The New Haven Register reports that Connecticut has successfully driven down chronic absenteeism under ESSA, with “about 10,000 more students attending school for more than 90 percent of days each year over the last six years.”
Marva Hinton writes in this Education Week blog that in Connecticut, education leaders are “taking steps to help ease the transition of children into kindergarten,” as addressing “critical junctures” in education is required under ESSA. To comply with the law, the state “recently began providing...
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The Dept. of Education approved ESSA plans from Connecticut and Louisiana.
In response to the Dept. of Education issuing an “incomplete” on Connecticut’s draft ESSA plan, Laura Stefon, chief of staff for the state education department, commented that the state “will provide clarification where necessary, make tweaks if appropriate, and respectfully disagree with USED where necessary.”
The Connecticut Dept. of Education launched an online survey to gauge public opinion on the state’s education priorities. Feedback from the survey will be used in the state’s draft ESSA implementation plan.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s primers include individual state by state accountability system fact sheets, which detail each state’s current accountability system, what could change under ESSA, and what to be asking state leaders. See details about your state here.
