Advocacy Groups Call on DeVos to Reject Florida ESSA Plan
August 14, 2018
Florida remains the only state that has yet to have its ESSA plan approved by the U.S. Department of Education, and UnidosUS and the Florida chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens want it to stay that way—at least for now. Corey Mitchell reports in Education Week that the two organizations issued a letter Aug. 10 “arguing that the current ESSA plan excludes ‘critical protections’ for English language learners, students with disabilities, nonwhite students, and students from low-income families.” In addition to “asking state Education Commissioner Pamela Stewart to take more time, and gather more public feedback, on the state plan,” the organizations want U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos “to hold firm and reject any revised proposal that doesn’t comply with the letter of the law,” Mitchell explains.