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This Week’s ESSA News: 27 New Mexico Schools Freed From Oversight, Fears About Penalizing English Language Learners, School-by-School Funding Transparency & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: New Mexico Sheds A-F School Ratings, Democrats Push $4.4B Increase in Ed Department Funding, States Worry About School Improvement

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This Week’s ESSA News: Arizona’s New School Rating Plan, DeVos Faces Capitol Hill Backlash Over Law’s Implementation, New ‘State Plan Database’ & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Building a Pipeline of School Principals Through Title I Funds, Indiana Publishes Foster-Care Student Data, Rating States by Equity & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Arizona Could Lose $300 Million Over Assessments, DeVos Chats With State Chiefs, Montana Struggles in Defining ‘Ineffective’ Teachers & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Michigan’s New School Rating System Runs Afoul of Education Law, States Look to Modify Education Plans Without Federal Sign-Off & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Maryland Studies How Public Transportation Is Fueling Student Absenteeism, Parents Reflect on What Drives Engagement With Their Schools & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Governors’ New Education Focus, Funding for Afterschool Programs, A New Way to Talk About Education Equity & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Texas to Let School Districts Rate Themselves, a ‘Consumer Guide’ to Help States Choose Their Tests, DeVos’s Looming New Mexico Challenge & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: States Feel Ed Department Downsizing, Illinois Uses the Arts as Distinct School Quality Indicator, Delaware Helps Its Homeless Students

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This Week’s ESSA News: New Mexico Readies to Ditch A-F Rating System, House Democrats Call Out DeVos on Addressing Achievement Gaps & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: ‘Big Changes’ to New Mexico’s School Grades, Illinois’s Ambitious Goals Draw Skepticism, Tracking Homeless Student Progress & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Civil Rights Groups Target State Plans, Support for Highly Qualified Teachers, Equity vs. Performance & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: So How Exactly Are We Supposed to Measure Graduate ‘Readiness’ After High School, Anyway?

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This Week’s ESSA News: New School Accountability Systems From Alaska to Arizona, Considering the Destiny of Geography & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Michigan’s Accountability Law May Put Federal Funding in Doubt, Department of Education to Take Closer Look at Testing Pilots & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Louisiana Supe John White on the Innovative Assessment Pilot, Alabama Report Card Delayed Again & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: ESSA Architect Sen. Lamar Alexander to Retire, Testing Exams for Innovative Assessment Pilot Program & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: States Rethinking Report Cards, Using Data to Inform School Oversight, Targeting Classrooms for Additional Support & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: The Limitations of Graduation Rates, How the New Education Law Will Allow Students to Transfer out of Dangerous Schools & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: House Democrats Get Ready to Take Charge of Federal Education Policy, Feds Release Guidance on State Plan Changes & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: 17 States’ School Improvement Plans Reviewed, Feds Issue New Parent Guide, NM Eyes Tougher Accountability & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Growth, Proficiency, and ‘Failing’ Schools; Help for Military Families; Why Measuring Subgroups Matters & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: ‘Dramatic Consequences’ Seen in Midterm Elections, Coaching for Principals, Grants for Guns Lawsuit & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: 4 More States Eye Innovative Testing Pilot Program, Making School Performance Data Work for Families & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Ed Policy and U.S. Senate Race, School Improvement Grants, Dueling Accountability Systems in Indiana & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Government Issues Parent Letter About New Education Law, Low Grad Rate High Schools Escape Scrutiny & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Finding Ways to Help Chronically Absent Students, Using Data to Better Support Law’s Goals, and Why Federal Efforts Are ‘Just Beginning’

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This Week’s ESSA News: Florida Finally Gets Federal Approval, Senate Holds Hearing on States’ Plans, Tracking Vulnerable Students & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Rolling Out the Military Student Identifier, Questions on Revised Florida Plan, New Call for Innovators & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: What Democrats Winning the House Could Mean for Education, Fixing Tennessee’s Low-Performing Schools & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: ‘Promise to Practice’ Effort to Review How States Are Implementing Education Plans, Preparing for New Per-Pupil Spending Data & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Questioning Florida’s Still-Unapproved Education Plan, Using ESSA to Arm Educators With Weapons & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Idaho Lists Lowest-Performing Schools for First Time Ever, Concerns Over Free Lunch as Poverty Metric & More

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This Week’s ESSA News: Delay Sought on Florida Plan, Tracking Spending at the School Level, Biggest Challenges for Districts & More

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This Week in ESSA: New Ways of Thinking About Turning Around Struggling Schools, Smarter Balanced Gets the Thumbs-Up in Nevada & More

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