Ed Source – Louis Freedberg and John Fensterwald
“One week after President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, the U.S. Department of Education sent out a four-page letter today to the school chiefs of every state providing guidance for what to do during the transition period to the new law, which will go into effect in the 2017-18 school year. As part of the transition, the federal government will hold two public hearings, one in Washington D.C., and one in Los Angeles. The California meeting is scheduled for Jan. 19. The federal hearing is scheduled a week after the State Board of Education meeting, at which the board will hear a presentation on the impact of the new law on California’s plan to create a new school accountability and improvement system over the next year. Federal education officials currently are drawing up regulations designed to flesh out the new law and actions the states must take in the transition to it from the No Child Left Behind Act.”(more)