Under ESSA, the California Dept. of Education debuted a “school accountability dashboard” website. The page is designed to be a “one-stop comparison tool” for its “ability to highlight high-performing schools for best practices and low-performing schools that need the most help.”
Rev. Sam Casey, founder and executive director for Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (COPE), asked Californians to help shape the state’s ESSA implementation plan. Casey called for stakeholders to provide feedback to “best serve students in our community” as well as to help “community members become informed activists...
Rev. Samuel Casey, executive director of Congregations United in Prophetic Engagement, wrote an opinion piece on the importance of stakeholders providing feedback to the state’s ESSA plan. Casey stated that California’s new plan must “work for all of our students.” He also encouraged everyone to...
A column in the Sacramento Bee argues that California’s new “multiple measures” accountability system, which is being finalized by the state Board of Education, “abolishes the state’s previous system of assigning scores to schools to signal how well their students are improving” and would not...
California’s CORE districts are asking the State Board of Education for permission to continue to develop their hybrid system of accountability in 2017-18 and beyond. The Board will discuss and possibly vote on the proposal at its next meeting in September. Operating through a nonprofit,...
In a letter to the State Board of Education, over 80 organizations joined Ed Trust–West in calling for a clear focus on equity in California’s new education accountability system. The groups argued, “When education leaders have timely, relevant data, they can more quickly identify what’s...
The California Department of Education is holding six regional meetings on the transition to ESSA. The first meeting was held late last week by the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools.
The state Dept. of Education held a stakeholder meeting on ESSA at the Los Angeles County Office of Education in Downey.
The 74 Million reports on the challenges the state will likely face when developing its new accountability system as it will have to observe several “oversight demands by ESSA” while also remaining “true to the state’s ethos of de-emphasising test scores and focusing on helping...
With support from the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, the state Dept. of Education held its first informational webinar to provide an overview of ESSA and an update on the development of the ESSA State Plan. The next webinar will be held June 4th. Read...
