• Today's Maxim RT @POWERORGmath: Inspired to Do More, Be More to Help Others Succeed! ~ @LaToniyaAJones (Founder) #
  • RT @POWERORGmath: Math in Literature: Family Math Affairs coming to Detroit next Sat 3/19 at Northwest Activity Center #
  • My latest column: Juvenile Abuse (Scandals w/in the nation's #juvenilejustice systems) (RT @AmSpec) #edreform #
  • RT @ChildFindMich: At Dropout Nation: The Condemnation of Black Children to Dropout Factories Must End #edreform #edgap #
  • At Dropout Nation: Wisconsin, Collective Bargaining & the Teachers Compensation Battles to Come #edreform #teachers #
  • The Dropout Nation Podcast: Clear Out the Wastelands of #Education #edreform #JuvenileJustice #AlternativeEd #
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  • At CAP/AEI's Title 1 Conference #
  • Right now, the topic of conversation is the comparability/supplanting issues in Title 1. #
  • "Instead of [supplement not supplant] being a fiscal rule, it becomes a psychological issue". A state can try to implement a reform… #
  • And end up putting a district in violation of Title 1, according to Melissa Junge. #
  • What happens is that the regs can end up leading schools to spend $ on field trips and T-shirts than on real programs, according to Junge. #
  • Junge argues for three potential solutions to deal w/comparability-supplement-supplant. One is a Title 1 allocation neutral test. #
  • Another is to allow states and DOE to waive the federal supplement-not-supplant rules. The problem is what would replace it? #
  • New America's Jennifer Cohen: school districts use student-teacher ratios to prove comparability. But districts can end up ignoring salary #
  • Differentials, essentially ignoring the reality that teachers are using their seniority privileges to skip out of the poorest schools. #
  • Cohen's study on Title 1 comparability examines both teacher salaries and actual per-pupil spending. #
  • Everuy 10 percent increase in free-reduced lunch equals a $213 decrease in teacher salaries. Essentially low-income … http://tmi.me/7znMZ #
  • Cohen: Low income schools do get $56 increase in spending. But that includes Title 1. Essentially, districts are … http://tmi.me/7zo55 #
  • Cohen: school districts are using Title 1 to provide parity to schools serving poor kids. #
  • Cohen: "Comparability isn't ensuring that schools are achieving parity" #
  • Cohen suggests that fed should require districts to show comparability in actual expenditure data and include info … http://tmi.me/7zozy #
  • RT @Trace_Urdan: #4profit lobbying/campaign $ and @SenatorHarkin abuse of chairmanship to bully company w/o due … http://tmi.me/7zoBZ #
  • Tony Smith: "Compliance is different from accountability… A major part of central office is based on compliance" #
  • Tony Smith argues for SES dollars to be sent to districts directly instead of through state b/c he feels that … http://tmi.me/7zp6G #
  • Smith argues for weighted student allocations based on child instead of site. Also notes that allocations for family engagement is too small #
  • Too much blame on poverty by Smith instead of dealing with the systemic problems w/in Oakland and other districts. #
  • Smith: "Right now, highly qualified teaching (in NCLB) is about the credential. We have to move beyond the credential." #
  • RT @amyalkon: The unintended consequences of school drug rules strike again. Girl suspended for having acne meds in … http://tmi.me/7zqrq #
  • Junge: argues that urban districts deal w/so much paperworl b/c of Title 1 that suburban districts get more flexibility (and monitoring). #
  • Junge "(Supplement not supplant) is the biggest issue facing Title 1." Junge argues that it keeps districts from developing HQ instruction #
  • @SteveTanksley Oakland isn't different from many districts w/high levels of poverty. They all share the same issues: Low quality everywhere in reply to SteveTanksley #
  • @SteveTanksley in instruction, leadership, curricula and expectations. And you have great teachers who struggle alongside muck all over. in reply to SteveTanksley #
  • @SteveTanksley If you don't like the critique of smith's argument, that's fine. But what he said is still an excuse. And it's not helping in reply to SteveTanksley #
  • @SteveTanksley good-to-great teachers or students. Or you. in reply to SteveTanksley #
  • @alexanderrusso well, alexander, if they're not good enough to be in the classroom, then they should go. High quality work is the only in reply to alexanderrusso #
  • @alexanderrusso protection that one has in any situation in which you don't work for yourself. Ending LIFO is an acceptance of reality. in reply to alexanderrusso #
  • @alexanderrusso It doesn't work for kids or for high quality teachers. Or for taxpayers or districts. in reply to alexanderrusso #
  • Cindy Brown on ed spending: "We have been much too focused on what we put in and not what we get out." #
  • Could a district get a safe harbor/peemptive ruling from DOE supporting a Title 1 program? Junge says no b/c states are the conduit. #
  • Junge says that if a state doesn't want to allow the district to deviate from the co$plance mentality, it won't get approved. #
  • Juvenile Abuse (RiShawn Biddle on scandals w/in the nation's #juvenilejustice systems) (RT @AmSpec) #edreform #
  • RT @BE_PURE: My latest column: Juvenile Abuse (Scandals w/in the nation's #juvenilejustice systems) #edreform #
  • RT @harlemlink: Believe in kids, even with outrageous behaviors; fight the FAE. New blog post #edreform #
  • James Guthrie: Argues that #ParentPower only happens when states are required to use IEPs or when school choice is extended. #
