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This update on the Every Student Succeeds Act and the education plans now being refined by state legislatures is produced in partnership with ESSA Essentials, a new series from the Collaborative for Student Success. It鈥檚 an offshoot of their聽聽newsletter, which you can聽! (See our recent ESSA updates聽from previous weeks right here.)

Politico鈥檚 Caitlin Emma recently a survey by Collaborative for Student Success Executive Director Jim Cowen that explores whether states meaningfully engaged with stakeholders as part of the development of their ESSA accountability plans, as well as whether they took advantage of this unique opportunity to directly inform education policymaking in their states.

To find out, the collaborative polled nearly 400 ESSA stakeholders, the results of which, he writes, might 鈥渟urprise some skeptics.鈥� The survey found that 鈥渟tate policymakers listened to and valued stakeholder feedback on how to improve education,鈥� and not only 鈥渄id the stakeholders appreciate the opportunity to participate, many came prepared to contribute in robust conversations.鈥� Additionally, and 鈥減erhaps most promising,鈥� stakeholders and policymakers 鈥渉ave largely continued to collaborate more than a year after their initial partnership.鈥�

Community and advocacy stakeholders should play an important role in state education policymaking.

But have states engaged in meaningful ways with their stakeholders around ?

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Cowen also notes that the survey results complement the collaborative鈥檚 鈥溾�� initiative that identifies best practices to improve underperforming schools, while providing a 鈥渟ense of how states did with engagement during plan development and after.鈥� The results, he writes, 鈥渋ndicate the subject areas where stakeholders want to stay engaged going forward.鈥� For example, nearly 50 percent 鈥渞eported that staying engaged on identifying low-performing schools, interventions, resources and supports for these schools is important to them.鈥�

In closing, Cowen says that most respondents 鈥渁ffirmed that states were diligent and successful in maintaining a line of communications with their organizations鈥� and that given 鈥渢he daunting task of pursuing educational improvement, we are hopeful that states will continue this trend.鈥�

See below for more ESSA news.

1 What the race to control the Senate could mean for ESSA

In聽Education Week, Alyson Klein聽聽at the close battle for control of the U.S. Senate in the 2018 election and how education is playing a part as an important election-year issue, and provides a 鈥渜uick guide to where candidates in tough races stand on K-12 policy,鈥� including the Every Student Succeeds Act. Close Senate races in states like Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas 鈥� which will determine Republican or Democratic control 鈥� could be influenced by critical issues related to state development and implementation of education policy.

K-12 Education and the Battle for the U.S. Senate: What to Watch

鈥� Politics K-12 (@PoliticsK12)

2 FutureEd rebukes feds for lack of support for School Improvement Grants

FutureEd is calling out the federal government 鈥渇or dropping support for the School Improvement Grant program,鈥� Dian Schaffhauser聽聽in聽T.H.E. Journal. FutureEd鈥檚 primary concern is that 鈥渟chool improvement funding going out to states and localities under the Every Student Succeeds Act will ignore lessons already learned during the SIG era in turning around states’ lowest-performing schools.鈥� The organization recommends that the Department of Education 鈥渇ollow a different approach in evaluating the performance of the ESSA efforts and other federal projects, by putting more emphasis on studies done at the state and local level.鈥�

Our report on how the School Improvement Grant program produced far more gains than initially reported is featured in 鈥�

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3 Outgoing Indiana ed chief laments state鈥檚 dueling accountability systems

Indiana鈥檚 outgoing education chief, Jennifer McCormick, isn鈥檛 pleased with the two accountability systems now in place in her state, Daarel Burnette II聽聽in聽Education Week. In an interview, McCormick said 鈥溾�榮he and the board early on in her tenure had disagreements over what ESSA and the state’s laws required when it came to holding schools accountable,鈥� but in the end, 鈥榯he state’s education department created an ESSA-compliant accountability system while the state board kept its prior accountability system with promises to work with the legislature to make changes to it in the coming years.鈥欌��

Lame-Duck Indiana Chief Complains About Two Accountability Systems, Governance

鈥� StateEdWatch (@StateEdWatch)

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