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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 , Adam Kirk Edgerton explores the relationship between state education departments and the districts they oversee under the Every Student Succeeds Act. 鈥淪ince 2015, a team of faculty and graduate student researchers at the Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) has collected a broad range of data on ESSA鈥檚 implementation across the country, as well as data specific to California, Texas, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts,鈥� he writes. 鈥淏ecause we began collecting data immediately after ESSA鈥檚 passage, we have been able to observe closely as its implementation has evolved over the law鈥檚 first few years.鈥�

Additionally, while these six 鈥減artner states鈥� differ in multiple ways, many of the group鈥檚 findings 鈥渁re remarkably consistent across states,鈥� and in every state where they conducted interviews, they found 鈥渢he underlying logic of education policy over the last two decades 鈥� the goal of developing, implementing, and using tests to hold students accountable to K-12 standards 鈥� continues to hold sway in state education associations (SEAs) and school districts.鈥�

However, simultaneously, 鈥渃alls for 鈥榣ocal control鈥� have translated mostly to a weakening of test-based accountability and a devolution of decision-making power down to the school district level, which, in turn, has led to a new series of unintended consequences for policy makers to consider.鈥�

Here are the week鈥檚 top headlines for how states are implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act:

Early-childhood programs, now under ESSA, more segregated than K-12 schools

In Education Dive, Linda Jacobson on how early-childhood programs are 鈥渢wice as likely as kindergarten and 1st-grade classrooms to have all black or all Hispanic children鈥� and 鈥渁lso less likely to be 鈥榮omewhat integrated鈥� with 10-20% of children being black or Hispanic, according to a new Urban Institute study.鈥�

Jacobson says that 鈥渢he original聽Preschool Development Grant (PDG)聽program in 2014 included language encouraging states to 鈥榠ntegrate, to the extent practicable鈥� preschool programs in 鈥榚conomically diverse, inclusive settings.鈥欌�� But whether 鈥渢he new PDG program for children from birth through age 5, now part of the Every Student Succeeds Act,聽will support integration efforts depends largely on how the 46 states that received initial funding for a needs assessment wrote their plans.鈥�

Montana given $50 million federal literacy grant

the聽Sydney Herald, Montana recently received a five-year, $50 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education as part of the Striving Readers Comprehensive State Development Program.

The grant has numerous 鈥渙utcome expectations,鈥� including increasing 鈥渢he percentage of all participating disadvantaged student groups who meet or exceed proficiency on the state reading/language arts assessments by 5 percent annually as defined in Montana鈥檚 state plan under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).鈥�

States struggling to live up to law on foster students

鈥淯nder federal law, states are required to help maintain a stable educational environment for youth in foster care, even when the children鈥檚 personal lives are in tumult,鈥� Rebecca Klein for Huffington Post. 鈥淏ut most places are struggling to follow the law, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.鈥�

ESSA says foster students must be able to remain in the same school regardless of home placement, so districts, state officials and child welfare agencies must figure out such children鈥檚 transportation to and from school (and how to pay for it). ESSA also 鈥渞equires states to report graduation rates for students in foster care. However, a 2018 investigation by聽HuffPost and The Hechinger Report found that most states were falling short on this front, too. At that time, only four states could identify graduation rates for those children.鈥�

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