States: Improvements Needed to Guide ESSA Plans

THE Journal: When it comes to the Every Student Succeeds Act, school leadership from Delaware, Nebraska and South Carolina agreed that the 2015 law was demonstrably better than the No Child Left Behind Act. However, the leaders agreed that there is room for improvement.

"Our design to include science and social studies proficiency in the achievement and progress sections of our accountability system failed, even though Secretary DeVos has strongly encouraged states to 'think out of the box,'" said Susan Bunting, Delaware's Secretary of Education, at a Sept. 25 Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing.

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