The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools Newsletter
  January 29, 2016

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The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools Newsletter
  January 15, 2016

Welcome to our January 15 newsletter! As always, share the latest stories from your city or state with us on Twitter and Facebook. Don't forget to tell your friends and colleagues to sign up for our newsletter here.

On December 10, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that replaces the previous version of the law, No Child Left Behind.

While the bill isn’t all that we had hoped for, it does eliminate some of the most damaging components of the previous law’s high-states testing and accountability regime and gets rid of the School Improvement Grants program, whose school closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the country.

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools Newsletter
  December 11, 2015

Welcome to our December 11 newsletter! Share the latest stories from your city or state with us on Twitter and Facebook. Don't forget to tell your friends and colleagues to sign up for our newsletter here.