Does ESSA Actually Require 95% Participation on State Assessments? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

While the ESSA unquestionably requires the states to administer yearly assessments in mathematics and reading, it does not actually require 95% student participation on those tests. Instead, as currently written, it requires 95% student participation on some other, completely different set of nonexistent assessments. Congress might want to consider hiring a few more proofreaders.

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