As it does every year, Education Week has published its most recent Quality Counts report on states’ K-12 education policies and outcomes. This year’s report includes updated data for three of the six measures: school finance, transitions and alignment, and chance for success. The results from these measures highlight some of the key differences in state education reforms, especially as efforts to enact more sweeping changes on the federal level through reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act have stalled. As states continue to enact their own changes to K-12 systems, the Quality Counts data are likely to become more important in gauging the success and progress of these individual state reforms until Congress takes up the issue on a federal level.
