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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.)

The Collaborative for Student Success earlier this month launched聽, a unique online platform that takes the guesswork and risk of misinformation out of state annual assessments by providing transparency on student proficiency and state testing decisions.

As a part of ESSA, states are required to give annual assessments to students in grades 3-8 in English language arts and math. For the first time, the student proficiency data for more than half of states will be publicly available online, and in one location, for anyone to view and use.

Assessment HQ will highlight state-reported student test results in math and English by student demographics and will allow users to see trends in individual states and observe the performance of different student groups, such as African-American and Hispanic students. While annual assessments can always be improved, they are one of the best tools we have to provide an honest check on states to ensure that the decisions and policies affecting young people are grounded in evidence and real results.

Federal programs, including ESSA, defray CTE costs

In Education Dive, Shawna De La Rosa how 鈥渢hree federal laws聽have an impact on CTE programs 鈥� the Every Student Succeeds Act, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.鈥� Schools that leverage these programs 鈥渃an create better pipelines for students to work in careers that don鈥檛 require four-year college degrees,鈥� according to Scott Stump, U.S. assistant secretary for career, technical and adult education. Stump spoke in front of a meeting of state school board members earlier this year.

The arts and ESSA

鈥淲hile there is a growing recognition that the arts are central to a well-rounded education, schools have been slow to incorporate that into curriculum,鈥� Naaz Modan. 鈥淭hough the Every Student Succeeds Act listed the arts and music as [tenets] of a well-rounded education, few state plans have formally included the arts in their accountability plans.鈥� Jane Best, who serves as director of the Arts Education Partnership, said that 鈥渨hile arts educators were open to exploring the possibilities that the law created, they remain unsure as to how to insert themselves into the conversation.鈥� Bringing arts into the classroom as a whole, she said, remains a 鈥渟low-moving鈥� machine.

State-by-state funding breakdown

Education Week鈥檚 Andrew Ujifusa drills down on the 聽on K-12 funding. He that ESSA has 鈥渂rought a new focus to school funding and how it works, including a new federal requirement for states to report how much individual schools receive per pupil.鈥� However, the different ways states are providing schools with this support 鈥� and how they approach different student populations, such as special education students, English learners and low-income students 鈥� can and do diverge significantly. For example, eight states 鈥斅燗labama, Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho and South Dakota 鈥斅燿o not specifically address at-risk funding for low-income students, while all the others do in some way. The study looks at all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico.

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