ESSA in Colorado - A Conversation on the Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act

In order to demonstrate that Colorado meets the requirements of ESSA and to access the funding allocated to the state, CDE must submit a plan to the United States Department of Education for approval. Fundamental to the requirements of the ESSA plan, is that the department engage in meaningful consultation with a broad range of education stakeholders in developing the plan and, once a draft of the plan has been completed, to make the plan available for public comment.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) School Improvement Spoke Committee requests your feedback, by January 13, 2017, on key school improvement decision points needed for implementation.

The specific decision points available for comment now for the school improvement section of the state plan are:

The U.S.

At the November meeting, the Colorado State Board of Education agreed to delay the submission of the state’s plan for the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Colorado, as with other states, must develop a plan on how to implement ESSA by next year. The Colorado State Board of Education is expected to receive a draft of the state plan by early 2017 and was planning on delivering the document to the U.S. Department of Education by early March.