned on the promise that his administration would oversee the rewriting of the expired No Child Left Behind Act. But four years later, education experts and legislators don’t see any end to the negotiations with and [...]
Obama, Biden launch initiative for military kidsNews from The Seattle Times: WASHINGTON — Madeline Stevens knows what it’s like to be a military brat. “The first week of school, it’s really hard,” said Stevens, a 17-year-old from Jacksonville, Fla., who has moved eight times with her naval aviator father and attended 10 different schools. “You [...]
Obama Frees 8 States From ‘No Child’ Education-Testing RulesNews from San Francisco Chronicle: (Updates to add Republican comment in sixth paragraph.) May 29 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama freed eight states from provisions of the No Child Left Behind education- testing law after they pledged to turn around low-performing schools and tie teacher evaluations to [...]
Why Romney, Obama are education twinsNews from Washington Post: Poor Mitt Romney. He appoints a splendid group of education policy advisers, smart people with great ideas. Then he learns that he has to give a speech explaining how he differs from President Obama on schools when those same advisers have spent their careers making that [...]
Obama takes tougher stance on higher educationNews from Sault Ste. Marie Evening News: Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people getting for their money? Students [...]
Obama Frees 10 States From “No Child” Education-Testing RulesNews from BusinessWeek: February 09, 2012, 5:19 PM EST Romney Supporters Hold Fire as Candidate Targets Santorum Republicans Move Toward Romney as Pace of Primaries Picks Up Goldman Sachs Joins Wall Street to Fund Romney Over Obama Romney Camp Prepares for Santorum Threat in Votes Tonight Obama [...]
Civil Rights Organizations to President Obama: Investment in Education Reform …News from Sacramento Bee: WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2012 – /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Campaign for High School Equity (CHSE), a coalition of leading civil rights and education advocacy organizations, is calling on President Obama to fully commit to investing in education reforms that are critical to [...]
