The has released its draft of new education policies to align with the federal .
It’s now open to public input.
A preview of this draft was released last week, and the says there aren’t any big changes…
“You’re seeing the nuts and bolts of the pieces we put out a week ago,” he said.
The state says it will reexamine the testing system but won’t make any changes to it – and in fact can’t without state lawmakers’ approval.
The state also and a less than 5% chronic absenteeism rate in the next ten years. And ODE will clarify the state report card system and make it more user friendly.
is open through March 6, and the final plan must be submitted to the federal government by April.