  • "Unless you empower parents with something that has meaning, it won't work… If you let parents choose thei… (cont) http://deck.ly/~RcUs3 #
  • Two More Thoughts on Education This Week: The John and Arne Accountability Show #edreform #AYP/#NoChild/#ESEA #edpolicy #
  • The Dropout Nation Podcast: Clear Out the Wastelands of #Education #edreform #JuvenileJustice #
  • RT @parentrev: FAQ about Parent Rev with our Organizing Director, Pat DeTemple, on the blog this AM http://t.co/e3YNG4r #
  • Juvenile Abuse (RiShawn Biddle on scandals w/in the nation's #juvenilejustice systems) (RT @AmSpec) #BlackEdu #
  • John Fullerton: School IT systems focus so much on compliance that data for accountability, student achievement doesn't exist. #
  • Fullerton: also notes that the spending timelunes are so constrained b/c of compliance that Title 1 $ gets carried over by poor districts. #
  • Fullerton: argues for comparability to be focused on management-driven results data and more accurate. But data systems will need fixing. #
  • Fullerton wonders if states could end up handling the compliance work, moving it away from districts. #
  • RiShawn Biddle/Dropout Nation Letter: Juvenile Abuse, Arne and John Kline's Accountability Show http://conta.cc/fRMkaH via #constantcontact #
  • Fullerton: "No solution can fully overcome the cost of distrust btwn government entities. And there should be some distrust." #
  • RT @CatalystChicago: Bills on vouchers, charters, CEO credentials proposed for Chicago schools #edreform #RahmEmanuel #
  • West: Argues that #NoChild #ESEA has led to gains in student achievement, but at high fiscal cost. #
  • West also notes that the public is "woefully underinformed about the amount of money spent on education". #
  • West notes surveyed people state that school spending is around $2K per kid, far less than actual per-pupil spending. #
  • West: the goal should be to improve student achievement and productivity. This means adding financial measures to student achievement. #
  • This could mean high-spending, low-performing districts would be overhauled; same for low-spending, low-achieving districts. #
  • West also notes that Texas is one of the few states engaged in this effort. #
  • West notes that states do try to account for student characteristics in school funding. But the wide differences in spending at various #
  • Levels means that the numbers are pulled "out of thin air". #
  • Diane Piche: "When we talk about the kids who almost always get left behind, it's not about the science. It's about the politics." #
  • Piche: "I think we need to have more from the system. We have to have more transparency. We have to have communication (to families)." #
  • Piche: "There's no reason for trust (in American public education from parents and families)." #
  • Piche of LCCR: argues for more #ParentTrigger laws and stronger parent right to know laws. #
  • Piche: Opposes retreat of #AYP also argues that "loosening the strings" almost always means less accountability. #
  • Piche: Perhaps Title 1 $ should be diverted from schools to more tutoring,out-of-school work. Especially if accountability is scaled back. #
  • Winkler argues for incentives for accurate reporting and transparency. Also says the link btwn Title 1 and honest reporting should be broken #
  • Piche: counters Winkler. Argues that there needs to be a link btwn transparency and Title 1. Also thins equity must be part of the equation #
  • Piche argues that DOE should require states to provide transparency after reauthorization and withhold money until it happens. #
  • Fullerton: argues that it isn't politically feasible. #
  • Piche; "You need the transparency so people kow that money is being spent in practical ways." #
  • Piche: Notes that supplement-not-supplant isn't nearly the problem some make it out to be. Program/categorical funding by states is problem #
  • Winkler: argues that comparability just becomes a game of putting people in places in order to meet compliance. #
  • Piche: personally opposes school closures. Argues that it loses goodwill in communitiesm "inevitably, the schools … http://tmi.me/7zPpI #
  • The schools can serve as centers for families who are dealing w/other issues. #
  • Piche: "It's an issue of trust (in school closures)" #
  • RT @matthewktabor: @wmchamberlain Thanks – we really need to get more ed policy/reform podcasts. I love @Dropo… (cont) http://deck.ly/~92Iz0 #
  • @matthewktabor @wmchamberlain And if you are interested, you can check out this week's Dropout Nation Podcast at #
  • @matthewktabor Thanks, Matthew. in reply to matthewktabor #
  • RT @dave_y: The David Yaggi Daily is out! ? Top stories today via @dropoutnation @frauenfelder @lmtv #edreform #
  • RT @redefinEDonline: Some thoughts on the federal role in #edpolicy and #edreform from @tvanderark and @dropoutnation #
  • The Dropout Nation Podcast: Clear Out the Wastelands of #Education #edreform #JuvenileJustice #FosterCare #
  • No matter your politics, the nation's #juvenilejustice systems are a scandal #edreform Related: #
  • @TheRebull Actually, it's not all that shocking. Really not. in reply to TheRebull #
  • The Dropout Nation Podcast: Clear Out the Wastelands of #Education #edreform #AltEd #
  • At Dropout Nation: Two More Thoughts on Education This Week: The John and Arne Accountability Show #edreform #NoChild #
  • At Dropout Nation: The Condemnation of Black Children to Dropout Factories Must End #edreform #edgap #
  • RT @harvinmoore: #EdReform Daily News is out! #

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