ESSA's New Report Cards Arrive Just In Time For This Year's Election

Education Week: All of the political infighting last year in states over their accountability plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act has pretty much died down.

But state education departments over the last two months have been rolling out their newest rankings of schools under the federally mandated ESSA plans and, with all the new indicators, there are inevitably lots of changes to districts' academic performance.

The releases come just in time for this year's election season, and gubernatorial and legislative candidates in states including Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas are attempting to exploit the newest results.

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