Transcript ESEA Reauthoruzation

Michelle Doyle
Equitable Services Institute 2014
This Congress has not
accomplished much
 Evidence of the gridlock in DC
 44 substantive laws enacted this
year
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◦ Compared to average of 70 between
1999 and 2012
Appropriation of funds
 Passage of ESEA in the House
 Bills for ESEA reauthorization
introduced in the Senate
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 Extension of Waivers
 New guidance on the use of federal
funds of technology
 Guidance on new method of counting
students for Title I
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The sequester is a group of cuts to federal spending set
to take effect March 1, barring further congressional
action.
The sequester was originally passed as part of the
Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), better known as the
debt ceiling compromise.
It was intended to serve as incentive for the Joint Select
Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka the
“Supercommittee”) to come to a deal to cut $1.5 trillion
over 10 years. If the committee had done so, and
Congress had passed it by Dec. 23, 2011, then the
sequester would have been averted.
Across-the-board cut of 5.1% for
Education Department programs
 Cuts in each LEAs differed:
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◦ Increase in poverty = application of
formula yields less than 5.1% cut
◦ Decrease in poverty = application of
formula yields more than 5.1% cut
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Title IA Subgrants to Local
Educational Agencies:
◦ FY 2013
$13,760,219
◦ FY 2014
$14,384,802
◦ Percentage change:
+ 4.539%
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This change in appropriations for
the 2014-15 school year nearly
restores all of the funds that were
lost during the 2013-14 school
year due to sequestration.
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Basic grants
◦ FY 2013
$6,232,639
◦ FY 2014
$6,459,401
◦ Percentage change:
+ 3.638%
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Concentration grants:
◦ FY 2013
$1,293,919
◦ FY 2014
$1,362,301
◦ Percentage change:
+ 5.285%
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Targeted grants:
◦ FY 2013
$3,116,831
◦ FY 2014
$3,281,550
◦ Percentage change:
+ 5.285%
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Education finance grants:
◦ FY 2013
$3,116,831
◦ FY 2014
$3,281,550
◦ Percentage change:
+ 5.285%
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Title IIA
◦ FY 2013
$2,337,830
◦ FY 2014
$2,349,830
◦ Percentage change:
+ .513%
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Title III
◦ FY 2013
$693,848
◦ FY 2014
$732,400
◦ Percentage change:
+ 4.259%
First signed into law January 2002
for 5 years
 Renewed each year without change
 Several attempts at passage
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◦ Miller proposal
◦ Kline bill (passed House)
◦ Harkin bill (passed out of Committtee
twice)
◦ Alexander bill
Enhanced consultation language, goal
to reach agreement, added pooling
and how $$ calculated, “substantially
failed” added to bypass and complaint
 Calculate private school funding on
state level—inform simultaneously;
ombudsman
 Sign off for all programs
 Counseling and mentoring firmed up
in Title I
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Title I funds determined prior to any
set asides
◦ Currently 20% or more set aside for public
school only purposes
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Title IIA funds determined prior to
other uses by LEA
◦ Currently LEA chooses to spend IIA funds
on class size reduction, teacher
recruitment/retention, and professional
development
Passed the Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions
Committee (HELP)
 Did not include any changes to the
private school sections
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Minority alternative
 Not considered by the Committee
 Includes “fix” for Title I
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◦ Funding for private school program
determined prior to any set asides by
the LEA
State of the Union: If Congress
can’t get it done, Administration
will use Executive Orders
 Administration has already been
making changes
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◦ Waivers
◦ Technology
◦ Community Eligibility Option
$14.4 billion for Title I Collegeand Career-Ready Students;
 $11.6 billion for Special Education
Grants to States
 $723 million for English Learner
Education,
 $506 million School Turnaround
Grants (STG) program
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$170 million in new funding for a comprehensive STEM Innovation
proposal to transform teaching and learning in STEM education.
$110 million for STEM Innovation Networks to provide competitive
awards to LEAs in partnership with IHEs, nonprofit organizations,
other public agencies, and businesses to transform STEM teaching
and learning by accelerating the adoption of practices in P-12
education that help increase the number of students who seek out
and are effectively prepared for postsecondary education and careers
in STEM fields.
$40 million for STEM Teacher Pathways in support of the President’s
goal of developing 100,000 new, effective STEM teachers through
competitive grants for recruiting, preparing, placing, and supporting
talented recent college graduates and mid-career professionals in
the STEM fields in high-need schools.
$20 million to support the activities of a National STEM Master
Teacher Corps, which would identify, refine, and share models to
help America’s best and brightest math and science teachers make
the transition from excellent teachers to school and community
leaders and advocates for STEM education.
$10 million for a new Non-Cognitive Skills initiative that would
provide competitive grants to district and researcher partnerships to
develop and test interventions to improve students’ non-cognitive
skills in the middle grades.
Began with 2012-13 school year
for two years
 45 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the Bureau of
Indian Education submitted
requests for ESEA flexibility
 42 States, the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico are approved for
ESEA flexibility
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Adequate Yearly Progress
 Provision of SES
 Provision of public school choice
transportation
 Schools and Districts in Need of
Improvement
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Common Core or other acceptable
standards
 Assessments tied to standards
 Priority and focus schools
 Reward schools
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This one-year extension will allow
SEAs and ED to gather additional
information on successes and
challenges in the implementation of
reforms committed to under ESEA
flexibility, in order to improve
current systems and better support
students and teachers.
Must amend application to address
monitoring findings
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Difficult to get transparency
No longer (unless in waiver app)
have SES, public school choice,
SINI, DINI = less set asides
 Add common core
 Add priority and focus schools =
set asides (in some cases)
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High-speed internet to the classroom,
 Affordable mobile learning devices,
 High-quality learning content, and
 Support for teachers to move to digital
learning
Within five years.
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Many of the terms we use today to describe
technology-enhanced learning did not exist
when laws such ESEA and IDEA were passed
(2001 and 2004)
ED: Need to clarify opportunities to use
federal grant funds to support digital
learning
http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/file
s/2013/06/Federal-Funds-Tech-DC-.pdf
Support teachers using digital learning
tools (IIA and IA)
 Provide online professional
development (IIA)
 Adopt digital competency-based
professional development (IIA and IA)
 Digital resources for Common Core (IIA)
 Digital educational resources for
English Language Learners and
students with disabilities (III and IDEA)
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Use technology to communicate with
parents (IA, III, IDEA)
 Connect teachers and STEM
professionals with technology (IIA and
IIB)
 Participate in English Learner focused
Communities of Practice (III)
 Provide students with mobile learning
devices (IA)
 Provide assistive technology (IDEA)
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Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
Goal to increase meals served
Direct certification
◦ SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, etc.
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Schools with 40% or more directly certified
students are eligible
1.6 times # of directly certified = new lunch
count
Serve free meals to all
All states eligible 2014-15
www2.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/13
-0381guidance.doc
 Public and private schools eligible for
using CEO
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◦ Unlikely many private schools will use the
option
 Need 40% directly certified
 Need to participate in the lunch program
 Need to provide free lunches to those not
counted for reimbursement
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CEO could lead to higher public school
count
◦ That’s the goal of the program!
Title I funding does not increase due
to use of CEO
 Proportional share for private school
program will be less if public school
count is higher
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