Title II, ESSA is commonly referred to as which act?

• A. No Child Left Behind Act
• B. Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• C. Every Student Succeeds Act
• D. Higher Education Act

Answer: (C)

Understanding federal education legislation helps you see why this name is used today. Title II is part of the reauthorization that modernized federal K-12 policy, and the act that governs this policy is the Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced the No Child Left Behind Act and continued the framework of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Because ESSA is the current law, and Title II falls under its provisions focusing on teacher quality and professional development, that is the name most commonly used to refer to this set of laws. The other options map to older or separate laws: No Child Left Behind Act was the previous version that ESSA replaced; Elementary and Secondary Education Act is the foundational law ESSA reauthorized; Higher Education Act deals with postsecondary education and is not the K-12 framework in question.