EARLIER THIS MONTH, AASA released a set of proposals intended to offer an alternative to the current, federally-mandated due process system by which parents and school personnel handle disputes about special education services. The due process system as it exists today is expensive, unwieldy and inequitable. It was designed to provide access to education services for students with disabilities,...

This year’s National Conference on Education, from the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), was held in Los Angeles in February. More than 2,500 superintendents and other K-12 administrators attended the event. The general sessions featured three notable presenters who focused on the transformational theme that prevailed throughout the conference. Leadership in our schools is r...

The Common Core is another great idea at risk of being sabotaged by our penchant for accountability. Call it what you will but in this day of global competition we need a set of national standards. We are the United States of America in everything except education, with fifty sets of standards and fifty ways to evaluate them. But the Common Core goes beyond the potential for national standards. ...

Response to "Arne Duncan's Distracting Gaffe." National Journal Education Experts Blog. Posted March 4, 2013 The Schools Who Can Least Afford It By Dan Domenech The problem with the Sequester is that no one ever thought that it would happen. It is $85 billion in cuts without rhyme or reason. Indiscriminate cuts made regardless of program demand or effectiveness that will, by virtue of its ...

The American Association of School Administrators is about to reinvent itself. Founded in 1865, the year when the Civil War came to an end and Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, it is one of the oldest education associations in our nation. In 2015, we will be celebrating our 150th anniversary. AASA enjoys a proud heritage, but recent surveys of our members indicate that the association has to r...