The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the education law that is replacing No Child Left Behind and restructuring how and where federal money for education is allocated. Currently, states are working to develop their plans for spending ESSA funds. Every district, school, teacher, and student will be impacted by these state plans.

Now is the time for our mathematics education community to do what we can to ensure that state plans adequately support teachers and the teaching of mathematics. 

You can take action by:

• Organizing a review team to analyze your state's plan, using the ESSA Review Toolkit (PDF), and provide visible feedback to state leaders during the public comment period.
  Download the PowerPoint version: ESSA Review Toolkit (PPT)
  
  
• Telling us about your review team meeting. 
  
  
• Responding to the ESSA Promising Features Survey, so that we can continue to catalogue promising state plan features that will inform future work with district plans.

The ESSA Review Toolkit contains guides for:

• Reviewing State ESSA Plans
• Reading Guide for Title II, Part A
• Analysis Tool for Title II, Part A
• Guides for commenting on specific sections including
  • 2101(c)(4)(B)(ii): Design and implementation of evidence-based support and evaluation tools for teachers, principals and leaders
  • 2101(c)(4)(B)(iii): Equitable access to effective teachers
    
  • 2101(c)(4)(B)(v): Opportunities and Support for Teacher Leaders
  • 2101(c)(4)(B)(viii): PD for principals on meeting challenging academic standards
    
  • 2101(c)(4)(B)(ix): Support for Technology Integration
  • 2101(c)(4)(B)(x): Training, technical assistance, and capacity-building
  • 2101(c)(4)(B)(xvii): PD promoting high-quality instruction and leadership, including in STEM fields
• Promising Features Survey Results - State Plan Excerpts
• Note Taking Guide
  

Full ESSA Review - All Toolkits (ZIP File)

This effort is a collaboration between NCTM, the Math Teachers' Circle Network, and the Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics and with support from 100Kin10.