ESSA Plans: Seventeen States Plus D.C. Shooting for Early-Bird Deadline

ESSA Plans: Seventeen States Plus D.C. Shooting for Early-Bird Deadline

by | Feb 14, 2017 | Arizona, Delaware, District of Columbia, Education Week, ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Trump Administration, US Department of Education, Vermont

Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have told the U.S. Department of Education that they are aiming to file their plans for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act by early April, in time for the first deadline set by the Obama administration.

Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont, plus the District of Columbia.

States have spent the past year reaching out to educators and advocates to decide how to handle everything from teacher effectiveness to school ratings to that brand new indicator of student success and school quality…

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Scrambling to Fill Out ESSA’s Policy Details

Scrambling to Fill Out ESSA’s Policy Details

by | Dec 30, 2016 | Education Week, ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Massachusetts, National, Nevada, New Hampshire, No Child Left Behind, US Department of Education

(Originally published December 30, 2016)

With just months to go until the nation’s overhauled K-12 law goes into effect, state policymakers are still scrambling to firm up the infrastructure for their education systems, under the new blueprint laid out in the Every Student Succeeds Act.

They’re doing it at a time of political change and policy uncertainty at the national level, with a new team taking the field at the White House—and at the U.S. Department of Education—that may have its own ideas about how details of the new law play out on the ground.

There’s plenty about ESSA that remains familiar from the No Child Left Behind Act, the previous version of the half-century-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That includes mandatory state testing at certain grade levels, tagging and intervening in low-performing schools, and federal sign-off on state accountability plans…

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