State Information State contacts and data

• NCLB Act
• Accountability and Assessment
• Teacher Quality
• Budget
• Choice and Charter schools
• Flexibility
• Reading
• Supplemental Educational Services
• More guidance, regulations, and policy letters

No Child Left Behind Act

• The Elementary and Secondary Education Act as reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

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Accountability and Assessment

• Accountability plans — state assessment systems and accountability plans, decision letters, enhanced assessments, peer review
• Adequate yearly progress — calculating participation rates
• Differentiated accountability pilot program — helps states create nuanced approaches to underperforming schools
• Growth models — letters, guidance, state applications
• National Technical Advisory Council (NTAC) — to advise on state standards, assessments and accountability systems
• Regulations and guidance — Title I reporting, students with disabilities, English language learners, schools in need of improvement, and more
• Report cards guidance

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Teacher Quality

• Guidance on Title II Part A, state plans and progress on HQT goals, annual reports, letters, programs...
• Paraprofessional requirements and guidance under NCLB

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Budget

• ED budget office
• What the President's budget means for your state
• Title I allocations to states

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Choice and Charter Schools

• Guidance and policy letters, allocating funds to charter schools, public school choice, transportation costs

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Flexibility

• States may request flexibility from No Child Left Behind
• States and school districts have considerable flexibility under current laws
• Waivers granted under No Child Left Behind

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Reading

• Reading First
• Early Reading First

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Supplemental Educational Services

• Supplemental educational services
• More on supplemental educational services

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More guidance, regulations, and policy letters

• Elementary/secondary guidance
• Elementary/secondary regulations
• Key policy letters signed by the Secretary or Deputy Secretary
• NCLB policy letters to states on a range of topics: identifying districts in need of improvement, Title I allocations, district-affiliated entities becoming SES providers, Hurricane Katrina flexibility agreements, local and state flexibility agreements, transferability, use of funds, and more

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