Policy points are what matter in ESSA Plans
Unique opportunities
All state school library communities should use this ESSA planning process to recommend a federal/state/local funding formula that encourages their SEAs to leverage programs such as Innovative Approaches to Literacy and to make specific recommendations based on other title funding (such as a Block Grant). Some states have specific line items in the state budget or SEA funding formula for school library programs. If yours does, now is the time to recommend a change you want. Another recommendation that is appearing from several library task forces is for the SEA to hire a part-time or full-time library consultant using Title IV, Part A funds. A lack of an SEA-based library consultant means that bundling federal grants and librarian professional development programs is hard to do. This recommendation can be made as a component of the "multi-tiered systems of support" that ESSA requires SEAs to produce in the plans.The bottom line
Right now, you need to anticipate the release of your individual state draft ESSA plans and to ready your school library stakeholders to engage with that draft. That engagement needs to be within a framework that each state DOE lays out. Some states are waiting until final guidance is issued by the U.S. Department of Education in December before issuing their draft ESSA plan; Others, such as Illinois, Louisiana, and North Carolina, have already issued theirs. As soon as your state’s is released, comment on it. Your SEA is trying to find solutions to problems in this new ESSA environment. If you don't bring the librarian perspective to the next version of the draft, no one else will. Above all, remember:RESOURCES AND EXAMPLES
Alaska Association of School Librarians (AkASL) Letter from AkASL to AK DEED ESSA coordinator and commissioner of education
Florida Association for Media in Education Letter to state DOE
Georgia Library Media Association Listening tour schedule Listening tour policy points
Idaho Library Association ESSA task force page
Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) Letter to Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) asking to be recognized as stakeholder organization Policy positions for state ESSA Accountability Work Group Listening Tour talking points and schedule ISLMA policy response to ISBE ESSA Draft #1
Iowa Association of School Librarians Listening tour schedule
Maryland Association of School Librarians ESSA comments
New Hampshire School Library Association Letter to the state education commissioner
New Jersey Library Association The programs report is pretty wicked.
Ohio Educational Library Media Association State stakeholder survey approach with over 100 members posting policy points
Tennessee Association of School Librarians Talking points for the state DOE survey
BACKGROUND FROM LIBRARY GROUPS:
AASL policy docs Colorado State Library ESSA Summary EveryLibrary triage document EveryLibrary calendar of deadlines and progress New York Library Association Texas State Library and Archives Overview
STATE DRAFT ESSA PLANS:
Illinois Louisiana North Carolina New York Library Association
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