With adequate funding and resources, we could establish the infrastructure and staffing that would allow us to take
full advantage of the opportunities currently before us to help parents take their rightful place in the national movement to fix our schools and, we hope, help move things in the direction that will truly make our schools stronger and better.
As the education community begins to discuss the implementation
of the Every Student Achieves Act (ESSA), which is the latest iteration
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), NAESP has identified one overarching and critical challenge: whether states and districts will take
full advantage of new
opportunities afforded under the new law to build comprehensive systems to support a robust principal pipeline, and, as a matter
of priority, support principals who are
currently working in the profession.