To ensure that all children receive a high-quality education, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to report on equity gaps and work to close them.

The law states that:

“Each State plan shall describe how low-income and minority children enrolled in schools assisted under this part are not served at disproportionate rates by ineffective, out-of-field, or inexperienced teachers and the measures the State educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such description...” ESSA §1111(g).

Each local educational agency plan shall describe:

“How the local educational agency will identify and address, as required under State plans as described in section 1111(g)(1)(B), any disparities that result in low-income students and minority students being taught at higher rates than other students by ineffective, inexperienced, or out-of-field teachers” ESSA § 1112(b)(2).

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