A new study highlights some of the challenges states face as they look to meet requirements of a federal law designed to ensure students have equitable opportunities for education in K-12 schools, regardless of race, income, disability or other factors.
“We found great variation in how states are implementing equity-related provisions of their plans to meet the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), depending on how they think about equity, what the concerns are in their state and the resources they have to address and support those concerns,” said the study’s lead author Jennifer B. Ayscue, assistant professor of educational evaluation policy analysis and educational leadership at North Carolina State University.
