/george-w-bush George W. Bush en-US 2021 (c) Education Week Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:54:32 GMT /policy-politics/george-h-w-bush-the-education-president-dies-at-94/2018/12 The 41st president of the U.S., he spearheaded a historic 1989 summit meeting with governors that helped propel the standards-based education improvement movement. Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:54:32 GMT /policy-politics/george-h-w-bush-the-education-president-dies-at-94/2018/12 /policy-politics/year-one-check-in-whats-trump-done-on-k-12-compared-to-other-presidents/2018/01 When it comes to legislative victories and policy accomplishments, President Donald Trump doesn't seem to have gotten as much accomplished on K-12 as his recent predecessors. Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:00:08 GMT /policy-politics/year-one-check-in-whats-trump-done-on-k-12-compared-to-other-presidents/2018/01 /policy-politics/as-bush-spellings-exit-they-put-last-signatures-on-no-child-left-behind/2009/01 Outgoing Secretary Spellings approves more states for flexibility and tells each state where it stands under the federal education law. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:19:18 GMT /policy-politics/as-bush-spellings-exit-they-put-last-signatures-on-no-child-left-behind/2009/01 /policy-politics/bush-calls-for-resolve-on-nclb-renewal/2009/01 President George W. Bush acknowledged criticism of the law, but called on lawmakers to continue to hold schools accountable for students’ progress. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:03:07 GMT /policy-politics/bush-calls-for-resolve-on-nclb-renewal/2009/01 /policy-politics/bush-impact-on-schools-to-outlive-term/2008/12 NCLB is Bush’s top domestic legacy. The president pressed for the school accountability law from the beginning. Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:05:33 GMT /policy-politics/bush-impact-on-schools-to-outlive-term/2008/12 /policy-politics/kennedy-faults-bush-justice-dept/2008/10 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., has published an article criticizing the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, including its oversight of school desegregation cases and other education issues. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:55:26 GMT /policy-politics/kennedy-faults-bush-justice-dept/2008/10 /policy-politics/democrats-aim-to-resist-bush-budget/2008/02 The outcome of this year’s budget showdown could hinge on the November election, not on a compromise between the White House and Capitol Hill. Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:55:51 GMT /policy-politics/democrats-aim-to-resist-bush-budget/2008/02 /policy-politics/bushs-latest-voucher-idea-may-face-same-fate-as-others/2008/02 The ‘Pell Grant for Kids’ plan is being criticized by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:52:51 GMT /policy-politics/bushs-latest-voucher-idea-may-face-same-fate-as-others/2008/02 /policy-politics/bush-budget-proposes-level-funding-of-education-dept/2008/02 The U.S. Department of Education’s overall budget would remain stagnant at $59.2 billion under a fiscal year 2009 proposal released by President Bush that includes a modest boost for Title I grants to school districts. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:18:01 GMT /policy-politics/bush-budget-proposes-level-funding-of-education-dept/2008/02 /policy-politics/bush-calls-for-nclb-renewal-pell-grants-for-kids/2008/01 Some members of Congress said the proposal appeared to be another attempt by the Bush administration to secure federal funding for private school vouchers. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:57:10 GMT /policy-politics/bush-calls-for-nclb-renewal-pell-grants-for-kids/2008/01 /policy-politics/bush-presses-nclb-renewal-on-his-terms/2008/01 As the federal law turned 6 years old this month, a top Democrat signaled that he would seek far-reaching changes, while President Bush suggested he would favor less dramatic revisions. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:44:13 GMT /policy-politics/bush-presses-nclb-renewal-on-his-terms/2008/01 /policy-politics/jousting-continues-over-budget-increase-for-education/2007/11 President Bush has pledged to veto a measure passed by Congress because it contains more money than he requested for education, health, and labor programs. Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:14:47 GMT /policy-politics/jousting-continues-over-budget-increase-for-education/2007/11 /policy-politics/bush-says-he-would-veto-nclb-reauthorization-bill-that-lacked-key-elements/2007/10 This week marked the first time President Bush said he would veto a reauthorization bill that did not include the accountability rules and school choice measures that he favors. Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:39:52 GMT /policy-politics/bush-says-he-would-veto-nclb-reauthorization-bill-that-lacked-key-elements/2007/10 /education/opinion-veto-threat-over-nclb-reauthorization/2007/10 It seemed like it was coming, what with Spellings hinting at it last month and all the fun that's been had over the SCHIP veto. And this President has never lacked for confidence, warranted or not. So, yesterday, the President said he'd veto any effort to reauthorize NCLB without maintaining its main provisions (President Bush Discusses The Budget): Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:57:13 GMT /education/opinion-veto-threat-over-nclb-reauthorization/2007/10 /education/opinion-bushs-no-name-cabinet/2007/10 Slate magazine recently ran this piece about how unknown most of Bush's cabinet are, even compared to other unknown cabinets (A Bush Cabinet quiz). Much of it is due to the fact that, so late into a second term, only the most desperate opportunists are clamoring to join the Administration. The other, according to the article, is that so much of Bush's domestic agenda (such as it is) came from Karl Rove, not the DPC (currently headed by Karl Zinsmeister) or the departments themselves. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:09:00 GMT /education/opinion-bushs-no-name-cabinet/2007/10 /education/opinion-spellings-spills-to-national-journal/2007/10 There's not much that's really new or interesting in too many education stories these days, but not so in National Journal's Q and A with Secretary Spellings from Friday (Improving on '99.9% Pure' $$). In an interview with reporter Lisa Caruso (pictured), Spellings mocks multiple measures as do-it-yourself school reform, says that more money for NCLB will only come with a new iteration of the law, walks back from earlier statements about preferring current law to the Miller proposal, declines to apologize for the infamous Ivory Soap remark, and explains the origin of her Bush nickname. That's good stuff. The only thing missing from Caruso's piece is an in-depth analysis of what Spellings was wearing. (The black pantsuit? The big broach?) Find a friend who has a subscription. Related post here. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:48:06 GMT /education/opinion-spellings-spills-to-national-journal/2007/10 /education/opinion-president-announces-new-nclb-strategery/2007/10 From the White House NCLB event going on right about now: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:02:49 GMT /education/opinion-president-announces-new-nclb-strategery/2007/10 /education/opinion-white-house-nclb-event-later-today/2007/10 I don't know who the attendees are yet, but the President and the EdSec are doing a White House event on NCLB today in the Roosevelt Room, followed by a Rose Garden statement by the Prez. Stay tuned. Could be fun. Feel free to email snarky comments or fashion tidbits if you're there. That's what BlackBerrys are for. (thisweekineducation at gmail dot com, or 312-286-9242) Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:14:02 GMT /education/opinion-white-house-nclb-event-later-today/2007/10 /education/opinion-george-w-bush-was-mainstreamed-says-conservative-columnist/2007/10 Everyone hates conservative columnist Ann Coulter right now (she recently joked that perhaps women shouldn't get to vote). But she did write something a little funnier in her new book: "“President George W. Bush is evidently the first mentally retarded person to get a Harvard M.B.A., graduate from the U.S. Air Force Flight School, be elected governor of Texas and then be elected President of the United States twice. I Guess that's what they call 'mainstreaming.'” Yikes. Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:45:39 GMT /education/opinion-george-w-bush-was-mainstreamed-says-conservative-columnist/2007/10 /education/opinion-will-universal-preschool-get-s-chiped/2007/10 Universal preschool is going to be education campaign issue Number One, says Richard Whitmire (Preschool) based on all the proposals out there. Many would agree with him. But the recent Presidential veto of the S-CHIP shows that it might not be so easy to get something done. President Bush vetoed the S-CHIP on the grounds that it doesn't focus on the poorest kids who already have preschool and creates a major new "entitlement" program. Of course, politics play a part and Bush will not be there in the future, but the struggle shows just how difficult it is to get new programs created even when little kids are involved. Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:21:04 GMT /education/opinion-will-universal-preschool-get-s-chiped/2007/10 /education/opinion-secstate-rice-visits-harlem-school/2007/10 "The secretary and the veteran Democratic congressman made a bit of an odd couple in the school, also known as the Harriet Tubman School, which is in his district, just steps from his local office...But to hear her explain it, the success of schools is as much a part of national security as, say, negotiations with the Iraqi government." (From Capitol to Halls of the Nation’s Future NYT) Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:58:08 GMT /education/opinion-secstate-rice-visits-harlem-school/2007/10 /education/opinion-wheres-spellings/2007/10 In China, of course -- not in time to help the women's World Cup team (they lost on Friday to Brazil) but rather to help out with that whole Special Olympics thing. Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:44:18 GMT /education/opinion-wheres-spellings/2007/10 /policy-politics/bush-pushes-nclb-as-renewal-percolates/2007/09 As lawmakers continued backroom negotiations, President Bush urged them to move the bill along. Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:25:38 GMT /policy-politics/bush-pushes-nclb-as-renewal-percolates/2007/09 /education/opinion-plural-speech-gaffes-for-bush/2007/09 As if the President's mis-statement ("Childrens learn") yesterday wasn't enough, a draft of President Bush's speech to the U.N. General Assembly was posted online with phonetic spellings and other markings that weren't supposed to be seen by anyone outside the administration (Thanks to Bush, bloggers are hooked on phonics USA Today). Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:19:22 GMT /education/opinion-plural-speech-gaffes-for-bush/2007/09 /education/opinion-childrens-do-learn-says-president-in-latest-education-related-bushism/2007/09 The Washington Post would probably not have written about the Bush education event today in New York if Bush hadn't yet again mangled the English language. During the event, he reportedly said "Childrens do learn" -- a reworking of his famous 2002 Bushism "is our children learning?" ( No Child Left Behind Is Working). Via Eduwonk. Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:45:09 GMT /education/opinion-childrens-do-learn-says-president-in-latest-education-related-bushism/2007/09 /education/opinion-naep-scores-vs-little-rock/2007/09 It's a tough call, I guess -- stay in town and spin the news about the latest NAEP scores that are out today, or go to Little Rock to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the beginning of school integration? Well, Spellings is staying in town, and Deputy Secretary of Education Ray Simon is going to Arkansas. Not that the EdSec doesn't like herself some travel, of course. Later this fall she's scheduled to go to Shanghai for a Special Olympics shindig. Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:25:52 GMT /education/opinion-naep-scores-vs-little-rock/2007/09 /education/opinion-no-more-federal-building-number-6/2007/09 First they renamed National Airport in DC as Reagan National. Now the USDE administrative building in Washington has been renamed after President Lyndon Baines Johnson (yes, the same guy who got the Space Center named after him, too). Soon, you'll be hearing folks saying, "See you over at the LBJ Building." Or, "The meeting with the Secretary has been changed to 10 am at the LBJ Building." Read all about it here. Via the FritzWire. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:46:21 GMT /education/opinion-no-more-federal-building-number-6/2007/09 /education/opinion-spellings-rocks-cleveland-gets-good-press/2007/09 There seems to be no end of the positive press that EdSec Spellings is able to muster, even now with her efforts to revamp NCLB seemingly in shambles. Here Washington Whispers -- which only last week reported that she was going to run for Governor in Texas -- mysteriously decides that a ho-hum trip to Cleveland is worthy of not only a mention but an illustration. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:06:05 GMT /education/opinion-spellings-rocks-cleveland-gets-good-press/2007/09 /education/opinion-neil-bushs-school-scam-the-other-usde-scandal/2007/09 "An independent watchdog agency has asked the Department of Education to investigate why President Bush's younger brother, Neil, has received money earmarked for the president's signature education initiative to sell a curriculum program that has not been subjected to the rigorous evaluation it deserves," according too this story (Why is Bush's kid brother getting federal bucks?). "CREW says nearly $1 million has been spent on the systems in 16 school districts, mostly in Texas, where George W. Bush served as governor before his election in 2000, and Florida, where brother Jeb Bush is governor." Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:09:03 GMT /education/opinion-neil-bushs-school-scam-the-other-usde-scandal/2007/09 /education/opinion-spellings-playing-for-a-stalemate/2007/09 Read all the way to the end of this NPR piece (Hill Panel Ponders Future of NCLB) and you'll see first word I've heard of that Spellings is saying she'd rather have the current NCLB than the Miller draft. Saber-rattling? Maybe. But for those who are most worried about multiple measures and all the rest, it's going to be a serious consideration. Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:10:55 GMT /education/opinion-spellings-playing-for-a-stalemate/2007/09