What About Plans’ Promise for Improving Schools?
February 2, 2018
Center for American Progress Senior Policy Analyst for K-12 Education Samantha Batel writes that, while independent reviews have largely found state ESSA plans to be “unambitious or unfinished” (such as Check State Plans), one policy (which appears in half of ESSA plans) “could have teeth to move the needle for struggling schools: the authority to change school governance.”