West Virginia Board of Education Actively Overseeing RESA Transition
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE) has been taking steps to ensure a smooth transition for counties since HB2711 dissolves the Regional Education Service Agencies (RESA) on June 30, 2018.
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WASHINGTON: Accepting Public Comment on State’s Draft ESSA Plan
Washington is accepting public comment on the state’s ESSA plan through Sept. 5.
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How to explain the sprawling federal ESSA law to readers, editors, & friends
Alexander Russo writes on Phi Delta Kappan that “mainstream news coverage of ESSA so far has been skimpy & superficial, given how important the new federal education law is going to be in coming years.” However, “there’s still more than enough time for education reporters and editors to grab hold of the story.”
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MICHIGAN: One school at a time, one neighborhood at a time
If you live anywhere near the Durfee Elementary School building and Central High School on the city’s west side, then you already see it happening. Because you really can’t miss it. It’s kinda big.
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Charter-District Collaboration: Where is it Thriving and What Can Minnesota Learn?
Our blog post last week introduced the topic of “charter-district collaboration”, and reported on the status of Minneapolis’ District-Charter Collaboration Compact, as well as the Minneapolis Public Schools and Hiawatha Academies Collaboration Agreement.
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Seven Things to Communicate to Students Before Testing
We can all agree that students are a key stakeholder in their own education. When they are involved in the assessment process and in their own learning, the result is an improvement in achievement.
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New session: Serving Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder workshop
CHICAGO—ALA Publishing eLearning Solutions announces a new session of our popular workshop, Serving Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Lesley S. J. Farmer. This workshop will consist of two 90-minute sessions and take place at 2:30pm Eastern/1:30 Central/12:30 Mountain/11:30am Pacific on…
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ARIZONA: Education Reformers Must Unite Around Three Goals
It’s fair to say the ultimate goal of the education reform movement, and the education community in general, is to ensure that all students – no matter where they live or what their background is – have access to a high-quality education.
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National Teachers’ Union Adopts New Policy Statement on Charter Schools
On July 4th, the vast majority of the 7,000 delegates from the National Education Association (NEA) voted to adopt a new charter school policy statement. The new statement is an overhaul of NEA’s former charter school policy statement that they had adopted in 2001.
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How ESSA Helps Advance Social and Emotional Learning
As the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) affords states the flexibility to decide how to measure student achievement, two reports released June 23 show that schools play a key role in developing students’ soft skills such as beliefs about their intellectual capacity, sense of belonging at school, and eagerness to learn in the face of adversity.
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Multilingual Equity Network Provides ESSA Recommendation to MDE
Over the past 20 years, the number of English learner (EL) students in Minnesota has increased by 300 percent, making them the state’s fastest growing student group, and they currently constitute 8.3 percent of the state’s total K-12 public education student enrollment. However, despite the rapid growth, their academic progress, as compared to their non-EL peers, has plateaued.
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PENNSYLVANIA: School breakfasts are a smart investment in our future: Frances Wolf
It simply breaks my heart that 1 in 5 children – over 520,000 – right here in our great state of Pennsylvania don’t always know where their next meal will come from.
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NATIONAL REPORT: Implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act: Toward a Coherent, Aligned Assessment System
ESSA retains the requirement that states test all students in reading and math in grades three through eight and once in high school, as well as the requirement that states ensure those tests align with states’ college- and career-ready standards. However, the law makes significant changes to the role of tests in state education systems.
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Experts Discuss How to Find – and Keep – Teachers of Color
Dante Little, a former public middle school teacher in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of only a few black males teaching in the city. But then he reached his breaking point. While he was administering a state test, the assistant principal came in to ask if all the students had handed in their cell phones. Even though they told him they had, he wasn’t satisfied and began to search and frisk each of them to be sure. According to Little, the students were treated that way regularly. “This isn’t a prison,” he said before he decided to quit. “I’m just done.”
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MINNESOTA: Governor Dayton Signs K-12 Education Bill. What’s In It?
Last night, Governor Dayton signed the policy and funding bills that laid out Minnesota’s next two-year, $46 billion dollar budget, which includes over $18 billion for K-12 education.
read moreStandards, Assessment and Accountability
- AASA Summary/Overview of Final ESSA Accountability Regulations
- AASA Letter on USED Call for Requests for ESSA Guidance
- AASA Summary of USED Proposed Regulations for Accountability
- AASA Response to USED Proposed Regulations for Accountability
- AASA Response to USED Proposed Regulations for Assessment
- State Accountability One Pager (50 State Set)
- ESSA Standards and Assessments FAQ
- Rural Education: An Overview of Rural Education in the Every Student Succeeds Act
- Top Nine Takeaways: ESSA and Accountability
Foster and Homeless Students
- New Requirements for Educating Students in Foster Care
- New Requirements in ESSA Impacting the Education of Homeless Students
- Toolkit: Considerations for LEAs in Developing Transportation Procedures for Students in Foster Care Under ESSA
AASA and School Innovations & Achievement Resources
- ESSA Evidence Base
- ESSA Private School Share
- ESSA Overview
- ESSA Road to Reauthorization
- ESSA Schoolwide Plan Flexibility
- ESSA State and Local Plans<
- ESSA Assessments
- ESSA Accountability
- ESSA Accountability and Regs
- ESSA Timeline
- ESSA Intervention
Webinars
- Supplement not Supplant: Latest ESSA Regulations and What is Means for Districts
- Leveraging ESSA’s Evidence Provisions to Help Every Student Succeed
- The Every Student Succeeds Act, Title I: Opportunities for Community-School Partnerships
- An Overview of the Every Student Succeeds Act and What it Means for Community-School Partnerships