Schneider’s ESSA Digest, Part III (Pages 90 – 105) | deutsch29

Schneider’s ESSA Digest, Part III (Pages 90 – 105) | deutsch29:

Schneider’s ESSA Digest, Part III (Pages 90 – 105)

I am in the process of carefully reading the 1,061-page Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the December 10, 2015, reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), and writing a series of posts that will form a digest of those 1,061 pages.

This ESSA digest will be a long-term endeavor.

My first entry covers the first 47 pages.

My second entry continues by adding info from pages 47 to 90.

And now, I offer information on pages 90 to 105.

Sometimes I alter the format of quoted excerpts for ease of reading. Sometimes I comment, and sometimes I just summarize.

We will just dive in:

In my last installment, I left off on page 90 with schools determined to be in need of “comprehensive support and improvement.” As a condition for receiving Title I money, a state must notify a district regarding any school determined to be one tagged for needing improvement. The district and “stakeholders (including principals
and other school leaders, teachers, and parents)” are to “locally develop and implement a comprehensive support and improvement plan for the school to improve student outcomes” and which satisfies the following conditions:

(i) is informed by all indicators described in subsection (c)(4)(B) [centered on the federally-mandated annual testing], including student performance against State-determined long-term goals;

(ii) includes evidence-based interventions;

(iii) is based on a school-level needs assessment;

(iv) identifies resource inequities, which may include a review of local educational agency and school-level budgeting, to be addressed through implementation of
such comprehensive support and improvement plan;

(v) is approved by the school, local educational agency, and State educational agency; and

(vi) upon approval and implementation, is monitored and periodically reviewed by the State educational agency (pages 90-91).

There is also the additional requirement that states are to “establish exit criteria” for schools in need of comprehensive improvement– including setting a deadline not to exceed four years and to “result in more rigorous State-determined action, such as Schneider’s ESSA Digest, Part III (Pages 90 – 105) | deutsch29: