Rosa Castro Feinberg, Former Miami-Dade School Board member and current co-chair of LULAC Florida’s Government and Media Relations Committee, asks a good question in this article: “Why is Florida the only state that’s not in compliance with federal education standards?” The answer is pretty clear...
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...
Stephen Sawchuk reports for Education Week that Nevada’s use of the Smarter Balanced test, “one of the major providers of tests measuring the Common Core State Standards,” has “met all of the U.S. Department of Education’s requirements for grades 3-8.” This represents the first time...
Florida is now the last state waiting for its ESSA plan to be approved by the U.S. Dept. of Education. In this piece for The 74, Blair Mann of the Collaborative for Student Success answers all your questions about what the holdup might be and...
The Tampa Bay Times’ Jeffrey Solochek asks: “What to do?” Despite the fact that the Trump Administration “has in many ways held up Florida’s education system as a model for the nation” and “hired many former Florida education officials to top jobs in its own education...
Daarel Burnette II says that a “hallmark” of ESSA was that states would have the freedom to “design one coherent set of priorities for their schools, finally putting an end to the politically divisive system that preceded ESSA, when thousands of schools answered to distinct,...
According to John Fensterwald at EdSource, the U.S. Department of Education has “raised additional questions about California’s plan for complying with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, further delaying the federal government’s approval of the plan.”
