September 2011
On behalf of more than 15,000 education leaders from the state of California we are pleased to present the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) recommendations for the upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
The Association of California School Administrators is the largest statewide administrator association in the country. The recommendations contained in this report reflect the expertise of superintendents, principals and vice principals, curriculum, instruction and assessment experts, human resource administrators, special education and English learner experts, state and federal categorical program directors, classified and school and district budget experts.
ACSA’s ESEA Task Force has spent a year reviewing and deliberating over the components of the current version of ESEA known as the No Child Left Behind Act. Our ESEA Task Force also provides in this report our response to President Obama’s Blu
e The recommendations fall into seven areas:
1. College and Career Ready Students 2. Assessing Student Achievement 3. Rigorous and Fair Accountability for All Levels of the Education System 4. Meeting the Needs of English Learners and Other Diverse Learners 5. Other Key ESEA Reforms 6. Teacher and Leadership Pathways 7. Great Teachers and Leaders
We look forward to discussing and sharing these recommendations with policymakers and other stakeholder organizations at the local, state and federal level.
Sincerely, prin t for Re m for .
Alice Petrossian President ACSA
Steve Betando Chair
ACSA ESEA Task Force
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