States are beginning to release lists of schools that need extra help under ESSA, and there's a particular group of schools that experts are watching closely: Additional Targeted Schools.
The Data Quality Campaign, a Washington-based advocacy organization, reported that 58 percent of parents said they had checked out their child's school report card in the past year.
A little-known provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act allows students who attend a "persistently dangerous school," or who become the victim of a violent crime on school grounds, to transfer to a safer school.
At least five states want to gauge school performance in part on access to arts education.
State chiefs who want to make changes to the ESSA plans must first consult with their governors, and give the education community an opportunity to comment.
A study of 17 states finds shortcomings in their school turnaround approaches and says it can be hard to tell how states will sustain their school improvement efforts.
The Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to publish a host of new information, including data on school-by-school spending, long-term English-learners, homeless and foster students, and more.
DeVos and her team have created a guide to help parents make better sense of the maze of data that states are required to put in their new report cards under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
More than 40 states are considering postsecondary and career readiness in school performance in some way in their Every Student Succeeds Act plans.
Newly elected governors and state chiefs may seek big changes to their states' plan to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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