The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. No Child Left Behind, also known as NCLB, put in place measures that exposed achievement gaps among traditionally underserved students and their peers and spurred an important national dialogue on education improvement. President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) law on December 10, 2015. ESSA includes provisions that will help to ensure success for students and schools.
The purpose of the consolidated state plan is to provide parents with transparent information about how the ESEA will be implemented in their state.
The U.S. Department of Education has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the ESEA.
View ESEA flexibility requests, letters to states and other related documents.
ESSA reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the federal K-12 education law of the United States.
See the various parts of the ESSA law and find links to read each section.
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The Department will conduct a peer review process of submitted State plans after each of the two submission dates.