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Direct linkWeintraub, Daniel – Education Next, 2008
When in 2006 California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a panel of education experts to recommend an overhaul of the state's troubled public schools, observers hoped the celebrity chief executive was about to bring his unique brand of postpartisan politics to an issue that sorely needed it. However, that optimism faded when Schwarzenegger,…
Descriptors: State Government, State Officials, Educational Change, Public Schools
Smith, Nelson – Education Next, 2007
"Reopening the school as a public charter school" is Option #1 on the list of NCLB's restructuring alternatives for failing schools. But this has not proved a popular choice. NCLB made the bold assumption that states and districts would voluntarily turn over the reins to charter operators. The authors of the legislation must have…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Officials, Charter Schools, School Districts
Peterson, Paul E.; Hess, Frederick M. – Education Next, 2006
While No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires all students to be "proficient" in math and reading by 2014, the precedent-setting 2002 federal law also allows each state to determine its own level of proficiency. It's an odd discordance at best. It has led to the bizarre situation in which some states achieve handsome proficiency results by…
Descriptors: State Standards, State Officials, Federal Legislation, Accountability
