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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.)

鈥淔ederal civil rights data on schools can be messy, incomplete, and at times difficult to believe,鈥� Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. 鈥淏ut the data are also critical to understanding how different groups of students experience and achieve in school,鈥�

Recently, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos pronounced that the National Center for Education Statistics must 鈥減artner with the civil rights office to overhaul the procedures for schools submitting information to the Civil Rights Data Collection.鈥� According to Sparks, 鈥渕any states still struggle to release the detailed report cards required under the Every Student Succeeds Act, which include data on civil rights issues such as discipline disparities.鈥�

DeVos鈥檚 announcement 鈥渃omes following a sharp rebuke from the Government Accountability Office, which in June found that .鈥� For example, 鈥�70 percent of districts reported no incidents of special education students being restrained or secluded in 2015-16; in 9 of 10 large districts that listed no incidents, the GAO found they had restraint or seclusion incidents which they had not reported or not collected data about.鈥�

Data tool shows less than half of high school grads college and career ready

鈥淩esearchers probing a new, interactive 鈥榙ata explorer鈥� that聽matches students鈥� outcomes with college and career readiness measures聽found that 鈥� while nearly all students are graduating from high school聽in some states 鈥� fewer than half聽are considered聽ready for college or careers,鈥� Michele Molnar in EdWeek Market Brief. 鈥淭he digital database, released by nonprofit organization Achieve, is a聽one-stop aggregation of available information that connects student outcomes聽with college and career readiness聽indicators from all 50 states.鈥� Researchers weren鈥檛 very encouraged, according to the report, finding many 鈥済aps in high school graduates鈥� readiness for college, the military, or the job market,鈥� and 鈥渕ajor holes鈥� in the available information. Molnar also notes that 鈥淸40] of the 46 states that have defined a聽college- and career-ready measure have also included聽it as part of their high school accountability system under the Every Student Succeeds Act.鈥�

New report on how districts are doing with evidence-based improvements

The Center on Education Policy released a last week titled 鈥淒istrict Leader Interviews: How School Districts Are Responding to ESSA鈥檚 Evidence Requirements for School Improvement,鈥� which examines the implementation of ESSA鈥檚 evidence-based school improvement approaches in struggling schools. The report is based on a series of interviews with stakeholders in five districts exploring 鈥渉ow these districts selected the evidence-based school improvement strategies, the impact of the new requirements on relationships with vendors, the type of assistance received from the state, their capacity to implement the evidence requirements, and their advice for making research more accessible to educators.鈥�

Not easy to get, but collecting school-level spending data worth it

鈥淭housands of administrators across the country have spent countless hours this summer attempting to rejigger their school finance software to determine how much money they spend on each individual school 鈥� a new reporting requirement under the Every Student Succeeds Act,鈥� Daarel Burnette II in聽Education Week. 鈥�Will it be worth all the headaches?鈥� According to a new report, based on a 2014 National Center for Education Statistics pilot project, the answer is a pretty definitive yes: 鈥渃ollecting school-level data is, in fact, feasible, and that, if done right, could be a useful tool to develop policy.鈥�

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Ohio offers tips on embracing evidence-based interventions

Even though Congress passed聽ESSA聽four years ago, one aspect of the law is still a challenge for schools: the evidence-based interventions and materials tiers, Stacey Pusey. But an Ohio Department of Education initiative could help serve as a guide for other states. In this article, Eben Dowell, a senior research analyst in the department鈥檚 Office of Research, Evaluation and聽Advanced Analytics, 鈥渆xplains the department鈥檚 five-step approach to getting their educators to embrace the evidence-based mindset.鈥�

ESSA allows districts budget flexibility to help neediest students, few have used it

鈥淪tudents who need more should get more,鈥� Ramin Taheri, director of advocacy and policy for Chiefs for Change. The most direct way to ensure this happens is through student-based budgeting 鈥� and聽ESSA聽could be a big help. The law 鈥渋ncludes a provision allowing flexibility for local education agencies to consolidate eligible federal, state and local funding in order to create a single school funding system based on weighted per-pupil allocations for low-income and otherwise disadvantaged students.鈥� Taheri also notes that, given 鈥渢he power of student-based budgeting to level the playing field, it鈥檚 unfortunate that very few districts took up the call to apply for this flexibility.鈥�

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