As the chief authorities in the supervision and administration of elementary and middle-level schools, principals' voices and perspectives are critical to the ongoing discussion about education policy that is taking place at the federal level. NAESP's Federal Relations department provides NAESP members with a collective voice on Capitol Hill and strives to ensure that members of Congress and the Department of Education consider the needs and perspectives of all principals.
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Read NAESP's latest Federal Update: The Federal Update summarizes major developments regarding education laws and policies and describes NAESP's positions on these developments.
As Congress prepares to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), NAESP is pushing for the inclusion of two policy proposals:
- Investing in Early Childhood Development: Research has proven that success in K-12 education starts before students enter the classroom, and ESEA reauthorization must include standards that provide guidance to principals about developing effective pre-kindergarten through grade three alignment.
- High-Quality Mentoring Programs for Principals: Mentoring programs are critical to the development of strong, effective principals, and ESEA reauthorization must include new policies that support high quality leadership mentoring programs and sufficiently instill standards of performance in the principalship.