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Ilana M. Umansky; Taiyo Itoh – AERA Open, 2024
Federal law defines English learner (EL) eligibility differently for Indigenous, compared to non-Indigenous, students, allowing for broader entry into the EL category, along with its accompanying resources and services. We interviewed EL leaders from 25 state departments of education to learn about their level of understanding of the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, State Departments of Education, English Language Learners, Federal Regulation
Jackson, Robin G.; Coomer, M. Nickie; Dagli, Cesur; Skelton, Seena M.; Kyser, Tiffany S.; Thorius, Kathleen King – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2017
This issue of "Equity Dispatch" spotlights the 2017 Midwest & Plains Equity Assistance Center's State Equity Leaders Summit, centering the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The focus is on re-centering the spirit of Civil Rights legislation through leveraging ESSA to support equity-focused school transformation, highlighting the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Leadership, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Murphy, Patrick; Rainey, Lydia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2012
This project examines how eight state education agencies engaged the charge of improving their lowest-performing schools. The states examined are among the most active and intentional in this regard. In many ways, they are at the leading edge of what could eventually become 50 different experiments in performance management. By focusing on states…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, School Turnaround, Agency Role, Educational Change