Help shape ESSA Implementation in New Mexico
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It is imperative that educators with classroom experience help drive ESSA's implementation, educators have a vital role to play in shaping the profession in which they dedicate so much time and effort towards. The shift from NCLB to ESSA is intended to transfer much of the decision making power from the federal government to state and local control, and in New Mexico WE must advocate for local stakeholder participation in the educational decision making process. Learn more about how you can get involved and share any feedback to ensure you have a role to play in helping create New Mexico's ESSA implementation plan.
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NCLB Core Elements Carried Over
Through the activism of parents, teachers and students throughout our entire country, the grassroots movement against the flawed "test and punish" era of NCLB played a role in developing new federal legislation for our education system. States are no longer required to set up teacher evaluation systems based largely on student test scores, and the federal government cannot require states to adopt specific assessments. With these new opportunities on the horizon there are still some elements of NCLB that ESSA carries over. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE and
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What ESSA Changes
Every Student Succeeds Act brings forth the tremendous opportunity to change the unrealistic and largely unsuccessful federal government public education policy and regulations of the past 14 years, which focused on a compliance accountability model, top-down government control over our education system, as well as strict and punitive measures of NCLB. As a result, and with overwhelming bi-partisan support, Congress rewrote the law in 2015 which transferred the majority of school improvement responsibility on the state and in turn greatly reduces the ability of the Secretary of Education to influence school improvement efforts. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WHICH NCLB POLICIES WERE ELIMINATED FROM ESSA
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