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Sophie Zamarripa; Carrie Hahnel; Bonnie O’Keefe – Bellwether, 2025
The Trump administration's push to scale back the federal role in education could mean more autonomy for states. But this increased decision-making power will also make state K-12 accountability more important than ever. States must ensure education funding is used effectively, especially for those students furthest from opportunity. While some…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Accountability, Decision Making
Sarah Ohls; Lauren Covelli; Jonathan Schweig – RAND Corporation, 2025
Microschools are an alternative to traditional schools for families who might be dissatisfied with local school options. Typically, "microschools" are defined as small, tuition-based schools (serving around 15 students) that are designed to offer a more personalized and flexible learning experience compared with traditional schools.…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Models, School Choice, Progress Monitoring
Wicks, Anne; Taylor-Raymond, Justine – George W. Bush Institute, 2023
It is clear that young people bore the brunt of the pandemic's impact. Disrupted learning, sometimes stretching for two years, forced many students off track and behind academically. Leaders are now faced an unprecedented need to make smart investments with federal relief funds in efforts that accelerate student learning. District leaders should…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Therriault, Susan Bowles; Champagne, Erica – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) with its research partner have developed a system that changes the equation on monitoring. The research-driven approach to monitoring allows DESE, within its existing activities and resources, to use monitoring to improve the state system of support as well as direct…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Improvement, Progress Monitoring, Low Achievement
Watson, Michael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
The move toward assessments that measure student growth, rather than just proficiency, has been perceived as an improvement in state accountability systems. However, Michael Watson explains that, for many students, these measures present an incomplete picture. Because they are based on grade-level assessments, any growth achieved by students who…
Descriptors: Student Development, Measurement Techniques, Achievement Gains, Evaluation Methods
Hartong, Sigrid – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This contribution takes a critical perspective on digital school performance platforms (SPP), which today play a key role in US state education monitoring and accountability. Using examples from two different US state education agencies, I provide an analytical disentanglement of some key dimensions of such platforms' enactment and materiality. I…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Technology Uses in Education, Performance, Accountability
Olson, Lynn – State Education Standard, 2020
Last spring's sudden shift to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted K-12 education in an unprecedented way. Upon Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's waiver of federally mandated state testing for spring 2020, it also triggered the first nationwide break in state testing in half a century. With students returning to school…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Testing, Educational Change
Fox, Lauren; Wagner, Lindsay – Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2020
For more than twenty-five years, the Public School Forum of North Carolina has published an annual list of the top issues that they believe should or will likely be at the forefront of conversations around K-12 public education policy in the upcoming year. They intend for these publications, compiled through engagement with staff, board members,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy, Educational Finance
Gagnon, Douglas J.; Schneider, Jack – Educational Policy, 2019
School accountability systems in the United States have been criticized on a number of fronts, mainly on grounds of completeness and fairness. This study examines an alternative school quality framework--one that seemingly responds to several core critiques of present accountability systems. Examining results from a pilot study in a diverse urban…
Descriptors: Accountability, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Urban Schools
Education Trust-West, 2019
Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), every state must develop a plan to provide a quality education to all students, hold schools accountable for how all students achieve, and identify and help schools that are struggling. It matters greatly how California designs its accountability system and supports school improvement. Getting this…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
Dunn, Lenay; Ambroso, Eric – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2019
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in 2015, signaled a major shift in the roles of states and districts in supporting school improvement. Under ESSA, state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) have more responsibility and flexibility in developing and implementing plans, informed by local context, to support the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, State Departments of Education
Woods, Julie; Rafa, Alyssa – Education Commission of the States, 2018
This special report -- informed by the Education Commission of the States' March 2018 School Improvement Thinkers Meeting -- guides state leaders toward a better understanding of how to improve lower-performing schools. This brief contains questions in four key areas to provide a road map for digging into school improvement systems and orienting…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Change Strategies, Educational Objectives, Public Education
Houston Independent School District, 2023
The Board of Education's mission is to equitably educate the whole child so that every student graduates with the tools to reach their full potential (Houston Independent School District (HISD), 2019). To succeed in their mission, the board participates in Lone Star Governance, whose intent is to provide a continuous improvement model for…
Descriptors: School Districts, Boards of Education, Board of Education Policy, Educational Policy
D'Brot, Juan; Keng, Leslie; Landl, Erika – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2018
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) marked the beginning of a new development cycle for accountability systems. State leaders once again have an opportunity to redesign their accountability systems based on the provisions included in ESSA and to ensure that systems improve outcomes for all students. The correct identification of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education, 2017
English learners (ELs) are among the fastest-growing populations of students in our nation's public schools. This diverse subgroup of approximately 4.5 million students brings important cultural and linguistic assets to the public education system, but also faces a greater likelihood of lower graduation rates, academic achievement, and college…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Accountability, Resource Materials, Educational Legislation