Obama Proposes Teacher Results in Federal Law

Autor/in	Sawchuk, Stephen
Titel	Obama Proposes Teacher Results in Federal Law
Quelle	In: Education Week, 29 (2010) 22, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Federal Legislation; Incentives; Educational Finance; Politics of Education; Grants; Budgets; Teacher Effectiveness; Competition; Resource Allocation; Teacher Promotion; Compensation (Remuneration); Funding Formulas; Educational Innovation; Administrators + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesrecht; Anreiz; Bildungsfonds; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Finanzhaushalt; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Wettkampf; Ressourcenallokation; Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich; Funding; Finanzierung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation
Abstract	In its fiscal 2011 budget request, the Obama administration has laid out its intention of carrying forward key teacher-effectiveness policies within the economic-stimulus law into the next edition of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In doing so, the budget proposal would invest heavily in competitive grants for new ways of recruiting, training, evaluating, and compensating teachers and principals, dramatically shrink the amount of teacher-quality funding doled out by formula, and consolidate a handful of smaller teacher programs that have fierce congressional defenders. With those issues on the table, proposals that some teacher experts call visionary could prove to be a difficult sell on Capitol Hill. President Barack Obama's budget request for the U.S. Department of Education comes as the first major reconceptualization of federal teacher-quality spending in a decade. Among the new programs is a $950 million Teacher and Leader Innovation Fund, which would support competitive grants for finding ways to promote and compensate educators, and provide incentives for them to take on challenging school assignments. In addition, the budget seeks $405 million to support different "pathways" into teaching, and three programs totaling just over $1 billion focused on improving teacher instruction in core content areas. In all, compared with the current fiscal year, the budget would add $530.5 million in federal teacher spending--all in competitive funding. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10