Two Democrats who played a key role in crafting the Every Student Succeeds Act, Sen. Patty Murray D-Wash., and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Friday asking what her plans are for giving states guidance on implementing the law, now that Congress has scrapped a key set of regulations written by the Obama administration.
Among a lot of other things, those regulations, which dealt with the accountability portion of the law, included a “template” or application form for states to use in developing their plans. A number of states have already gotten started using the old template, posting the form on their websites for feedback. But now that Congress has scrapped the regs, that form doesn’t apply.
DeVos said earlier this year that she planned to stick to the Obama administration’s timetable for implementing the law. That means states can begin turning in their applications on April 3. And she said she’d develop a new templateâessentially, a long federal form for those applications, releasing it on March 13. (That’s Monday). Her new form, she said, would ask states only for information that was “absolutely necessary” for implementing the law…
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