The Hechinger Report – Emily Richmond
“To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). Finally completed last December — more than eight years late — ESSA restores more outright control to states for setting expectations for student achievement and for deciding what happens to schools that fall short of those benchmarks. It also seeks to de-emphasize test scores, although students will continue to be tested annually in most grades. And it gives states more leeway in how they identify their lowest-achieving campuses and the remedies they prescribe to help those schools improve.”(more)