"Getting Down to Brass Tacks On Education Reform," New Dem Daily, July 16, 2001: Now that both chambers of Congress have passed bills reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, House-Senate conferees must make decisions that will determine whether it will in fact be landmark education reform legislation, or just a continuation of the educational status quo with a few improvements and a lot of rhetoric.
"The New Three R's of Education," by Andrew Rotherham, Blueprint Magazine, February 7, 2001.
"Toward Performance-Based Federal Education Funding," by Andrew Rotherham, PPI Policy Report, April 1, 1999.
Executive Summary: "The New Democrat Coalition Three R's Education Proposal," by the NDC, January 2001.
Comprehensive Overview: "The Public Education Reinvestment, Reinvention, and Responsibility Act (Three R's)," by the NDC, January 2001.
Three R's Bill: Full Text (Adobe PDF document; 371 pages.)
Senator Tom Carper's Tesitmony Before the House Education and Workforce Committee, March 1, 2001.
Letter from House and Senate New Democrats to President Bush on Education Reform, February 26, 2001.
Increased Investment, Flexibility, and Accountability for Public Schools, NDC Message of the Week, January 29, 2001.
Three R's: The Case for Targeting: We simply must do a better job of driving Title I, along with other federal education aid, down to those schools and those children who need it most.
Three R's Q&A: Frequently Asked Questions.
A Comparison of Three R's with the Bush Education Agenda
"Putting the Needs of our Children First," Andrew J. Rotherham, Testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, May 22, 1999.
"Education Amendments: One Thumb Up, One Thumb Down," New Dem Daily, June 12, 2001: The Senate should strongly support giving parents more options by fostering public school choice -- without getting sidetracked into a debate on vouchers that could endanger the overall education reform bill....
"Landrieu On Target," New Dem Daily, June 12, 2001: "The Senate last night took an important step to affirm that federal education dollars should be better targeted to the neediest students....
"A Test of Resolve," New Dem Daily, May 31, 2001: The Administration needs to buckle down and spend some of the President's abundant political capital with conservatives to get several key testing quality provisions into the education reform bill working its way through Congress.
"The Center Holds in the House on Education," New Dem Daily, May 29, 2001: Last week there was an important and encouraging development in the U.S. House: H.R. 1, reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, survived attacks from the Right and Left and was passed.
"Asking the Wrong Test Questions," by Andrew Rotherham for The Washington Post, May 29, 2001: A realistic discussion of the costs of Bush's proposal is essential.
"Education Reform: How To Seal a Real Deal," New Dem Daily, April 26, 2001: We urge New Democrats to stand fast to their principles on education reform, as the best way to keep the pressure up on both sides for the obvious deal, based on the "3R's" formula of investment, accountability, better targeting, and flexibility.
"Bush fails students with watered-down test plan," USA Today, April 26, 2001: Bush led voters to believe that he wanted Texas-style testing that charts each student's progress annually, with results broken out by race, and schools held accountable for educating all children. Instead, Congress and the president are considering a loophole-ridden substitute.
"High on Schools, Low on Cash," by E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, April 24, 2001: President Bush has always talked a lot of common sense on education. But the chance for a great bipartisan agreement will elude him if he isn't willing to put money where his mouth is.
"Off on the Wrong Foot on Education Reform," New Dem Daily, March 12, 2001: In its reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act last week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee dodged the tough issues and pretty much stuck with the status quo.
"Fighting Entrenched Resistance," by Andrew Rotherham, Blueprint Magazine, February 7, 2001: Three R's opponents' arguments fall apart under scrutiny.
"Education: Step One: Grab the Center," by Siobhan Gorman, National Journal, January 27, 2001: By courting potentially sympathetic Democrats and incorporating some of their ideas into his education proposal, Bush is hoping to build a reform initiative that can pass Congress.
"Two Trains on Parallel Tracks," New Dem Daily, January 24, 2001: Senate and House New Democrats yesterday reintroduced the landmark "Three R's" legislation.... On the same day, President George W. Bush formally released his legislative proposal for education reform and signaled his interest in making the New Democrat bill the basis for a bipartisan compromise.
"New Dems Reintroduce Three R's Education Bill," New Dem Daily, January 23, 2001: The "Three R's" bill would combine the best ideas promoted on both sides of the partisan aisle in the ongoing debate on how to fix public schools: more resources, more administrative flexibility, and above all, more accountability for agreed-upon measurements of educational results.
"Opportunity Ripe to Rewrite Federal Role in Education," by Rep. Adam Smith, Seattle Times, January 18, 2001: The political right's calls to abandon public education and the left's insistence on new programs and more spending without demands for results are both waning quickly. Now, a group of centrist New Democrats are leading the charge in a common-sense effort to consolidate programs and provide more flexibility for local schools in exchange for results.
"Modernizing Title I for the 21st Century," by Andrew Rotherham, Tital I Monitor, January, 2001: To modernize Title I for the 21st century, Congress should consider the following principles: build on, rather than undermine, the 1994 reforms; make the needs of children, not adults, paramount; and resist ideological and political impulses from the right and left and focus on making Title I work.
"Elementary Politics," by Siobhan Gorman, National Journal, April 29, 2000: With voters rating education as a top concern this year, you'd think that Congress might be spurred to act. But the polls seem to be having the opposite effect.
"The Road to Bipartisanship is Through the Schoolhouse Door," New Dem Daily, December 20, 2000: Education is the logical choice for the first big agenda item in the Bush Administration because both the politics and policy of the subject make it a more favorable ground for genuine bipartisanship than any other.
"Trees at Risk," by Andrew Rotherham, The New Democrat magazine, May/June 1999: Nabbing beavers the education establishment way.
"New Democrats Hail Education Bill," House NDC, May 23, 2001.
House New Democrats Formally Introduce Education Reform Plan," House NDC, January 31, 2001.
"New Democrats Propose Bold Education Reform Package," Senate NDC, January 23, 2001.
"House New Democrats Join Senate In Unveiling Education Reform Plan," House NDC, January 23, 2001.
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