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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聽聽newsletter, which you can聽! (See our recent ESSA updates聽from previous weeks right here.)

In聽Education Week, Megan Duff and Priscilla Wohlstetter聽 of a recent study they conducted with other colleagues regarding the ESSA planning process around the Every Student Succeeds Act. The study concludes that the process has 鈥渧eered off course.鈥�

How so? ESSA, unlike its predecessor, No Child Left Behind, reverts much of the power to set education policy back to the states when it comes to things like assessments, school improvement, and other areas. But, they argue, the U.S. Department of Education 鈥渋s still responsible for providing guidance, support, and corrective action to the states,鈥� and their 鈥渁nalysis found the current administration is falling short of their end of the bargain.鈥�

The study had three primary findings: The Trump administration is 鈥渢aking a laissez-faire approach鈥� to the law鈥檚 implementation, 鈥減rioritizing some areas of ESSA over others,鈥� and states 鈥渉olding their ground are rewarded.鈥� Duff and Wohlstetter conclude by stating: 鈥淔or every student to succeed, all levels of government need to confirm the ESSA bargain: providing states leeway to innovate while offering sufficient regulatory guidance and support to ensure states comply with the law in full. ESSA may increase state autonomy, but it does not absolve the federal government of its responsibility.鈥�

Check out below for more recent headlines of how states are implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act:

Feds approve Georgia, North Carolina assessment pilots

Under ESSA, the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority program 鈥渓ifts some federal requirements related to student testing and encourages models that give teachers more useful data on student learning,鈥� Linda Jacobson in Education Dive. Georgia and North Carolina 鈥� along with Louisiana and New Hampshire 鈥� will take part in this U.S. Department of Education pilot program, which lets states use diverse assessment approaches instead of 鈥渢raditional鈥� standardized tests. “This pilot program gives states that are willing to try a new approach an opportunity to assess student achievement without sacrificing rigor or skirting accountability,鈥� said Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. 鈥淚 look forward to seeing the impact this study will have on student outcomes.”

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K-12 spending tracking and its 鈥済aping holes鈥澛�

鈥淲here, exactly, do those billions of dollars taxpayers annually spend for schools go?鈥澛犅燚aarel Burnette in聽Education Week. 鈥淚n most states, policymakers have no idea.鈥� So they 鈥済ive lawmakers a receipt that includes a summation of broad spending categories, a breakout of average salaries, and maybe a mention of whether spending is up or down.鈥� States’ 鈥渋nability to track spending accurately was on full display this year as they attempted to answer a national call to spend more on schools and raise stagnant teacher pay, comply with a looming fiscal transparency rule under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act to break out school spending amounts, and work with state legislatures to replace decades-old state funding formulas.鈥� But researchers insist that more detailed and timely data will be necessary to 鈥渟how where states can make cost savings and show where districts need more money.鈥�

The long journey of whole child education聽

鈥淲hat does a 鈥榳hole child education鈥� mean to educators?鈥� David Griffith and Sean Slade of in EdSurge. 鈥淭o some it references providing nutritious food or breakfast in the classroom. To others it focuses on mental health and developmental social and emotional learning skills.鈥� The term 鈥渨hole child education鈥� has also been defined as 鈥渦nderstanding brain-based learning and adjusting teaching to suit what we now know about memory, knowledge and meaning鈥� and can 鈥渆quate to providing enough counselors in schools; developing systems for student voice and agency; encouraging that schools address the cultural context of their students; or ensuring equity and equitable access to opportunities.鈥� At ASCD, they say, it’s all those things and more. They also note that the context around the conversations on this topic has changed: 鈥淲e鈥檝e gone from No Child Left Behind鈥檚 top-down, rigidly prescriptive and punitive test-based model to the Every Student Succeeds Act鈥檚 state and locally determined set of multiple measures of student achievement.鈥�

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