In general, the ESEA/ESSA Act of 2015 includes provisions that will help ensure success for students and schools. Listed below are a few highlights of the law:
- Advances equity by upholding critical protections for America's disadvantaged and high-need students.
- Requires for the first time, that all students in America be taught to high academic standards that will prepare them to succeed in college and careers.
- Ensures that vital information is provided to educators, families, students, and communities through annual statewide assessments that measure students' progress toward those high standards.
- Helps to support and grow location innovations, including evidence-based and place-based interventions developed by local leaders and educators, consistent with our investing in Innovation and Promise Neighborhoods.
- Sustains and expands this administration's historic investments in increasing access to high-quality preschool.
- Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in our lowest-performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress, and where graduation rates are low over extended periods of time.
The major federal educational programs authorized under the ESEA/ESSA are Title I, Part A; Title I, Part C; Title I, Part D; Title II, Part A; Title III, Title IV Subpart 1 & 2; Title V, Subpart 1 & 2; and Title IX, McKinney-Vento Homeless Education.
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Final Obligation Date – 09/30/2025
Final Draw down – 10/31/2025
Final Payment Receive Date – 11/10/2025
Final Expenditure Reports Due – 11/10/2025