As we work to ensure a high - quality teacher for every child and classroom, the time is ripe to think differently about providing
equitable access to excellent educators for all students by ensuring workforce stability for the future.
Fifteen out of the first 17 ESSA Plans mention their 2015 State Plans to Ensure
Equitable Access to Excellent Educators (equity plans), the last major plans that states submitted to the U.S. Department of Education prior to ESSA.
In 2015, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) submitted an equitable access plan to address differences
in access to excellent educators experienced by poor and minority students.
Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute and California School Boards Association; California state plan to ensure equitable
access to excellent educators.
As the recently published Title III guidance to the Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) states, «With effective, research - based supports and
access to excellent educators, [English learners] can achieve English language proficiency and perform academically at the same high levels as their non -[English learner] peers.»
The US Department of Education issued new guidance in 2014 requiring states to devise plans by June 1 for how states will ensure all their students have equitable
access to excellent educators.
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education launched the Excellent Educators for All initiative to support states and districts in ensuring that students of color and low - income students have equitable
access to excellent educators.
An Obama administration official said he's encouraged by state plans developed to «ensure equitable
access to excellent educators,» as required in 2014 by the U.S. Department of Education.
Phrases with «access to excellent educators»