New York ESSA Resources
New York State Education Department
89 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12234 | Phone: (518) 474-3852
Website: http://www.nysed.gov/
Office of Accountability – Ira Schwartz, Assistant Commissioner
New York State Education Department
55 Hanson Place, Room 400, Brooklyn, NY 11217 |
89 Washington Avenue, Room 528M EB, Albany, NY 12234 |
Accountability, Policy and Administration – Dr. Lisa Long, Supervisor
55 Hanson Place, Room 445C, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tel.: (718) 722-4553 | Fax: (718) 722-2215
Email accountinfo@nysed.gov regarding: School Registration, Data Inquiries, High Performing Schools and Internships
District and School Review – Mr. Stephen Earley, Director
Email DTSDEreviews@nysed.gov for inquiries about the School and District Review process. Inquiries by mail should be addressed to 55 Hanson Place, Room 400B, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
Email DTSDEtraining@nysed.gov for inquiries about Focus District Institutes and other training-related questions. To reach us via phone, please call the numbers below:
Upstate School and District Review
Tel.: (518) 474-5923 | Fax: (518) 474-7948
Downstate School and District Review
Tel.:(718) 722-4553 | Fax: (718) 722-4559
Questions/comments regarding DCIPS/SCEPS should be directed to: fdip@nysed.gov
Questions/comments regarding 1003(a) grants should be directed to: siga@nysed.gov
Questions/comments regarding Focus District requirements should be directed to: accountinfo@nysed.gov
Logistics: Sandra Herndon (Doris Hill-Wyley) | Downstate Review: Crystal Cumberbatch | Upstate Review: Mary Sapp | Calibration: Lisa Long |
Metrics – TBA
Office in Albany
89 Washington Avenue, Room 528M EB, Albany, NY 12234 Tel: (518) 474-5923 | Fax: (518) 474-7948 |
Office in New York City
55 Hanson Place, Room 414, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Tel: 718-722-4553 | Fax: 718-722-2215 |
Title I School and Community Services – Mrs. Maxine Meadows-Shuford, Director
89 Washington Avenue, Room 320 EB, Albany, NY 12234
Tel.: (518) 473-0295 | Fax: (518) 486-1762
- Email regarding:
- Consolidated Application Update: CONAPPTA@NYSED.GOV
- Focus District Improvement Plans (DCIP/SCEP/SPSE): fdip@nysed.gov
- School Improvement Grant 1003(a): SIGA@NYSED.GOV
- Supplemental Educational Services (SES): emscses@nysed.gov
- Neglected & Delinquent (N&D): nd@nysed.gov
- School Improvement Grant 1003(g): SIG@NYSED.GOV
Complaints: Complaints may be filed with the New York State Education Department (NYSED). In order to ensure that your complaint/grievance is thoroughly and quickly reviewed, please follow the appropriate complaint procedures.
- NCLB Title I Complaints – For Title I, Parts A, C, and D or Section 100.2(ee) of Commissioner’s Regulations Regarding Academic Intervention Services
- General Complaints (Non-Title I)
Feedback: All general inquiries, feedback on this site or any changes you would like to see, should be sent to accountinfo@nysed.gov unless another email is listed above.
NEW YORK ESSA NEWS
OPINION: Importance of Educators of Color for Black & Brown Students
NNPA ESSA AWARENESS CAMPAIGN — This month, my organization, the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools released its highly-anticipated report, “Identity and Charter School Leadership: Profiles of Leaders of Color Building an Effective Staff” which examined the ways that school leaders of color’s experiences and perspectives influence how they build school culture, parent and community relationships, and effective staff.
read moreOP-ED: Student Loan Debt is a Crisis
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — Finances should never be a barrier to graduation, nor should the financial impact of earning a college degree be a barrier for buying a home, saving money, starting a family, and having a good credit score. TMCF prides itself on building pipelines into good paying jobs but we also have to work to ensure that those students are able to truly reap the financial benefits of their achievements without having to pay off years of student loan debt.
read moreProfile in Education Equity: Sharif El-Mekki
El-Mekki is answering his own “nation building” call. In May, he announced that after 11 years as Shoemaker’s principal and 26 years of being inside schools as a teacher or administrator, he was devoting his full attention and time to launching a new Center for Black Educator Development to help address the urgent need to bring more Black educators into Philadelphia’s classrooms and across the nation. “If I’m going to be serious about trying to change the lives of Black educators and hence the lives of Black children, then it just can’t be my night and weekend job,” he said.
read moreCOMMENTARY: Is There More to Teaching and Learning Than Testing?
