Current News

Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael Flanagan has proposed a hybrid system of county-wide school districts to help struggling local districts.

The Louisiana Department of Education says the Course Choice pilot program, which lets students enroll in courses not available in their local schools, has surpassed enrollment capacity and used up all $2 million in funding less than a month after its approval by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

The Florida State Board of Education decided on July 16 that school grades will not fall by more than one letter, regardless of their score, when rankings are released soon.

A new report by the Strategic Data Project and the Delaware Department of Education shows that the state's educators have improved their ability to track college readiness.

CCSSO has released a new resource: Standards for Educational Leaders: An Analysis, written by Mary Canole (CCSSO) and Michelle D. Young (UCEA). The report reviews the ISLLC 2008 standards in light of today's educational context, research and practice.

CCSSO executive director Chris Minnich released a statement regarding the Federal Communications Commission's bipartisan vote to seek public comment regarding improvements to the E-Rate program, which provides internet access to public schools and libraries:

In joint partnership, Achieve, The Council of Chief State School Officers, and Student Achievement Partners have developed a Toolkit for Evaluating the Alignment of Instructional and Assessment Materials to the Common Core State Standards.

In 2012, MetaMetrics®, developer of the widely adopted Lexile ® Framework for Reading and Quantile® Framework for Mathematics, and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), a nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the United States, joined forces to combat the summer loss epidemic by offering the “Chief’s Summer Reading Challenge”

The U.S. Department of Education has offered states with waivers from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act additional time to begin using new teacher evaluation systems in hiring, firing, and promoting educators.

New Hampshire is the most recent state to receive a waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act.