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99 CIS H 34187
TITLE: Academic
Achievement for All: Increasing Flexibility and Improving Student Performance
and Accountability
CIS-NO: 99-H341-87
SOURCE: Committee on
Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: May 20, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+134 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-41
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial
No. 106-41. Hearing to examine the Academic Achievements for All (Straight A's)
proposal, to provide States and local school districts that choose to
participate in the Straight A's program with relief from categorical
requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(ESEA).
Under the Straight A's program, participating States and
districts would be allowed to use commingled State administered formula grant
funds for any educational purpose permitted by State law, in exchange for an
agreement to attain measurable student academic achievement objectives agreed
upon in advance by the participating entity and the Department of Education.
Supplementary material (p. 43-134) includes witnesses' written
statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Educ flexibility for elem
and secondary aid, State and local school dist option estab
DESCRIPTORS:
FEDERAL AID
TO STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION; EDUCATION
REGULATION; EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION; FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS; FEDERAL-LOCAL RELATIONS; STATE GOVERNMENTS;
PUBLIC SCHOOLS; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT;
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
99-H341-87 TESTIMONY NO: 1
May 20, 1999 p. 4-41, 49-129
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
FINN, CHESTER E., JR. (President, Thomas B. Fordham
Foundation)
SCHUNDLER, BRET (Mayor, Jersey City, N.J)
MOLONEY, WILLIAM J. (Commissioner, Colorado Department of
Education; also representing Education Leaders Council)
TANNER, RALPH M. (Kansas Representative, National
Conference of State Legislatures)
MARSHALL, JENNIFER
(Education Policy Analyst, Family Research Council)
STATEMENTS
AND DISCUSSION:
Explanation and merits of Straight A's
program; differing views on proposal to allow school districts to participate in
Straight A's program even if the State in which the district is located chooses
not to participate.
Anticipated benefits for public
education of ESEA reform under the Straight A's program proposal; importance of
flexibility in enabling States and local school districts to achieve student
performance improvements.
INSERTION:
--
Finn, C. E., Jr. (et al.), "Overview: Thirty-Four Years of Dashed Hopes" New
Directions: Federal Education Policy in the Twenty-First Century excerpt, Mar.
1999 (p. 63-78).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Educ
flexibility for elem and secondary aid, State and local school dist option estab
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
COLORADO DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS 