In order for education to capitalize on the strengths and talents of learners and the skills and professionalism of their teachers, what kinds of additional progress measures might be employed?
read moreESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act
Video explaining the evolution, benefits and implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
read moreOP-ED: Black Studies becomes major factor in social advancement
OUR WEEKLY NEWS — The Black Power movement of the late 1960s helped to redefine African American identity and establish a new racial consciousness. As influential as this period was in the study and enhancement of the African Diaspora, this movement spawned the academic discipline known as Black Studies on our college and university campuses.
read moreBetsy DeVos Approves Testing Flexibility Under ESSA for Two More States
EDUCATION WEEK — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that she had approved Georgia and North Carolina to try out new assessment methods for the 2019-20 school year, joining Louisiana and New Hampshire as states to successfully apply to participate in this pilot.
read moreCOMMENTARY: Financial Literacy Transforms Students’ Lives. Here’s Where to Start
EDUCATION WEEK: In 2013, the Council for Economic Education (CEE) released a set of rigorous national standards for financial literacy that offer a starting point for elementary, middle, and high school educators to create a meaningful curriculum with the flexibility to determine what works best in their own school day. Schools should also tailor their curriculum to account for cultural differences in the classroom, as well as the specific learning styles of girls versus boys.
read moreDeVos Seeks to Align Education Grants With Trump-Backed Economic Initiative
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos wants to put a priority on competitive grants that square with the Trump administration's initiative to improve economic opportunities in distressed areas. In the Federal Register, which is where the U.S. government publishes...
read moreNo More Scissors. No More Mail. Box Tops for Schools Goes Digital
General Mills, which founded the program 23 years ago, announced that the program will soon be digital-only. Customers now earn money for their schools by scanning receipts rather than clipping box tops and mailing them in. Participants can download the new mobile app, scan their store receipt, which will automatically analyze which products were box-tops items and tabulate the amount that will be donated to their school of choice. Every box top will still be worth 10 cents.
read moreEducator Spotlight: Donald Hense
Three-quarters of the students enrolled in Friendship schools in D.C. are from Wards 7 and 8, the city’s two poorest areas, and nearly all are African-American. Their achievement is reflected in their continuous improvement on standardized tests. Most recently, Donald Hense and his team celebrated, when five of Friendship’s 12 D.C. schools were rated Tier 1 by the Public Charter School Board – the highest of three ratings a charter school can earn.
read moreStates Hunt for Evidence to Underpin School Turnaround Efforts
EDUCATION WEEK — Allendale County’s school district sits in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, in an impoverished, rural region near the coast known as the “corridor of shame” for the chronic poor quality of its education system. Until recently, three of the district’s four schools were considered among the lowest performing in the state.
read moreN.Y.C. Program Aimed at Diversifying Elite High Schools Comes Up Short
EDUCATIONAL WEEK — A program meant to diversify New York City’s infamously segregated specialized high schools failed to admit representative numbers of black and Hispanic students this school year, figures released last week by district officials show.
read moreESSA’s Growing Pains Evident Amid Progress
EDUCATION WEEK — If the Every Student Succeeds Act were a schoolchild, it would be a preschooler—not much more than 3 years old, making steady progress, but still stumbling a bit along the way.The first major rewrite of the nation’s main K-12 law in more than a decade, ESSA was signed into law at the end of 2015, replacing and updating the groundbreaking—but problematic—No Child Left Behind Act.
read moreCOMMENTARY: Assembly Workers and Widgets
Well, how can we feel more professional and less like factory workers producing widgets? First, we must clarify our mission. Students are not widgets. There can be no reject bins for human beings with different needs and varied learning intelligence!
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