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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.)

鈥淎fter weathering a political storm over the Trump administration’s proposed budget at the end of March, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos continued her run of public appearances into April,鈥澨�听Andrew Ujifusa for听Education Week. 鈥淒eVos received widely varied reactions from state education leaders and from lawmakers on Capitol Hill鈥� on issues such as arming teachers and testing to ESSA implementation.

In each appearance, DeVos 鈥渟tressed she is trying to help students and teachers who she said are ill-served by traditional education practices and systems.鈥�

In other Department of Education news, last month the agency听听a new report called Opportunities and Responsibilities for State and Local Report Cards Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act, and announced a public comment period that ends today.

The document was designed to provide guidance to state and local education agencies as they work to implement the report card requirements. 鈥淎lthough SEAs and LEAs may consider this document in developing and disseminating report cards, an SEA or LEA is free to develop alternative approaches and formats that are consistent with applicable Federal statutes and regulations.鈥�

See below for more ESSA news:

Arizona鈥檚 new plan for rating schools

Breanna Edwards听听for the听Arizona Daily Star听that Arizona has 鈥渄ecided how it will adapt its hotly debated A-F letter grading system鈥� for districts that have chosen to end use of the AzMerit test.

The State Board of Education will evaluate growth based on student subgroup data and how they perform on the AzMerit, SAT or ACT. Additionally, the report cards will 鈥渇actor in those cohorts鈥� dropout and graduation rates.鈥� This change to the state鈥檚 鈥渓etter grading system is temporary because Arizona鈥檚 decision to allow school districts to administer different types of tests instead of the state鈥檚 AzMerit assessment has been found to violate the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.鈥�

鈥楪iving data a voice鈥�: National School Boards Association offers tips on how to make the most of new ESSA transparency

According to a听听from the National School Boards Association, under ESSA, 鈥渆ach state educational agency (SEA) and local educational agency (LEA) that receives Title I Part A funds must prepare and disseminate an annual report card that includes a variety of data about public schools.鈥�

To help educators and administrators use this data to 鈥渇oster meaningful engagement among parents, teachers and other key stakeholders,鈥� NSBA puts forth three tips for readers: 1. Use new benchmarks and constructs on state report cards;听2. Engage parents in the school policymaking process using both academic and non-academic information on the state report cards; and 3. Provide positive support to teachers based on the detailed data on state report cards.

National Conference of State Legislatures offers public access to 鈥楨SSA State Plan Database鈥�

The National Conference of State Legislatures鈥� College and Career Readiness State Legislation Project recently released an听听of all state accountability plans submitted to and approved by the U.S. Department of Education. The database gives users the opportunity to access individual state profiles and summaries, sort and filter plan components, and locate state legislation. The project also includes an听听that 鈥減rovides insight into selected requirements of the State Plans, a summary of commonalities seen throughout the approved State Plans and guiding questions to support legislators and legislative staff utilizing the information available in the database.鈥�

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