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Press Release

Mississippi and Wyoming Focus on Growth of Lowest Performing Students

For Immediate Release: October 29, 2018 Contact: Renee Rybak Lang, renee.lang@nasbe.org, 703-740-4841 Mississippi and Wyoming Focus on Growth of Lowest Performing Students Alexandria, VA — When the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress was released earlier this year, most states learned that their average scores in grades 4 and 8 reading and mathematics remained relatively […]


Policy Update

States Set Sights on Growth of Low-Performing Students

With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states can include a student growth indicator as a measure of school quality in their accountability systems. Most of them do. Nine states also saw this as an opportunity and added a separate growth measure for the bottom quartile and quintile of students.


Press Release

Residencies and Induction Are Key to a Diverse, Effective Workforce

For Immediate Release: October 11, 2018 Contact: Renee Rybak Lang, renee.lang@nasbe.org, 703-740-4841 Residencies and Induction Are Key to a Diverse, Effective Workforce Alexandria, VA — State and district leaders should leverage policies for teacher residencies and induction to increase the diversity and effectiveness of their teaching workforce, as states like Hawaii and Louisiana are doing, […]


Press Release

NASBE’s State Education Standard Gets to the Core of School Finance and Ways State Policymakers Can Lead

For Immediate Release: September 19, 2018 Contact: Renee Rybak Lang, renee.lang@nasbe.org 703-740-4841 NASBE’s State Education Standard Gets to the Core of School Finance and Ways State Policymakers Can Lead Alexandria, VA – The new issue of NASBE’s journal, The State Education Standard, focuses on a topic that occupies more space on state board of education agendas […]


The Standard

Getting to the Core of School Finance

While most state boards do not directly make funding decisions in their states, they still have the opportunity to review budget requests and appropriations and provide guidance to school districts to ensure that school spending is adequate to serve the needs of all students.


Press Release

Donna Johnson Honored for Unwavering Commitment to Education

For Immediate Release: September 4, 2018 Contact: Renée Rybak Lang, renee.lang@nasbe.org, 703-740-4841 Donna Johnson Honored for Unwavering Commitment to Education Alexandria, VA—The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) is pleased to present its David Kysilko Award to Donna Johnson of the District of Columbia’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) for […]