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Why Every Student Succeeds Act still leaves most vulnerable kids behind

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For a decade, congressional attempts to revise the embattled 2001 No Child Left Behind Act – a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) – hit a brick wall.

On December 10 2015, that changed. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed by the House...

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