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Ed Dept. Releases Parent Guide to Coming ESSA State, District Report Cards

Carolyn Phenicie

Expert Review: Some States’ ESSA School Improvement Plans Are Missing the Mark on Equity

Carolyn Phenicie

Exclusive Map: Experts Review the States That Have (and Haven’t) Developed New School Turnaround Plans Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Steve Snyder

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

Nearly 30 Percent of Teachers Are Chronically Absent. How Rhode Island Is Using ESSA to Move the Needle

Taylor Swaak

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

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’

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

Democrats Pan ‘Dangerous and Dumb’ Idea to Arm Teachers as Gun Concerns Hijack ESSA Hearing

Carolyn Phenicie

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

How States Try (and Sometimes Fail) to Combat Attendance Gaming and Errors as ESSA Ratchets Up the Stakes

Taylor Swaak

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

Rittling: How New ESSA Preschool Development Grants Will Help States Build a Foundation of Success for Our Littlest Learners

Sarah Rittling

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

Educators Hoped ESSA’s ‘5th Indicator’ Would Paint a Clearer Picture of Student Success. But With Some States Now Choosing Up to 11 Different Measures, Experts Worry Results Are a ‘Hodgepodge’

Taylor Swaak

Analysis: Colorado Schools Sue Over Law Funding Transportation of Foster Kids to School Under ESSA

Christie Renick

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

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

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

The 74 Interview: Harvard’s Karen Mapp on ESSA, Family Engagement, and How Schools and Communities Can Partner to Help Kids Succeed

Kate Stringer

This Week’s ESSA News: Louisiana Gets 1st Federal OK for Innovative Assessments Pilot, Professional Development Comes Up Short, and More

Blair Mann

With Nearly 8 Million Students Chronically Absent From School Each Year, 36 States Set Out to Tackle the Problem in New Federal Education Plans. Will It Make a Difference?

Taylor Swaak

And Then There Was One: 3 Things to Know About Florida’s Stalled Education Plan — and Why the State Could Be Risking $1 Billion in Federal Funds

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Utah Students Who Opt Out Will Be Counted as Failing, and Florida State Plan Only One Still Not Approved

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Feds OK Oklahoma, California & Utah Plans, Puerto Rico Pilots New Funding System, & More

Blair Mann

Analysis: ESSA Offers a Real Chance to Drive Real Change in America’s Schools — but Only If We Follow the Evidence

Melody Barnes & John Bridgeland

This Week’s ESSA News: New Rules to Track Chronic Absenteeism, Civil Rights Groups Voice Concerns Over States’ Plans, California in Purgatory & More

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Tennessee Gets Creative on School Ratings, Opt-Outs Give Utah & New York Trouble, Leveraging Results From Innovation Investments & More

Ashley Inman

This Week’s ESSA News: Nation’s First Turnaround Plan Gets Green Light, Feds Approve Plans for North Carolina and Nebraska, How Opt-Outs Will Work & More

Ashley Inman

This Week’s ESSA News: Alabama’s Waiver Request Intentions, Measuring School Success, SAT or ACT for Accountability?

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Congressional Pushback Over Plan Approvals, New Questions About High Standards, Alaska & Iowa Approved by Feds

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: And Then There Were 6: A Look at How — and Why — 6 States Have Yet to Get Their ESSA Plans Approved

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: 3 More States See Education Plans Approved, Parents Becoming Professional Development Advocates, Tracking Military Students & More

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: School Choice Missing From Many States’ Plans, Tennessee Testing Woes, South Carolina & Virginia Plans OK’d

Blair Mann

Analysis: Will Colorado Become the First State to Pass a School Transportation Law for Foster Kids Under ESSA?

Christie Renick

This Week’s ESSA News: California and Florida Revise Plans (Finally), Experts Give Equity Advice, Colorado Looks Out for Foster Kids

Blair Mann

Batel: Rethinking the School-to-Work Pipeline With Career and Technical Education That Is Rigorous, Inclusive, and Equitable

Samantha Batel

ESSA Analysis: Betsy DeVos Set the Rules for States’ New Education Plans, So Why Is She Blaming Local Leaders for Following Them?

