The state’s dashboard of school-level per-pupil expenditure data can help education leaders and stakeholders view spending through a new lens and inform conversations about how schools and districts use their resources.
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has given states greater flexibility to use innovative approaches to improve student achievement. Now that the Tennessee Succeeds plan for ESSA has been approved, SCORE has informally heard from schools and districts about the need for support and resources to help with implementation of the strategic plan. Spotlighted here…
The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) has released this statement from Executive Chairman and CEO Jamie Woodson about the Every Student Succeeds Act plan that the Tennessee Department of Education has submitted for federal review: As Tennessee has climbed in national rankings of academic performance, many people from elsewhere have asked why the state…
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…