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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.)

States are now required under ESSA to 鈥減ublish school-level spending data in report cards.鈥� In this new聽, the Data Quality Campaign seeks to 鈥渋llustrate what it looks like when leaders 鈥� from state and local policymakers to principals and community advocates 鈥� use school-level spending data in their roles to ensure successful, well-resourced classrooms.鈥�

According to DQC, school spending information 鈥渟hines a light on the education investments in communities and how they are used to serve students.鈥� School spending data can assist local leaders in making informed decisions about how resources will be allocated in the schools that need them the most, as well as how they can be used to improve the learning outcomes of those students.

See below for more ESSA news.

ESSA & low-performing schools

Much of ESSA 鈥渄eals with schools struggling to meet expectations,鈥澛犅燗ndrew Ujifusa in聽Education Week. 鈥淎nd we have new information concerning just how many of them are being tagged as needing improvement鈥澛爑nder ESSA.

Ujifusa notes that there is a lot of variation by state. A new report from the Center on Education Policy takes a state-by-state look at how many schools have been flagged for comprehensive support and improvement, targeted support and improvement, or additional targeted support and improvement under the federal law. 鈥淭he share of schools getting each one of those labels can vary dramatically from state to state,鈥� says Ujifusa. 鈥淚n Florida, for example, 69 percent of schools fell into one of those buckets, while in Maryland, just 3 percent of schools have received one of the labels so far.鈥�

Principals & ESSA concerns

Also in聽Education Week, Denisa R. Superville聽聽a recent MCH Strategic Data survey that finds that the 鈥渋ssues that weigh heavily on principals’ minds remained more or less the same.鈥� However, this year, 鈥渢he level of concern on the principals’ part shifted in some cases鈥� to issues such as ESSA and technology.

In comparison to previous years, 鈥減rincipals said they were less anxious about how the Every Student Succeeds Act will affect them and that they were confident about their knowledge of the 2015 law, with about 70 percent of principals saying they believed they had a strong grasp of how ESSA will affect school funding.鈥�

Tennessee PTA gets grant to better inform parents about school report cards

聽The Chattanoogan, the National PTA has awarded five states, including its Tennessee affiliate, grants to help inform parents about school report cards and 鈥渆mpower them to advocate to ensure this data is accessible, transparent and actionable.鈥�

ESSA 鈥渞equires school districts and states to annually release a school report card, which includes important information about school environment, demographics and performance on the state, local and school level.鈥� This data, however, 鈥渄oesn鈥檛 always speak for itself,鈥� said Jim Accomando, president of the National PTA. 鈥淲e are pleased to provide Tennessee PTA with resources to empower parents to read, interpret and take action to turn school report cards into results for their child鈥檚 school.鈥�

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