According to the good folks at Ed Week, there are some interesting happenings on the Hill today. The House subcommittee in charge of education appropriations decided to provide a big boost to the Teacher Incentive Fund (a program that supports innovative teacher compensation systems). That's good news.
The subcommittee also decided not to provide the huge boost to the School Improvement Fund requested by the administration. This is a good thing if it slows down the hope-fueled turnaround train. I wish the subcommittee's action was a result of suspicions about how the administration would spend the funds requested, but that's not the case. They just didn't want to divert any funding from Title I state grants.