Example: California’s ESSA accountability dashboard may show the number of suspensions are dropping in a school or district, she said, but the data don’t necessarily show whether educators ...

For example, ESSA requires states to include a broader set of factors in school accountability systems rather than just test scores; provides funding for states and districts to audit and ...

ESSA doesn’t mandate annual updates for key data points—states need only revise the lowest-performing 5 percent of Title I schools in the state only once every three years, for example.