"Title III Policy: State of the States" (2010) discusses state implementation of the Title III accountability requirements based on phone interviews with six state Title III Directors in the spring of 2009, interviews with six experts and university-based researchers who work on education for English Learners, and based on earlier data collected in 2004 through 2007 under the Study of State Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality under No Child Left Behind and under the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind. Key findings discussed in the brief are as follows: (1) All states had established English language proficiency (ELP) standards by the 2006-07 school year, and all states had established ELP assessments by the 2007-08 school year. While many states missed the earlier deadlines established by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the U.S. Department of Education, this may be attributable to the difficulty and/or newness of the tasks involved. Very few states had English language proficiency standards or assessments before the 2001 ESEA amendments required them; (2) Many states reported difficulties developing a cut score for Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAO) 1 and AMAO 2 because of their lack of experience with this type of testing. For example, establishing an English language proficiency growth target, which is required for AMAO 1, is difficult without historical growth data. In 2006-07, only 12 state directors reported that their states had finalized AMAO targets. More than half were in the process of revising their AMAOs, a process that is still continuing in some states, based on the ELP testing data they were beginning to collect through the annual assessments; and (3) In 2006-07, 30 states were applying accountability actions to districts that had not met their AMAO targets for consecutive years. Eighteen of these 30 states were using preliminary AMAO targets, since only 12 states had finalized their AMAOs by 2006-07. In addition, due to delays in the development of ELP standards, assessments, and AMAOs, some states refrained from imposing consequences. (Contains 5 exhibits and 33 notes.) [For the companion reports, "Title III Accountability: Behind the Numbers" (ED511982) and "Title III Accountability and District Improvement Efforts: A Closer Look" (ED511983).]