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Recommendations
- Promote Technologies and Services
- Strengthen Leadership Quality
- Ensure Equity, Access & Use
- Support Critical Policies
- Characteristics and Recommendations
Support Critical Policies and Strategies
The NETP should acknowledge the significance of the new educational policy framework that has emerged as a result of several developments, particularly in the national and global arenas. Addressing the requirements of the NCLB Act, accelerating developments in technology, changing demographics, declining economic forecast, and advances in research on learning are among the factors that should influence the policies and strategies for developing a new NETP. Following is a preliminary list of policy goals:
- Develop process whereby information flows from top to bottom as well as bottom to top to inform procedures and standards;
- Help identify procurement policies that include the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) and other technical standards, online testing, privacy standards, and security issues;
- Develop a process for evaluating multiple strategies across programs supported by federal funding rather than isolating programs for evaluation purposes;
- Incorporate consolidated evaluators into the consolidated applications;
- Promote research at the federal level that includes best practices and promotes lifelong learning;
- Represent the full panorama of school types;
- Support Homeland Security and school safety;
- Help states with K-20 articulation;
- Clearly define federal, state and local roles in terms of policy and funding;
- Model and encourage collaboration between agencies and programs at federal and state levels;
- Influence legislation with funding as the primary strategy.
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