The Dept. of Education published a blog post from National Black Child Development Institute President Tobeka Green, highlighting their first Parent Power Bootcamp. Partnering with the Dept. of Education, the event provided information to parents, teachers, administrators, and others about the impact ESSA will have...
FOX News contributor Juan Williams writes in the Wall Street Journal that ESSA gives states the ability to hold schools accountable for their failures educating minority students. Noting that drop-out rates for African-American and Hispanic students are down, Williams says states can use ESSA to...
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions held a full committee hearing on ESSA titled “ESSA Implementation: Update from the U.S. Secretary of Education on Proposed Regulations.” During the hearing, King heard criticism from several senators: Chris Murphy (D-CT) argued that “the acccountability...
To ensure funding for poor and underserved schools, the Congressional Asian Pacific, Black, and Hispanic Caucuses sent a letter to Secretary John King demanding that the Dept. Of Education “use its regulatory authority to guide and enforce the use of federal funds by local education...
The Politics K-12 Team at Education Week surveyed all 50 states regarding their use of “super subgroups” in their NCLB waivers that “can no longer be used in place of individual subgroups of student for accountability purposes” under ESSA. The super subgroups combined smaller subgroups...
Education Week examines Alliance for Excellent Education’s concerns that the accountability regulations in ESSA “would let too many English-language learners, students in special education, minorities, and disadvantaged students slip through the cracks.” The report focuses on a provision that would allow states to pick any...
Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and the former governor of West Virginia, authored an opinion piece which explains that “ESSA specifically calls for “evidence-based” interventions, and education leaders will need to study the numbers before deciding which programs to adopt. This...
The Dept. of Education issued a press release highlighting ESSA’s provisions intended to promote equality among school districts. The release notes that the regulations “uphold ESSA’s critical civil rights protections and enhance equity for historically underserved students by including all students and each subgroup in...
Congressman John Conyers (D-MI-13) wrote an article for Time Magazine on segregation in schools. In it, he voiced support for ESSA and its ability to provide schools with the resources they need to improve student performance. Read more here.
Education Trust submitted a letter to the Dept. of Education regarding ESSA guidelines. Ed Trust encouraged the Dept. of Education to “ensure states consider their student achievement goals when deciding which schools need help working with subgroups of students,” and require summative ratings for all...
