Sentences with word «essa»

In an Education Week op - ed, Atkinson and Chu write that «one of us (Dale Chu) examined important aspects of state ESSA plans as part of an independent peer review» [the Collaborative for Student Success» and Bellwether Education Partners Check State Plans initiative] that identifies both the good and the bad of these plans.

Learn about the changes in federal requirements under ESSA in assessments, accountability, professional development, and others, and how educators can influence the decisions about new state and local policies.

State and national pundits and advocates — myself included — put a lot emphasis on the importance of ESSA plans for laying out the next generation of education reform.

The specific guidance for SSAEG is found in ESSA under Title IV, 21st Century Schools, Part A.

Congress must appropriate funds for the program through its fiscal year 2017 budget, and states are working to set plans for ESSA implementation by the 2017 - 2018 school year.

Last month, however, the House voted to use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the Obama regulations on ESSA school accountability.

Rosen Publishing and EveryLibrary today announce a joint project to provide pro-bono strategic consulting services to state - level school library stakeholders for ESSA Implementation Planning in their states.

The new ESSA requires real - dollar transparency about district spending, so the financial consequences of senior - teacher driven school funding will soon be easy to see.

With ESSA as with most things in education, it's easy to get pulled into the jargon.

According to Emily Wilkins at Bloomberg Government, concern regarding federal oversight of state ESSA accountability plans «is casting a shadow over Senate negotiations on reauthorizing a higher education law.»

The newfound flexibility provided by ESSA gives states an opportunity to enact a comprehensive agenda to address all aspects of the teacher pipeline, beginning in the 2017 - 2018 school year.

As ESSA requires states to focus on evidence - based practices, state education agencies and school districts must make important evidence - based curricular choices.

Education World covered the release of a summary document from the Dept. of Education outlining how new ESSA regulations will shift accountability to the states.

This is the third in a series of three blog posts about how state and local education policy would be affected by the repeal of ESSA regulations that were written during the Obama administration.

The group seeks to «increase awareness about ESSA with a focus on engaging Black...

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

States should ensure that the state plans they create to implement ESSA do not exempt charters from their required efforts to improve the conditions of learning, including identifying and curbing the overuse of suspension.

Seventeen states submitted ESSA plans in April, and 33 others submitted plans Sept. 15, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

According to David DeSchryver, Director of Research at Whiteboard Advisors, the way districts communicate their responsibility in using ESSA funds may have far reaching effects on future government funding.

[5] The current U.S. Department of Education guidance on accountability under ESSA does not define any cutoff for minimum n - size.

Wraparound services will get a boost — hopefully for the sake of learning ESSA also presents a chance for states to double down on wraparound services that support whole child health and well - being.

Changes made under ESSA give states and school districts a mandate to incorporate educational programs that not only help striving students and English language learners (ELL) succeed, but also meet «evidence - based» standards.

TCTA objected to TEA's proposal to favor these controversial forms of school structure over others and urged TEA to eliminate this provision from the draft plan as not comporting with ESSA provisions for the state to provide operational flexibility to schools on a case - by - case basis and only if appropriate / necessary.

Next steps for ESSA include rulemaking on several specific Title I issues, as required by the new law.

David Griffith, research and policy associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, explained the three «accountability mistakes» states are making while drafting ESSA implementation plans.

As he said in Atlanta: «The new ESSA law requires use of at least one, and we'd hope for more than one, non-academic measure in schools.»

States and districts can leverage ESSA funds to do some of this important work.

The workshops focused on highlighting opportunities within ESSA language for school... Read More»

Last week Wyoming submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Education in response to proposed ESSA rules on accountability.

New Fordham report looks at state ESSA school improvement plans.

Importing a nearly universally criticized aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act into ESSA through a narrower regulatory definition would be counter-productive.

In response to the Dept. of Education's announcement of proposed ESSA accountability regulations, the Rep. John Kline and Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairmen of the House and Senate Education Committee, threatened to block the rules under the Congressional Review Act.

On behalf of the members of the New Jersey Library Association I want to thank you for permitting us to provide testimony on the opportunities which the new federal ESSA legislation provides for students in New Jersey.

«However, stronger public school choice options is but one of many opportunities ESSA makes possible.

This NASBE report takes a detailed look at ESSA provisions pertaining to early childhood education and suggests ways states boards of education can turn those opportunities into action.

The flexibility under ESSA offers states the unique opportunity to improve how they recruit, select, prepare and support educators, and to direct federal funding to those purposes.

Educators in elementary schools and urban communities currently have the most options for evidence - based SEL programming that meets ESSA evidence requirements.

Because of the numerous opportunities specifically related to educator preparation, AACTE has recommended (and continues to urge) that your programs and state chapters engage with your states as they craft their plans for using ESSA Title II - A funds.

This approach follows CAP's belief — laid out in its 2014 report — that an ideal accountability system is meaningful for all schools when it embeds what ESSA requires within a broader system for driving improvements and supports.

Representatives John Kline (R - MN - 2), chairman of the House education committee, and Bobby Scott (D - VA - 3), ranking member, sent a letter to lawmakers in charge of K - 12 spending that requests full funding for Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants when developing ESSA guidelines.