Key Details on State ESSA Plans
Andrew Ujifusa reports for Education Week about the publication’s updated ESSA tracker, highlighting “six individual policy areas that advocates, analysts, and educators are watching closely,” in each...
View ArticleNew School Report Cards in Illinois Focus on Student Growth
Karen Berkowitz reports in the Chicago Tribune that on October 31, Illinois will release its new school report cards, which under ESSA will now emphasize “students’ academic gains in relation to those...
View ArticleMidterm Races ESSA-Watchers Should Keep Their Eyes On
“U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos may have approved every state’s vision for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act—but that doesn’t mean the plans are all done and dusted,” Klein also...
View ArticleMilitary-Family Struggles at Beginning of School Year—and how MSI Could Help
Kiera Gallagher, M.Ed, a teacher at Albritton Middle School at Fort Bragg and an Army spouse, reflects on the struggles military families like her own face and how such families “cross their fingers”...
View ArticleESSA Plan “Set to Make Life Harder for Students Learning English”
Conor P. Williams writes in The 74 that Florida’s “ambivalence” towards English-language learners “shows up in its recent, meandering efforts to bring its education system into compliance with federal...
View ArticleLooking Ahead to the 116th Congress
The 74’s Carolyn Phenicie has “6 Education Predictions for the New Split Congress,” including some “ESSA changes.” The Education Department has “set a March 1, 2019, deadline for states to change their...
View Article“No Time to Waste” on ESSA Personnel Reporting
According to eSchool News, Kronos is sponsoring a webinar on February 6, which will provide information about three primary issues relating to ESSA’s personnel reporting requirements: 1. how “labor...
View ArticleWill New Mexico’s ESSA Changes Test DeVos?
“New Mexico is planning a major shakeup of its plan to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act,” writes Alyson Klein for Education Week. “And it’s not the only state that’s mulling changes. Among...
View ArticleTrump Admin “Falling Short” on ESSA Implementation
In Education Week, Megan Duff and Priscilla Wohlstetter provide an overview of a recent study conducted by them and their colleagues regarding the ESSA planning process, which concludes that the...
View ArticleOne Law, Many Viewpoints: How ESSA is Viewed Four Years Into Its Implementation
When the Every Student Succeeds Act was passed into law on December 10, 2015, President Barack Obama called it a “Christmas Miracle.” While “public schools are still in the process of formally...
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