Blended Learning, Professional Development Make Gains in ESEA Overhaul

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Blended Learning, Professional Development Make Gains in ESEA Overhaul

While emphasizing that the bill wasn't the one they "would have written," 37 education and civil rights groups, including the Alliance for Excellent Education, issued a joint statement calling ESSA "an improvement" over the version of legislation that has been circulating for nearly a year. "There are provisions in the proposed legislation that we believe will help remedy deep-seated disparities in our nation's schools," the statement noted.