December 2015

SCORE Outlines 5-Year Strategic Plan to Support Student Success in Tennessee

December 17, 2015 by SCORE

The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) has announced its new five-year strategic plan to help sustain and advance Tennessee’s momentum and success as the fastest-improving state in the nation in student achievement. Since 2009, SCORE, a non-profit, non-partisan organization, has been an active and leading player in collaboratively supporting Tennessee’s work to better prepare students…

Every Student Succeeds Act Initiates New Era of Education Policy

December 9, 2015 by Indira Dammu

After a U.S. Senate vote of 85-12 and a U.S. House of Representatives vote of 359-64, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the successor to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), into law. The final version of the ESSA totals more than a thousand pages and follows years of negotiations. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, one of the…