Feds Work on ESSA Just Beginning
September 25, 2018
Alyson Klein of Education Week reports that, despite the approval of most (now all) state ESSA plans by the U.S. Department of Education, in some ways, “the federal government’s work on ESSA is just beginning.” While the law’s “hallmark may be state and local control,” the Education Department “still has the responsibility to oversee the more than $21 billion in federal funding pumped out to states and districts under ESSA.” This will more than likely take the form of monitoring.” The department also “has other oversight powers, including issuing guidance on the law’s implementation, writing reports on ESSA, and deciding when and how states can revise their plans.”