Education Week logoThe Every Student Succeeds Act allows states and districts to come up with their own interventions for struggling schools, with the caveat that improvement strategies have to some sort of evidence to back them up.

So how strong are state ESSA plans when it comes to school improvement? It’s a mixed bag, concludes a report released Friday by the Evidence in Education Lab at Results for America, a non-profit organization that studies school improvement.

The good: Almost every state, €”46 out of the 51, including the District of Columbia, €”included at least some one “promising practice” for building and using evidence in their plans. Eleven states were stand-outs in this area: Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Tennessee.

Nine states, €”Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Tennessee, €”pledged to distribute federal school improvement dollars at least in part on the strength of school and districts’ plans to use evidence-based interventions…

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Source: Education Week Politics K-12

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