Education News – Kristin Decarr
“Two Republican senators from Tennessee and South Carolina are teaming up in an attempt to rewrite federal education law, including pushing for greater access to school choice. The recent draft of the K-12 education bill includes a provision that would use $14.5 billion in federal Title I money to offer 11 million low-income students $1,300 to enable them to choose the public school of their choice. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina would like to see even more included in the bill in coming drafts. Offering parents more choice in the school they choose to send their child to would be one of the most controversial parts of the attempted rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.”(more)