COVID-19 has been a challenging issue for America's public schools and students. The pandemic highlights many issues that already impacted education but have now become far more transparent as the forced school building shutdowns and transition to online learning have spread across the nation. For the 2020-21 school year, the concern is not only operating schools efficiently and safely but also mitigating the learning loss caused by the pandemic. Some state leaders have asked the U.S. Department of Education to waive the annual federal testing and accountability requirements for 2021. This call follows the mass request and granting of waivers of the federal annual standardized test requirements in the spring of 2020, when schools physically closed, and tests could not be administered. To inform school leaders of waivers of assessment and accountability in 2020, the NSBA's Center for Public Education (CPE) gathered data from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and compiled this brief. The following report is a summary of the data (as of December 2020) about ED responses to State requests for waivers from requirements under Title I, II, III, and IV-B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) during the COVID-19 pandemic for both the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school year.