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AASA 2012 NCE
FEDERAL EDUCATION UPDATE
Noelle Ellerson
February 2012
Overview
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ESEA
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Budget & Appropriations
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FY12 funding
FY13 budget proposal
Budget Control Act, Supercommittee & Sequestration
Education Technology
Child Nutrition
IDEA
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House & Senate Bills
Waivers
Funding
Rural Education
Advocacy Resources
Climates
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Funding
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Political
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Partisan. Middle ground moderates are gone.
It’s an election year.
Federal
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Continued recession at state and local level
Cessation of ARRA/EduJobs
Actual and anticipated cuts from FY11, FY12 and FY13
Anticipated cuts from Debt Ceiling Commission/Sequestration
Gridlock between House and Senate
State
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State legislatures were heavily impacted by last year’s elections
Strong push on education issues with grassroots implications
ESEA Reauthorization: House
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Student Success Act
Caps Title I funding to inflation
 States must adopt content standards at least in math and
reading, and linked to achievement standards
 Returns control of accountability to states, who have to
develop and implement accountability system
 Increases state set-aside for school improvement to 10%,
and eliminates School Improvement Grants
 Allows all Title I schools to operate whole-school reforms
(does away with 40% threshold)
 Increases local funding control; beyond flexibility, eliminates
all MOE requirements
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ESEA Reauthorization: House
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Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act
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away with HQT and focuses on evaluation systems
with five components (student achievement, multiple
measures, more than two categories, make personnel
decisions based on evaluations, and seek input from
stakeholders)
 Caps use of these funds for class size reduction at 10%
 Consolidates remaining teacher quality programs in to
Teacher/School Leader Flexible Grant
ESEA Reauthorization: House
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Points of Concern
 Maintenance
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of Effort
Cap
 Equitable Participation
 Vouchers
 Charters
ESEA Reauthorization: Senate
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Improvements
Eliminates impossible goal of 100%
 Eliminates AYP and AMOs
 Eliminates 2 percent testing cap
 Changes testing requirement for ELL from one year to two
years
 Permits shifting to measure growth while retaining status
testing
 Permit multiple measures
 Includes computer adaptive assessment
 Shifts control of accountability to the states
 Requires adoption of more accurate assessments
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ESEA Reauthorization: Senate
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Accountability Changes
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continuous improvement towards C/CR
 Maintains disaggregation
 Ranks schools, focus on bottom 5%
 Achievement
Gaps and Persistently Low Achieving
 Achievement based on test scores, graduation rates, state
summative test scores, and % on track for C/CR.
 Turn
Around Models
 Transformation,
Strategic Staffing, Turnaround, Whole
School Reform, Restart, Closure, State Flexibility and Rural
Waiver
ESEA Reauthorization: Senate
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Points of Concern
 Comparability
Changes
 Reliance on One-Time testing
 Treatment of Foster Kids
 Codification of RttT and i3
ESEA Politics
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House version is Republican-only; Senate is
bipartisan, and Sen. Harkin has indicated that he
won’t move his bill until there is bi-partisan House
language
Rep. Miller already on the record as unhappy; How
will other House democrats react?
In case you didn’t know, 2012 is an election year 
ESEA: House & Senate Similarities
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Both snap AYP, AMO, 100% proficiency
Both require annual testing in math/reading in
grades 3-8 and once in high school
Continued data disaggregation
States get big say in intervening in low-performing
schools
Eliminates requirement re: tutoring and school
choice
ESEA: House & Senate Differences
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Both call for higher standards; House makes it illegal for
Secretary to endorse specific efforts (Common Core)
House model lacks any specific turn around models, as well as
any parameters in identifying who would use models
House doesn’t include another percentage of schools for special
attention (Senate includes gap schools, administration includes
those at-risk of 5%)
House bill eliminates HQT requirement
House bill requires SEA/LEAs to develop teacher evaluation
systems (Driven by student performance and having more than 2
levels); Senate only requires it for those applying for competitive
grants
House bill includes significant expansion of funding flexibility
ESEA: Regulatory Relief
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Flexibility being offered in 11 specific areas
States have to adopt all three policy priorities:
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Higher standards
Differentiated accountability system
Teacher/principal evaluation system based on growth
NCLB Waiver Watch: www.cep-dc.org
AASA position: we agree with the areas in which
flexibility is being provided but are opposed to the
conditional nature of the process.
