The Saga Continues – How To Get Accountability Funds Without The Strings of Accountability?
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
The Nevada teachers’ union (and others) would like for Nevada to get special funding from the federal government. The problem is that the teachers’ union, working with Nevada legislators passed a law that says that teachers can’t be evaluated by the performance of their students. How do we get to grab the federal money without actually having to measuring up?
From the looks of this piece from the Nevada News Bureau – you work closely with U.S. Senator Harry Reid and hope that he can "persuade" the federal bureaucrats to go along. Is this like grabbing the money and not having to be accountable after all? Senator Reid will deliver?
Maybe to get the “Race to the Top” federal dollars the best approach would be accomplished by just deleting the current law – the one with the problems – from state law. Then again, that might not be what the teachers union wants either… that “cake and eating it too” can be problematic…
The Nevada teachers’ union (and others) would like for Nevada to get special funding from the federal government. The problem is that the teachers’ union, working with Nevada legislators passed a law that says that teachers can’t be evaluated by the performance of their students. How do we get to grab the federal money without actually having to measuring up?
From the looks of this piece from the Nevada News Bureau – you work closely with U.S. Senator Harry Reid and hope that he can "persuade" the federal bureaucrats to go along. Is this like grabbing the money and not having to be accountable after all? Senator Reid will deliver?
Maybe to get the “Race to the Top” federal dollars the best approach would be accomplished by just deleting the current law – the one with the problems – from state law. Then again, that might not be what the teachers union wants either… that “cake and eating it too” can be problematic…
Posted by Doug Busselman at 12/9/2009 3:19 PM 
Categories: Nevada Educational Funding
Tags: Nevada Nevada Educational Budgets Race to the Top federal funds
Categories: Nevada Educational Funding
Tags: Nevada Nevada Educational Budgets Race to the Top federal funds
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