How well do you know ESSA?

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Test your knowledge of the Every Student Succeeds Act with this quiz. Everyone who completes the quiz has a chance at winning an ISEA swag bag full of goodies. All answers are found in the current and past issues of the ISEA Communique and at www.nea.org/essabegins.

What is the "opportunity dashboard?"

a range of school quality indicators which allows leaders to track student success

a smart phone app that connects teachers and prinicipals

a new slogan from the Ford Motor Company

a federally mandated handout to be distributed to all students at the start of the school year

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States get to determine their own accountability plans; these are supposed to take effect

in the 2020-2021 school year

in the 2017-2018 school year

in the 2019-2020 school year

they've already taken effect

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The state must “meaningfully consult” with stakeholders as it develops its state accountability plan. These stakeholder groups must include

teachers

education support professionals

principals

all of the above

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While states get to pick their own goals, the goals must address:

school funding, graduation rates and English-language proficiency

graduation rates, English-language proficiency and proficiency on tests

proficiency on tests, graduation rates and transportation costs

transportation costs, school funding and proficiency on tests

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Elementary and middle schools have to include four academic measures into their accountability systems. The first three are English-language proficiency, proficiency on state tests and another academic measure. The fourth indicator is:

student poverty

educator engagement

school climate/safety

Any of the above or whatever else the state thinks makes sense

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High schools are judged on the same indicators as elementary and middle schools, except one additional indicator must be part of the mix. That indicator is:

cafeteria menu variety

teacher-to-student ratio

graduation rates

teacher prep time

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The state has to identify and intervene in low-performing schools. These are defined as:

schools in the bottom 10 percent

schools in the bottom 7 percent

schools in the bottom 5 percent

schools in the bottom 1 percent

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The states also have to intervene in high schools with graduation rates

lower than 55 percent

lower than 67 percent

lower than 72 percent

lower than 82 percent

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If schools continue to have trouble, the state is required to step in with a remediation plan after no more than four years. That plan includes the option of

state takeover of the school

firing the principal

turning the school into a charter

all of the above

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States still have to test students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school. The high school test must

be a nationally recognized test, like the ACT or SAT, but can be chosen by the district

align to the Common Core

be the same for every district in a state

use No. 2 pencils

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Teacher evaluations in ESSA

do not have to be linked to student outcomes, unlike No Child Left Behind

must be linked to student outcomes, just like in No Child Left Behind

have to be the same for every state

are a thing of the past, teachers won’t be evaluated from now on

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The definition federal of a “highly qualified teacher” in ESSA

is someone who holds a bachelor’s degree

Optiis someone who holds a bachelor’s degree and is fully licensed by the state

is someone who holds a bachelor’s degree and is fully licensed by the state, and demonstrates competence in each core subject s/he teaches

doesn’t exist

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The percentage of students in a state that can be given alternative tests without the state applying for a waiver is

15 percent

1 percent

7 percent

12 percent

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Committees of practitioners advise administrators at the local level are encouraged under the law which specifically identifies the following groups as members

teachers

paraprofessionals

parents

all of the above

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Inserted into the law was a posthumous pardon of this heavyweight boxer who was also the subject of the Emmy-winning Ken Burns film “Unforgivable Blackness”

Joe “The Brown Bomber” Louis

Cleveland “Big Cat” Williams

Jack “The Galveston Giant” Johnson

“Smokin’” Joe Fraizer

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