In all 14 of these states, these indicators are concentrated at the high school level, which likely reflects states’ emphasis on measuring college and career readiness — a topic we’ll explore in more detail below. This report from Advance CTE and Education Strategy Group examines state plans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to see how states are taking advantage of key opportunities to support career readiness. Despite the American promise of equal educational opportunity for all students, persistent achievement gaps among more and less advantaged groups of students remain, along with the opportunity gaps that create disparate outcomes. The newest reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), addresses some elements of this readiness priority, but does not require a comprehensive approach within state accountability systems. On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), reauthorizing the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replacing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the 2001 reauthorization of ESEA. For the first time, the reauthorization of the nation’s defining elementary and secondary education law explicitly supports a preschool to college- and career-readiness vision for America’s students. This brief will also introduce some of the key federal requirements and opportunities under this policy framework for supporting state CCR visions, with a focus on provisions under Titles I, II, and IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by ESSA. More than 40 states are considering postsecondary and career readiness in school performance in some way in their ESSA plans, Reyna said. But they take different paths to including it. We focus on these high-school specific measures for two reasons. First, ESSA placed increased focus on high school graduation and measures of college and career readiness. ESSA required that all schools with graduation rates below 67% be identified as CSI schools. This brief specifies which states are expanding access to a college- and career-ready curriculum in their ESSA plans and describes how some states intend to measure and use information from this indicator to create more equitable and inclusive learning environments for all students.