John McCain’s education major domo, Lisa Graham Keegan, held a Q&A with education reporters at the Fordham Foundation. What news was made? Michele McNeil of Education Week says McCain believes the NCLB law is “adequately funded,” and “while the senator is a big supporter of vouchers and private and public school choice, he does not support using Title I money for private school vouchers.”
The Washington Post was there too, and Maria Glod leads with support for using federal dollars for teacher merit pay and support for continued annual testing, but with more say for educators in how to fix struggling schools. Fordham’s Petrilli sums up: “To my ears, it sounds like a major departure from No Child Left Behind as we know it.”
The quote that sticks from Keegan:”The federal government cannot position itself continually as the bully in this….No more will we say that’s what 50 states are going to do, because he doesn’t believe that’s our best hope for improvement.”
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