Anne Hyslop

ESSA Innovation: How 2 States and Puerto Rico Aim to Transform the Way They Assess Student Learning

Mark Keierleber

This Week’s ESSA News: Civil Rights Leaders to Congress: Tell DeVos to Stop Approving Unlawful Plans

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News — Louisiana, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico Look to Try Out New Forms of Testing; Congress Steps Back In

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News — And Now There Are 37: Texas, Idaho, Mississippi and Rhode Island Latest Plans OKed, Millions More in Federal Funding for ESSA-Related Ed Programs

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News — Complaints Around ESSA Oversight Threaten Higher Ed Bill; 5 Districts Take On Weighted Funding Pilot

Blair Mann

A Teacher’s Mini-Lesson on ESSA: The Federal K-12 Law Places Burden on States to Improve; It’s Time They Stepped Up

Sean Worley

This Week’s ESSA News — A Close Look at How States Are Dealing With Law’s ‘Wild Card’ Provision; School Chiefs Push Back on DeVos’s ‘Tough Love’

Blair Mann

Across the Country, States Are Stepping Up to Do More in Their ESSA Plans Than the Law Requires to Improve Schools for All Children

Kristen Amundson & Carissa Miller

This Week’s ESSA News: DeVos Delivers ‘Tough Love’ to State Chiefs on Innovation; ESSA Plans Offer Pre-K Opportunities

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: ‘Less Than Promising’ Thinking on State Accountability Plans, but a ‘Little-Noticed’ Provision Offers Hope on Equity, Transparency

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: 17 States Receive ESSA Extensions, Idaho OKs Revised ESSA Plan After Feds Ask for More Info

Blair Mann

Analysis: 4 Ways State Ed Reformers Are Keeping Up the Fight for Better Schools Under ESSA

Suzanne Tacheny Kubach

Rotherham: As Governors Convene for Axios Education Town Hall, Looking Beyond ESSA & School Shootings to Broader Crises Affecting Schools

Andrew J. Rotherham

This Week’s ESSA News: Why Some Governors Oppose Their Own States’ ESSA Plans, How to Better Communicate Key Policy Issues, and More

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: A Dustup in Florida, a Push for National Equity, and Why One Analysis Says There Are Far Too Many ‘Unambitious’ Plans

Blair Mann

Commentary: States May Not Make Huge Changes Under ESSA. But What Will They Do to Promote Equity and Opportunity for Poor and Minority Students?

Martin Orland, James Cibulka & Kenneth K. Wong

This Week’s ESSA News: K-12 Missing in State of the Union, Texas ESSA Weak on ELLs, Better Minn. Grad Rates Not Enough

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Ed Dept. Pick Gets Grilled, 6 More Plans Get Approved, CA and NY Get Mad

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: As the Education Department Approves 11 Education Plans, a Closer Look at Federal Feedback to States

Blair Mann

More Than 90 Percent of Ed Dept. Staff Would Be Furloughed in Shutdown, Will Slow ESSA Plans, Hurt ‘Impact Aid’ Schools

Carolyn Phenicie

What Moms Want: Parents From Across the Country Weigh In on How Schools and Districts Should Engage Families Under ESSA

The 74

Analysis: Rhode Island ESSA Case Could Mean an End to Repeated School Transfers for Youth in Foster Care

Daniel Heimpel

Special Report — 2018 Is the Year ESSA Gets Interesting: What to Watch For as the New Education Law Goes From Planning Exercise to Policy

The 74

This Week’s ESSA News: Amid ‘Mounting Concerns,’ U.S. Department of Education Approves Two States, Offers Feedback to Others on Testing, Accountability & Equity

Blair Mann

Rotherham: From Planning to Practice, 2018 Is the Year the Every Student Succeeds Act Gets Interesting

