The Department of Education released the contents of the agency’s $68.6 billion dollar portion of the President’s 2015 budget proposal this week, and with it outlined the initiatives it plans to focus on in the coming year.
The agency began by outlining the progress made by minority students in both high school graduation rates as well as postsecondary enrollment rates, yet expressed concern for the country’s lagging scores in math and language arts when comparing the U.S. to our international competitors.