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FEDERAL EDUCATION
POLICY UPDATE
Noelle Ellerson
MAISA Annual Summer Conference
June 2013
WHAT IS GOING ON?
Regulations
 Authorizations and Reauthorizations
 Budget/Appropriations
 Hearings/Mark Ups
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OVERVIEW
ESEA: Reauthorization & Waivers
 Federal Funding: Sequestration, Appropriations,
Fiscal Cliff & Debt Ceiling
 Rural Education: REAP
 Education Technology: E-Rate & ATTAIN
 School Nutrition
 Other
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ESEA: REAUTHORIZATIONS & WAIVERS
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Reauthorization: It’s a matter of willingness vs.
capacity (aka politics)
Administration that dislikes both House and
Senate bill
Reality: 38 states in some phase of waiver
implementation
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Onus is on administration and Congress to make
sure reauthorization doesn’t collide with waivers
The bills are……here. And reported out of
committee!
ESEA REAUTHORIZATION: HOUSE BILL
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Eliminate AYP, AMO,
SES, and 100% proficiency
Return control of
assessments and
accountability to the states
Maintains math and ELA
testing requirements; adds
science
Continues data
disaggregation
Reauthorizes REAP
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Promotes growth models
and multiple measures
Includes computer
adaptive assessment
Adjusts 1 and 2 percent
caps
Requires 4 year adjusted
cohort graduation rate and
allow states to calculate 5,
6 and 7 year rates
ESEA REAUTHORIZATION: SENATE BILL
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More or less eliminates AYP,
AMO, SES, and 100%
proficiency
SAG (Sufficient Academic
Growth), performance targets
and student achievement
levels
Prescriptive in intervention
(who and how)
Both return control of
assessments and
accountability to the states
Has math, ELA and science
testing requirements
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Maintains data
disaggregation
Reauthorizes REAP
Promotes growth models and
multiple measures
Includes computer adaptive
assessment
Adjusts 1 and 2 percent caps
Requires 4 year adjusted
cohort graduation rate
Includes Ed Tech program
Expanded school climate
requirements (SNDA)
ESEA REAUTHORIZATION: THINGS TO LOOK FOR
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Standards, Accountability and Assessment
School Improvement/Turn Around
Highly Qualified Teachers
Funding Portability/School Choice
Maintenance of Effort
Comparability
Teacher Evaluation
Funding Flexibility
Class Size Reduction
Ed Tech
RttT and i3
ESEA: REAUTHORIZATIONS & WAIVERS
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Waivers
Administration issued waivers to 35 states
 Point of frustration on Capitol Hill
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Direct to District Waivers?
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CA consortium
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“trial run” idea
Texas group
Role of waivers in removing pressure for
Congress to act
TITLE I AND IDEA PORTABILITY
Heard on the Romney campaign trail, reiterated
by Representative Eric Cantor
 Idea that these funds would follow the child to
the school they attend.
 Apart from usual opposition to vouchers, there
are other implications:
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Runs against original congressional intent of Title I
 Funds aimed at concentrations of students
 Technicalities of how this would work; and, what
would happen when (inevitably) students come back?
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TEACHER EVAL & ASSESSMENT WAIVERS
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Earlier this week, USED announced flexibility
states in two specific areas:
Delayed implementation for using student growth on
state tests as a factor in staffing decisions
 Frozen accountability for states/locals implementing
field tests of online assessments
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TITLE I 15% CARRYOVER WAIVERS
In April, the Dept released a letter to Chief State
School Officers indicating the opportunity to
purse waivers related to the 15% carryover of
Title I funds
 USED will allow states to apply for a blanket
waiver so they can grant LEAs flexibility to
carryover more than 15% of their FY12 Title I
funds, in recognition of the impact of
sequestration.
 Specifically, it allows a waiver to be granted more
than once every three years, which is the current
statutory limit.
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FUNDING
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Federal Appropriations
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FY13 started Oct 1, 2012
Finally wrapped at the end of March
Level funds education progams
Includes across the board cut of 0.2 percent
Does NOT repeal sequestration, meaning cut to all
federal K12 programs will be 5.23%
Separate from sequester
FY14 process has started; see later slides!
US MAP: FEDERAL REVENUE
IN
LOCAL EDU BUDGETS
FUNDING: FY14
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House and Senate each passed budget
resolutions.
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House
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Drastically different; we are likely on course for another
CR
Maintains sequestration
Funding levels for education are, at best, slightly worse
than sequestration
Significant reliance on discretionary spending cuts
Senate
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Resolves sequestration, though there would still be cuts
to discretionary spending
Maintains investment in education
Includes$20 million for school infrastructure
FY14: PRESIDENT’S REQUEST
Dead on arrival (or, even more so than usual!)
 Once again highlights education as a funding
priority
 Once again pushes all new dollars in to
competitive programs
 $1.2 billion in new funding goes to competition.
Level funds Title I and IDEA, along with almost
all other programs.
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FY14 PRESIDENT’S BUDGET REQUEST
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New money in:
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STEM
School Safety
i3 and RttT
Charter Schools,
Magnet Schools and
High School redesign
Promise
Neighborhoods
21st Century
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Questionable
assumptions
Resolves sequester
 ESEA reauthorization
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NO funding for
education technology
 Impact Aid CUT $66
million
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RURAL EDUCATION
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REAP
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Included in base bills with all of AASA’s priorities
Adjust the sliding scale
 Locale Code
 Eligibility for both programs
 Switch poverty indicator to F/RLP
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Use REAP to move any federal dollars identified for
rural-only competition/set aside
Title I Number Weighting
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Concentration vs. Count
Title I Funding: Hidden Shifts Within the Formula
$16,000,000
$14,000,000
$12,000,000
$10,000,000
Basic
Concentration
$8,000,000
Targeted
EFIG
Title I Total
$6,000,000
$4,000,000
$2,000,000
$0
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Title I Funding: Hidden Shifts Within the Formula
$8,000,000
$7,000,000
$6,000,000
$5,000,000
Basic
Concentration
$4,000,000
Targeted
EFIG
$3,000,000
$2,000,000
$1,000,000
$0
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
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E-Rate
Anti-Deficiency Act
 Raise the cap
 Reform the program: discount matrix? Eligible
services?
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Education Technology
ATTAIN Act
 Miller Bills
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OTHER
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School Nutrition
Vouchers/Charters
Epinephrine Pens
Early Education
Perkins/Career Tech
IDEA Full Funding
And more:
Seclusion/Restraint
 IDEA and Due Process
 Bullying
 School Safety
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CONTACT YOUR ADVOCACY TEAM
Noelle Ellerson
[email protected]
@Noellerson
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