From Numbers to Insight: Leveraging ESSA’s School Spending Requirement for Fair Funding
January 16, 2020 by Ivy Morgan For decades, researchers have used federal data to show that within states, the districts with the most students from low-income backgrounds and the most students of color receive less funding…
Letter to U.S. Department of Education Regarding Changes to Civil Rights Data Collection
November 18, 2019 by Ed Trust Director of the Information Collection Clearance Division Attn: Rosa Olmeda U.S. Department of Education 550 12th Street SW Potomac City Plaza, Room 9089 Washington, D.C. 20202-0023 RE: Docket ID: ED-2019-ICCD-0119…
The Education Trust Comments on the Department of Education’s Final Report Card Guidance
November 12, 2019 by Ary Amerikaner U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education ATTN: Report Card Document 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 Download Our Full Comments RE: Opportunities and Responsibilities for…
Why We Need to Protect the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) from Secretary DeVos’ Proposed Cuts
October 02, 2019 by Ary Amerikaner What happened: The Trump administration proposed several changes to the U.S. Department of Education’s biennial Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Public comments are being accepted on the proposal until November…
Joint Letter from 22 Advocacy Organizations to the U.S. Department of Education Regarding Proposed Guidance on State and Local Report Cards Under ESSA
April 29, 2019 by Ed Trust U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education ATTN: Report Card Document 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20202 Download the Letter Dear Secretary DeVos, The Every Student…
Letter from The Education Trust to the U.S. Department of Education Regarding Proposed Guidance on State and Local Report Cards Under ESSA
April 24, 2019 by Ed Trust U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education ATTN: Report Card Document 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20202 Dear Secretary DeVos, On behalf of The Education Trust,…
New Civil Rights Data Collection Shows Students of Color Are Being Systematically Pushed Out
Twice as likely — this phrase can have either good or bad connotations. In the case of new data released by the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil…
Katie Berger Testifies On Importance of Creating National Student-Level Data System
February 08, 2018 by Katie Berger Katie Berger testifies before National Committee on Institutional Quality & Integrity (NACIQI) on the importance of establishing a student-level data system to improve equity & student outcomes. Good morning. My…
Evidence-Based Strategies for Improvement: What Are They, and Where Can I Find Them?
April 17, 2017 by Allison Rose Socol, Ph.D. Although the Every Student Succeeds Act leaves a lot of decisions about how to improve struggling schools to schools and districts, the law is quite clear that the strategies leaders…