Department Announces ESSA Negotiators

Recently, the U.S. Department of Education announced the names of negotiators who will be tasked with determining how the department will implement certain provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA requires that the department engage in “negotiated rulemaking” with respect to regulations affecting student assessments and “supplement, not supplant” funding provisions in the law. The negotiators were selected from among teachers, administrators, parents and other education stakeholders from around the country. The department will host public negotiating sessions in March and April. More information is available online.