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This update on the Every Student Succeeds Act and the education plans now being implemented by states and school districts is produced in partnership with ESSA Essentials, an ongoing series from the Collaborative for Student Success. It鈥檚 an offshoot of their听听newsletter, which you can听! (See our recent ESSA updates听from previous weeks right here.)

鈥淣ext year, states will for the first time report听actual听school-by-school spending as required under ESSA,鈥澨�听Dale Chu in this Fordham Institute blog. 鈥淭his effort represents a quantum leap from the typical practice of tracking and reporting听average听district per-pupil spending, and is arguably the most complex piece of the law 鈥� so much so that states were given an extra year to comply with the new requirement.鈥�

Aside from the many technical and policy-related questions involved, Chu says that 鈥渢here鈥檚 an even larger question of whether we are preparing ourselves for the political challenges that lay ahead.鈥� Chu identifies key areas to keep an eye on, from paying attention to data and implications for education reform, to resource allocation issues and the potential for communities to be pitted against one another.

鈥淚n some districts,鈥� Chu writes, 鈥渟chools with affluent students are spending significantly more per pupil than schools serving low-income students,鈥� and 鈥渨hen School A is spending $12K per pupil and School B located a few blocks down the road is spending double that amount, the local newspaper headlines won鈥檛 be the only thing that鈥檚 jarring. This data will also raise uneasy questions about how teachers are distributed across schools because 80 percent of school expenditures are personnel-related.鈥�

Ultimately, he says we 鈥渟houldn鈥檛 let down our guard on the laws of political physics when it comes to this potentially high-voltage issue.鈥� And while 鈥渕oney talks,鈥� it 鈥渞emains to be seen if people will like what they hear when the data comes out next year 鈥� or whether they鈥檒l be listening.鈥�

See below for more ESSA news:

More than two dozen New Mexico schools freed from oversight

Dillon Mullan听听for the听Santa Fe New Mexican听that the New Mexico Public Education Department recently announced that 27 public schools 鈥渉ave seen sufficient improvements in student achievement and graduation rates鈥� that they no longer need to be under 鈥渋mmediate oversight.鈥�

Under ESSA, 鈥渢he state education department must designate, every three years, two categories of schools in need of more rigorous support: Title I schools, or those with high rates of low-income students, that scored among the lowest 5 percent of public schools on the state鈥檚 annual evaluations; and high schools where at least one-third of students failed to graduate within four years in two of the past three years.鈥�

ESSA, integration and Brown v. Board

Here at 蜜桃影视, Carolyn Phenicie听听on a recent House Education Committee hearing on the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, which focused 鈥渋n large part on ongoing disputes over school choice and regulatory actions taken by the Trump administration.鈥� During the hearing, experts noted that 鈥渓eaders at all levels of government can take action to promote integration.鈥� For federal officials, this means actions 鈥渓ike increasing funding for magnet school programs, adding money for Title I school improvement, and requiring states and districts to fully report all required achievement and spending data under the Every Student Succeeds Act.鈥�

ELLs, ESSA and graduation

In Education Week, Corey Mitchell听 how, according to a new Migration Policy Institute report, ESSA may be 鈥減enalizing older English-language learners and the schools that educate them.鈥� How? 鈥淏y making four-year graduation rates such a prominent part of school accountability plans, the Every Student Succeeds Act could lead administrators in traditional high schools to turn away older English-learner students who may need additional time to earn their high school diplomas.鈥�

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