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Federal Flash: May 21
A Little Known Fact About Federal Education Funding
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Federal Flash: May 29
A Closer Look at the Senate’s Bill to Rewrite NCLB
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Federal Role in Education: Historical Context
This animated short film will take you on a visual journey through the federal role in education throughout history.
This video is part of the Federal Education Policy badge. Check out the other videos to earn this badge!
- Introduction to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- What is the ESEA?
- What is the Federal Role in Education?
- The History of the Federal Role in Education
- What is the State and District Role in Education?
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The Federal Role Changes
Learn about the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965—the most significant federal legislation in the history of education. Jack Jennings, Author, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press, March 2015) talks about how ESEA was framed and how it has evolved to address the problems of fragmentation in a system of 14,000 independent school districts operating in fifty states.
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Influencing Congress
How can an ordinary person impact Congress? Jack Jennings, Author, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press, March 2015), dispels some of the mystery of Congress and shares sage advice on meeting with its members and their staff to influence action on federal education policies.
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Equity and the Origins of ESEA
Jack Jennings, Author, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press, March 2015), describes the influential role that the federal government has played in education since the 1960s. Jennings served as staff director and general counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor for almost three decades and later founded the Center on Education Policy. He provides the inside story on how the federal government adopted the pursuit of equity as the focus of its education policy.
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What is the Federal Role in Education?
Alliance president Bob Wise provides an overview of the federal role in education. This video is part of the Federal Education Policy badge. Check out the other videos to earn this badge!
- Federal Role in Education: Historical Context
- Introduction to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- What is the ESEA?
- The History of the Federal Role in Education
- What is the State and District Role in Education?
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Federal Flash: May 8, 2015
Presenting updates on the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Rewrite and Education Funding.
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Federal Flash: Congress Considers Free Community College, But What About Dual Enrollment?
The Biden Administration continues to support vaccine and mask requirements in public schools to ensure student and educator safety, while the U.S. Department of Education began efforts to collect data on the use of recovery funds. Meanwhile, committees in the House of Representatives released their proposals for the $3.5 trillion budget bill, the Build Back Better Act, including four years of additional public education through universal pre-K for three- and four-year-olds and two years of tuition-free community college. Though these Congressional efforts to expand public education are laudable, funds for early college programs and high school to postsecondary transition efforts should be included as well, so that free community college programs do not create perverse incentives against participation in college in high school programs.
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Broadening Support for Federal Aid
A specific challenge in developing federal policy is to find or build general support while concentrating on major problems that chiefly affect limited and often relatively powerless segments of the population. Jack Jennings, Author, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press, March 2015), reflects on the lessons learned about developing effective policies that can have widespread and profound effects.