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
Address
One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC, 20001-1431, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for strengthening organizational infrastructure to support openly licensed work product
The Council of Chief State School Officers is a nonpartisan organization of public officials nationwide who head state departments of elementary and secondary education. The council has a high profile and provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. With this organizational effectiveness grant, the council will build its internal capacity to openly license its materials and serve as an advocate for open licensure among its peers and constituents.
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.
for the state dashboard strategic trajectory
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a nonpartisan organization of public officials nationwide who head state departments of elementary and secondary education. It provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues.This Organizational Effectiveness grant will allow CCSSO to strengthen its monitoring and effectiveness capacity and develop a tool to measure the progress of states in implementing deeper learning throughout their K-12 education systems.
