Author: Ryan Paiva | Posted: 5. March 2013 04:34
CHARLOTTE, NC, March, 2013 – The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) has officially awarded 2 components of its Instructional Improvement System (IIS) contract to PCG Education: the Education Evaluation (EE) and Professional Development (PD) components. As part of this five-year agreement, PCG will partner with Truenorthlogic to integrate its EE/PD platform within the state’s IIS solution. PCG will also provide statewide training for 115 Local Education Agencies (LEAs) through a train-the-trainer model. NC DPI’s IIS project is funded through the federal Race to the Top program. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 15. February 2013 10:55
On February 14, 2013, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) published in the Federal Register its final rule to amend the frequency requirement for obtaining parental consent to bill Medicaid (FR Vol. 78, No.31, pages 10525-10538). Under the regulations for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a local education agency (LEA) must, with limited exceptions, obtain parental consent prior to disclosing personally identifiable information maintained in a student’s education records, including information necessary for the LEA to bill Medicaid for services provided to the student. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 17. August 2012 12:11
In an August 12, 2012 press release, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced the availability of applications for participation in its 2012 Race to the Top – District (RTT-D) competition. Applicants will compete for a portion of the $400 million RTT-D fund established to support local education reform initiatives. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 27. July 2012 05:56
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may present new revenue opportunities for local education agencies (LEAs). The ACA’s individual mandate requires most American citizens and non-citizen legal residents who do not receive health insurance through an employer or government program to purchase private health insurance by January 2014. As a result, many more families may have private insurance coverage, which could potentially be accessed by LEAs to help cover the cost of school-based health services provided to insured students. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 19. July 2012 10:26
On July 18, 2012, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) released a report on its study showing that federal stimulus funds saved education jobs and encouraged a common education reform agenda among states. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provided approximately $840 billion in federal appropriations in an effort to stimulate the nation’s recessed economy. The stimulus included approximately $100 billion in appropriations for education programs, including the education of disadvantaged students and students with disabilities and new competitive grant programs to spur education reform and innovations. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 3. October 2011 04:57
On September 28, 2011 the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) published in the Federal Register (FR Vol. 76, No. 188) a proposed amendment to its regulation regarding parental consent to bill Medicaid under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 15. October 2010 06:22
The ten winners in the second round of the Race to the Top competition have until November 22, 2010 to submit the individual education reform plans, called Scopes of Work (SOW), of each of their participating local education agencies (LEA) to the U.S. Department of Education. Education Week reports online that, in order to meet the deadline, state officials are requiring their LEAs to submit their SOWs to the states several weeks in advance of the deadline to allow time for revisions as necessary. [More]
Author: Ryan Paiva | Posted: 19. April 2010 03:56
Even after receiving billions of dollars in stimulus funds, many states and local education agencies (LEA) across the country are projecting massive budget shortfalls for the 2010-11 school year. Many LEAs are looking at budget cuts for next school year that include huge numbers of layoffs of teachers and other staff members. [More]
