Education Commission of the States

States are under pressure to strengthen literacy and numeracy and close persistent opportunity gaps during ongoing educator workforce instability. Recent evidence from Texas’ Model Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Work® programs – in which educators work collaboratively to achieve be...

Many statewide education initiatives stop at vision documents. Recently, the State of Maine set out to go further. A team at the Maine Department of Education, “...

The passage of the H.R. 1, called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, by Congress in July 2025 included the first federal school choice program known as the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program. T...

As the school year ends in communities across the U.S., it’s time for students transitioning out of their K-12 journeys to decide on their next steps. Increasingly, many students will choose to attend schools that they hadn’t even applied to through a process called direct admissions, sometimes referred to as “automa...

Over the past decade, Puerto Rico’s education ...