Seventeen state plans to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act have passed the U.S. Department of Education’s initial completeness check and are ready for peer review, the next step in the approval process, the department announced Friday.
“Today’s announcement is a big win for ESSA implementation. I am committed to returning decisionmaking power back to states and setting the department up to serve the support and monitoring roles intended by Congress,” U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in a statement. “The department worked with states to ensure their plans included all statutorily required components laid out in the…
Healthy Schools Campaign, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and Attendance Works hosted this webinar about the opportunities ESSA presents for supporting schools and communities in addressing chronic absenteeism and to hear how states are working to integrate chronic absenteeism into its state ESSA plans.
Representatives of several education leadership associations recently released the 2016-17 State of Education report highlighting the many successes and challenges facing public education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Paul M. Healey, Ph.D., PA Principals Association Executive Director, spoke at the news conference on April 24, 2017.
Heralded as a Christmas miracle, the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December 2015 marked a turning point in federal education policy. The latest reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ESSA replaced the much-maligned No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and returned significant control over education back to the states.
Join AEI as Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander, one of the law’s chief architects, discusses ESSA and American education. Following his remarks, an expert panel will deliberate on the new law and what it means for states, families, and students.
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Dr. Tony Marchese of ICF interviews Dr. Caitlin Howley and Dr. Jobi Lawrence of the Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center to establish a basic understanding of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This is the first of a three-part series based upon the following objectives:
1. Inform citizens in region about federal education law
2. Explore how the new law might affect states, local districts and schools
3. Provide information about how to provide input to the law as a public education stakeholder
Overview of Programs in Series
Program One: Introduce public to how each state in the Appalachian Region is transitioning to the new law
Program Two: Highlight thoughtful approaches to ESSA planning
Program Three: Examine challenges related to planning for ESSA implementation
Caitlin Howley directs the Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center, which provides technical assistance to state education agencies in four states. She also conducts research and evaluation of school, college, and professional development programs across the Appalachian region. Previously, Howley was Associate Director of the ARCC, provided evaluation for several Comprehensive Centers, and served as a Research and Evaluation Specialist with the Appalachia Regional Education Laboratory.
Jobi Lawrence serves as a consultant of the ARCC as well as the Title III Director in a State Education Agency. Over the course of her career in education, Lawrence has served as an ESL and Bilingual Co-Teacher, a faculty member in higher education and an administrator in higher education and a state government agency.
For 14 long years, students and educators have lived under the deeply flawed No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) returns decision making for our nation’s education back where it belongs – in the hands of local educators, parents, and communities – while keeping the focus on students most in need.
Arizona has cut over $1 billion from education funding every year since 2008. Arizona is ranked last or near the bottom in per-student funding and teacher salaries. This has led to historic teacher shortage and high class size. Arizona’s parents, community leaders, and business owners need to ask themselves what kind of schools do we want for our children and our future workforce and do your elected officials share your priorities around public education?
The campaign has three objectives:
Prevent the Arizona Legislature and Governor from diverting revenue away from public schools through tax cuts, tax credits and vouchers.
Provide immediate and significant public education funding (FY2018) focused on the needs of our public schools in Arizona as follows:
a. Increase school employee salaries in order to sustain a workforce of qualified teachers with competitive compensation and support.
b. Provide critical tools for classrooms with supplies and updated textbooks and technology.
c. Fund school building maintenance and repair to give students safer, clean and functional places to learn.
Identify a strategy and constituency coalition to provide midterm and long-term funding resources for Arizona Public Schools.
Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke on the Senate floor on March 8, 2017 about Republicans’ plans to repeal accountability regulations in the Every Student Succeeds Act…
