ANALYSIS: ESSA State Plans Landscape and Key Trends

Quality

The U.S. Department of Education has approved Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This provided an opportunity to update our landscape analysis of the nuts and bolts of these plans to reflect the final, approved versions.

“Approval of all state plans is a major milestone and the beginning of the most important phase of this work – implementation,” said Christy Hovanetz, ExcelinEd Senior Policy Fellow. “States have outlined their strategies to improve student outcomes and now must use the information from their accountability systems to follow through with comprehensive implementation.”

Key Trends Across ESSA Plans

We will explore how states are implementing ESSA to improve struggling schools at our strategy session, “Rising to the Challenge of School Turnaround,” at the National Summit on Education Reform on Thursday, December 6.

Solution Areas:

School Accountability

Topics:

Federal Policy and Programs

About the Author

Christy Hovanetz, Ph.D., is a Senior Policy Fellow for ExcelinEd focusing on school accountability and math policies.

Solution Areas:

K-8 Math Policy, School Accountability