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(College) Ready or Not, Here Comes ESSA!

The latest reauthorization of the ESEA, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, provides a great deal of testing flexibility to states. At the high school level, it specifically allows […]

March 16, 2016

Postsecondary

Blog Post

Standards & Curriculum, STEM/STEAM

Constitutional Obligations for Public Education

This 50-state review provides an informative overview of the constitutional language for each state and how the individual constitutions address public schools. Download

March 8, 2016

K-12, Postsecondary

Policy Report

AL, CA, CO, DC, DE, MT, TX, WY

Funding

New Partnership Formed to Address Important Campus Safety Issues

Education Commission of the States and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education recently partnered to address legislative developments and offer considerations for leaders in higher education and policy […]

Feb. 24, 2016

K-12, Postsecondary

Blog Post

What Are "U" Thinking? STEM challenges and a state model

The challenge to many states’ STEM initiatives can be summed up in three “U”s: uncoordinated, underfunded and un-evaluated. What do these “U”s actually mean and how can states address the challenge? […]

Feb. 10, 2016

High School, K-12, Postsecondary

Blog Post

ID, SC, UT

STEM/STEAM

State-Level Free Community College: Policy transformation or more of the same?

Every morning at the public high school across the street from my home, students show up from a few different neighborhoods: the middle income section that I live in, larger […]

Feb. 3, 2016

Postsecondary

Blog Post

HI, IL, MD, MO, MS, OK, OR, TX, WA

Stay Focused on the Next Degree, Don’t Just Refinance the Degree Earned

In responding to the student debt crisis, Brian A. Sponsler, Ed.D., director of postsecondary and workforce development at Education Commission of the States, encourages state leaders to keep state policy […]

Jan. 20, 2016

Postsecondary

Blog Post

Funding

State Legislation: by Topic

For our interactive map of enacted and vetoed state legislation from the 2022-current legislative sessions, please click here. For legislation prior to 2021, select by state or from the list […]

Oct. 15, 2015

Early Education (P-3), High School, K-12, Postsecondary

State Legislation

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Funding, Governance, Safety, Standards & Curriculum, Students & Families, Teaching Profession, Transitions

State Education Policy Checklist

This collaboratively developed resource provides policymakers with a tool to help develop new legislation and maximize future success. Updated Nov. 2018 Download

Sept. 1, 2015

Early Education (P-3), High School, K-12, Postsecondary

Policy Report

Nationwide

Governance

Governors' top education issues: 2015 state of the state addresses

This report examines the top six education priorities for governors in 2015 based on their state of the state addresses.

Feb. 23, 2015

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(College) Ready or Not, Here Comes ESSA!

Constitutional Obligations for Public Education

2016 State of the State Addresses: Governors’ top education issues

New Partnership Formed to Address Important Campus Safety Issues

What Are "U" Thinking? STEM challenges and a state model

State-Level Free Community College: Policy transformation or more of the same?

Stay Focused on the Next Degree, Don’t Just Refinance the Degree Earned

State Legislation: by Topic

State Education Policy Checklist

Governors' top education issues: 2015 state of the state addresses