Last week, President Obama signed the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (“ESSA” or the “Act”) into law. The Act reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (“ESEA”). A bipartisan compromise bill, ESSA supersedes the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (“NCLB”). ESSA effectively replaces NCLB’s federal-centric, one-size-fits-all model of K-12 education reform and