Heard on All Things Considered | NPR, WNYC
“It’s back to school time around the country, so we thought it was a good time to check in with our country’s top education official, Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. There’s also news to report. Earlier this week, his agency proposed new rules that would govern how school districts distribute federal money meant to support the education of low-income kids. The rules are intended to ensure that these federal funds, known as Title I, can only be used in addition to state and local money and not instead of those funds. It turns out that some districts spend far more of their state and local funds on their more affluent schools. The new rules, if they last, could change that, forcing districts to share resources more evenly. It’s controversial.”