Council of Chief State School Officers
For Support Of No Child Left Behind Waiver Applications
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/30/2011
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Term6.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Council of Chief State School Officers is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states. CCSSO provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. The Chiefs, with the technical assistance services of EducationCounsel LLC, will support states as they develop and submit waiver requests under No Child Left Behind pursuant to the US Department of Education's recent flexibility package. To date, 11 states submitted waiver requests in November 2011 and an additional 21 have indicated their desire to pursue a waiver with support from CCSSO in February 2012.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ccsso.org
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Learning Registry
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a membership association that serves the heads of state departments of elementary and secondary education. CCSSO would help provide support for Learning Registry - known as "the card catalog for digital resources" - focusing on working on the governance, maintenance, and future upgrades of Learning Registry with guidance and technical support from its members, and other entities such as its partners, the U.S. Department of Education, and other people and groups interested in Open Education Resources (OER). This work is expected to advance the OER program's strategic goal of supporting a robust technical and institutional infrastructure for the broader OER stakeholder community.