Andrew J. Rotherham

Analysis: 5 Ways to Keep School Accountability Simple Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Anne Wicks

Analysis: After a Decades-Long Zero-Sum Game of Power, the Lasting Legacy of NCLB & ESSA Will Be the End of Local Control

Nat Malkus

2018: The Year the Every Student Succeeds Act Shifts From Planning to Practice and States Face Their First Test on Accountability

The 74

‘Disappointing but Not Surprising’ — California’s ESSA Plan Gets Some of the Harshest Feedback Yet From Washington

Mike Szymanski

This Week’s ESSA News — Inside the Dept. of Education’s Feedback to 10 States on Testing, Accountability & Disadvantaged Students

Blair Mann

California Schools Teaming Up With New Child-Focused Ride-Sharing Company to Meet ESSA Goals for Supporting Foster Youth

Daniel Heimpel

This Week’s ESSA News: Independent Peer Review Results Show States Largely Squandered ESSA Opportunities

Blair Mann

California ESSA Plan Not Giving Parents What They Need to Know, Experts Say

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Opportunity Wasted: Second-Round ESSA Plans Get Largely Lackluster Reviews From Independent Experts

Carolyn Phenicie

This Week’s ESSA News: DeVos Lauds ESSA Flexibility, but Critics Say There Might Be a Bit Too Much Wiggle Room

Blair Mann

How Will America’s New Education Law Change Your School? 5 Experts Point to the Best New Ideas From ESSA Plans

Blair Mann

3 Ways Schools Can Use Federal Funding Through ESSA to Support Social-Emotional Learning

Kate Stringer

America’s New Education Law: 3 Experts on the Most Common Mistakes States Are Making With Their ESSA Plans

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: New York’s Waiver Request Sparks Civil Rights Backlash and Florida’s ‘Terrible’ ELL Proposal

Blair Mann

Williams: As Florida Flouts America’s New Education Law on English Language Learners, Will the Feds Take a Stand?

Conor P. Williams

How Will America’s New Education Law Make Your School Better? 5 Experts on How States Are Using ESSA to Make Districts More Accountable

Blair Mann

Experts Predict 5 Ways America’s New Education Law Will Improve the Average School Day

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Civil Rights Groups Concerned About Florida’s Education Proposal; Fordham & NCTQ Review Updated State Plans

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Parent Platforms, Research-Light State Plans, and the Great Opt-Out Fade-Out

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Waiver Requests, Plan Revisions, and Too Much Flexibility?

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: State Report Cards’ Data Makeover, Where’s Alexander, AZ’s Transient Students

Blair Mann

The 74’s Interactive Map for ESSA, the New Federal Education Law

The 74

The Every Student Succeeds Act: 3 Things You Need to Know

The 74

3 Ways Schools Can Fix Low-Performing Schools Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

The 74

The Every Student Succeeds Act: 5 Things You Need to Know

The 74

5 cosas que debe saber de ESSA

The 74

This Week’s ESSA News: Yes, All 34 Plans Are In, but a Few New Questions About Graduation Requirements and Special Ed

Blair Mann

This Week’s ESSA News: Equity, Social-Emotional Learning, and Angst Among the States

Blair Mann

New ESSA Analysis Raises Concerns Over Educational Equity: Are States Not Doing Enough to Ensure Every Student Succeeds?

Andrea Ramirez

Don’t Expect Betsy DeVos to Wade Into State-Level Showdowns Over Who Gets Final ESSA Approval, Expert Says

Beth Hawkins

This Week’s ESSA News: Senate Dems Worry, Ga. Governor Says No, Closer Round 2 Scrutiny Urged

Blair Mann

How to Ensure ESSA Succeeds Where NCLB Failed? Local Leadership Built Around Innovation

Thomas Arnett

States Have Stepped Up, but Community, National Pressure Still Needed to Ensure Quality Schools Under ESSA, Chiefs Say

Carolyn Phenicie
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