Sentences with phrase «essa provide»

The evidence requirements in ESSA provide state leaders with a powerful lever.

After years of experiencing a one - size - fits - all federal approach to school accountability and intervention, ESSA provides states with an opportunity to excel by designing new systems that reach far more children with intervention strategies that meet their needs and the needs of their schools.

As these goals suggest, we believe that ESSA provides an opportunity to move «accountability» beyond the constrained vision of No Child Left Behind — and that states should seize that opportunity.

Yet ESSA provides a reason to be guardedly optimistic: Its enactment stemmed in some measure from a growing dissatisfaction with simple test - based accountability.

ESSA provides an opportunity to rethink how states and communities seek and reveal student results and school effectiveness.

ESSA provides a unique opportunity for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to chart a path for shifting key decisions related to accountability, school improvement, teacher quality, and funding back to the state and local level.

«Because of the opportunity and flexibility ESSA provides, states are stepping up with innovations, new measures of school success, and interventions to meet the needs of their struggling schools,» said NASBE President and CEO Kristen Amundson.

ESSA provides an exciting opportunity for California to have a single, comprehensive accountability system based on performance, equity, and improvement that would meet both state and federal requirements.

Nevertheless, ESSA provides an opportunity for a fresh start, and system leaders can capitalize on the flexibility in the new law to make changes in the short and long run to develop a system of better, fairer, and fewer tests.

Leading the Way: How States are Addressing Early Learning Under ESSA provides participants with resources, examples, and strategies for including early learning in their ESSA state plans.

ESSA provides states with the flexibility to reimagine how supports to low - performing schools, whether these schools are categorized as CSI or as TSI, are provided and used.

NASBE issued, «ESSA Provides Opportunity for States to Ensure Coherence across Education Policies,» Press Release highlighting the importance of «consistency across policies to ensure effective, efficient learning systems and successful ESSA implementation.»

ESSA provides much needed systemic stability after several years of uncertainty.

Those plans will show whether states are taking advantage of the flexibility ESSA provides to ramp up efforts to recruit, prepare, and support their school leaders over the next few years.

Doug Mesecar, an adjunct scholar at the Lexington Institute, authored an opinion piece in The 74 discussing how states are «seizing the opportunity ESSA provides to start moving to personalized learning.»

Under well - rounded education, ESSA provides a list of suggested uses for funds that include:

Lastly, ESSA provides opportunities for state Chiefs to use Title II funding in innovative ways to help improve teacher and leader quality and ultimately increase student success.

Making Sure Every Student Succeeds The newest federal education legislation ESSA provides many opportunities to rethink how to improve our state's public education.

ESSA provides funding for states to audit and streamline assessment systems, eliminate redundant and inefficient assessments and improve them.

Title II of ESSA provides $ 2.5 billion to states and districts for professional learning and offers flexibility in how they spend this money.

However, ESSA provides that states may use Title II, Part A funds for a whole host of activities, including developing new teacher induction and mentoring programs, for which TCTA has consistently advocated as being a necessary and evidence - based strategy for improving teacher retention.

To that end, ESSA provides an important opportunity for state and district leaders to rethink strategies that recognize that communities are vital partners and resources in that effort.

Wendell Steinhauer, president of the 200,000 - member New Jersey Education Association penned an opinion piece highlighting the opportunity that ESSA provides and emphasizing the importance of stakeholder engagement during the state's four regional listening sessions later this fall.

ESSA provides support to high schools where one - third or more of students do not graduate.

MABE and the National School Boards Association (NSBA) agree that ESSA provides a historic opportunity for school boards across the country to help shape how this law will impact their schools, teachers and students.

Accomplished principals will share the latest research and analysis on evidence - based strategies to support the role of principals according to ESSA evidence tiers, discuss how ESSA provides states and districts with ample opportunities to provide on - going professional support for principals, and share key strategies for sustaining high quality professional learning communities for principals and other school leaders.

ESSA provides an important opportunity to create new accountability strategies that seek to view students and schools more holistically.

By transferring educational decision - making authority back to the state and local levels, ESSA provides a great opportunity to reverse the decline in arts education that occurred under NCLB.

For more about the opportunities ESSA provides for higher education and K — 12 collaboration, check out Higher Ed for Higher Standards» Leveraging ESSA series, with materials around aligned attainment goals to be released in early 2017.

ESSA provides state higher education leaders a critical opportunity to partner with their K — 12 colleagues to align efforts and create mutually reinforcing goals.

ESSA provides much more flexibility and discretion to the states about how federal education funds are spent, allowing funds to be spent where they are needed most.

I think it is fantastic that ESSA provided considerable flexibility to include relative measures of performance, such as growth.

And third, ESSA provides more flexibility at the local level for school improvement, requiring evidence - based strategies rather than the specific interventions of private tutoring and school choice that were mandatory for all struggling schools under the NCLB's school improvement grants program.3

ESSA provides an exciting opportunity for states to experiment with measuring student and school performance.

All three of these efforts must come together to ensure equitable «Future Readiness» across a state, and ESSA provides opportunities to support each of these critical state functions.

ESSA provides an opportunity to change this culture and mindset.»

The implementation of ESSA provides states with an opportunity to support and strengthen the capacity of school leaders by utilizing the Title II, Part A 3 % school leader set - aside, as well as other ESSA funds.

It is clear that ESSA provides great opportunity for districts to prioritize early learning as a key strategy to ameliorate achievement gaps.

ESSA provides greater flexibility to states, districts, and schools on issues from school report cards, to assessments and standards, to supporting low - performing schools.

Given the once - in - a-decade opportunity that ESSA provides, now is the time for school librarian engagement in advocacy.»

ESSA provides a new beginning for all students.

Not exact matches

«Strategic investments in our earliest learners and career and technical education, and supporting our ESSA plan, will provide real benefits for students, teachers and school districts.

«If the goal is transparency, ESSA will provide that, and it won't be about spending that is planned or intended, it will be what actually happened,» said Robert Lowry, deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents.

After the plan is approved by the USDE, the Department will work with BOCES District superintendents, the ESSA Think Tank and other groups to develop and provide guidance on implementing the ESSA plan, according to nysed.gov.

States should use the flexibility provided by ESSA to increase transparency so that parents, teachers, and everyone who has a stake in education will have the information they need to make decisions that help students excel.

NCLB launched a decade of building states» data infrastructure; ESSA is about taking advantage of this infrastructure to not only create more meaningful accountability measures, but to also provide greater transparency, empower decisionmaking, personalize learning, and ensure we keep kids on track for success.

With the increased authority provided to states under ESSA, states can now take advantage of this flexibility to build even better systems and not as a means to hide from accountability.

By returning control to the states, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides an opportunity for states to rethink the enticements baked into accountability policies.

After the Secretary promised to provide states wide latitude in implementing ESSA, the DeVos team seems to be misreading the law, the substantive issues, and the politics.

The ESSA would increase funding under Part A of Title IX, which provides funding for homeless children, from approximately $ 65 million annually in 2015 to $ 85 million annually from 2017 through 2020.