The National Governors Association submitted their recommendations in response to the Dept. of Education's
draft accountability rules for ESSA.
WASHINGTON — Today, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 30 organizations listed below released the following statement regarding
draft accountability regulations for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) issued by the Department of Education in May: «The regulations the Department proposed in May are a good first step towards ensuring that all... Read More
He also pointed to an executive summary published by his district, which is far easier to read and understand than the
heftier draft accountability plan, suggesting an approach that other districts could adopt.
Last fall, the Maryland Board of Education — a 12 - member body, ten of whom were appointed by the state's Republican governor, Larry Hogan — released an
initial draft accountability plan.
• After Math Restoration Frank Mistretta — Established benchmarks, set goals, as well
as drafted accountability guidelines for measuring performance improvement.
The latest skirmish was last week's House education committee hearing where Chair John Kline (R - MN) sharply critiqued the Department of Education's (ED's)
draft accountability regulations for proposing requirements he deemed best left to states.
This is the first in a series of posts looking at the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and how the state's
draft accountability plan attempts to meet those requirements.
In
the draft accountability plans reviewed by EdSource, in many cases it is hard to easily zero in on key information, such as:
The Washington Post's editorial board has applauded OSSE's
draft accountability plan, advising the D.C. State Board of Education to approve it, as is required before it can take effect — and inaccurately implying that the only opposition to the plan's emphasis on test scores is coming from the teachers» union.