ESEA: Regulatory Relief
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Conditional, quid-pro-quo deal, with states having
to adopt specific policy priorities I exchange for
relief
To date, 39 states have expressed interest in the
waivers
11 states applied for and received waivers in the
first round: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana,
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Tennessee
Two More Rounds: Mid-February, then Sept. 6
Title I Formula Fairness
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www.formulafairness.com
Led by Rural School and Community Trust
Current statute uses two weighting brackets to
determine an LEA’s Title I allocation
Unintended consequence is that some larger, lesspoor schools can end up receiving more Title I
dollars per-child than smaller, poorer districts
Title I Formula Fairness
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All Children are Equal (ACE) Act (HR 2485) provides
legislative fix
Turns down the volume on number weighting to ensure that
Title I dollars are distributed to concentrations of poverty
11 original co-sponsors: Representatives Glenn Thompson (RPA), Ruben Hinojosa (D – TX), G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), Louise
Slaughter (D-NY), Dan Boren (D-OK), Mike Ross (D-AR), Tom
Petri (R-WI), Lou Barletta (R-PA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Todd
Platts (R-PA), and Richard Hanna (R-NY).
Also joined by Reps. Roby (R-AL), Hartzler (R-MO), and
Crawford (R-AR)
Urge your representative to sign on!
FY12 Appropriations
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Budget Control Act/Joint Deficit Commission
Super Committee Roster:
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Tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years
Failed to announce plan by Thanksgiving and take vote by Christmas
Includes required vote on Balanced Budget Amendment
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Senate: Murray (WA), Baucus (MT), Kerry (MA), Kyl (AZ), Portman (OH), and Toomey (PA)
House: Hensarling (TX), Becerra (CA), Camp (MI), Clyburn (SC), Upton (MI), and VanHollen
(MD)
Senate and House failed to pass BBA
Sequestration triggered 1/1/12
Cuts go in to effect 1/1/13
CBO estimates sequestration will be a 7.8% across-the-board cut
Estimated Education Impact:
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Title I: $1.1 billion
IDEA: 978 million
Perkins: $136 million
Head Start: $590 million
FY12 Appropriations
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FY12 appropriations completed in fasted timeframe
in 7 years, though still 11 weeks behind
Utilized a handful of short-term CRs before
adopting a megabus and an omnibus to fund
government for the duration of FY12
Final LHHS bill included 0.189% across-the-board
cut (to be compliant with Budget Control Act)
FY12 Appropriations
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Head Start: additional $424 million
Title I: additional $60 million
IDEA: additional $100 million
RTTT funded at $550 million
School Improvement Grant: $534.6 m
Literacy: $160 million (restoration from FY11)
Impact Aid: $1.294 billion
Title II set aside in the competitive grant for professional development increases from 1%
to 1.5%
Investing in Innovation: $149.7 million
REAP: $180 million
Teacher Incentive Fund: $300 million
Promise Neighborhood: $60 million
ESEA Title III: $733.5
Career/Tech: $1.739 billion
FY13 Budget Proposal
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USED only non-defense funding increase -about
$1.7 billion
$30 billion to retain, hire teachers and first
responders
$30 billion to modernize at least 35,000 schools
FY13 Budget Proposal
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Level funds Title I and IDEA
Consolidates 38 programs down to 11
$850 million for RTT
$150 million for i3
$2.5 billion for teacher quality formula grants
$400 million for Teachers/Leaders Innovation Fund
NEW $5 billion grant program to reform the
teaching profession
IDEA Full Funding
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AASA’s #1 legislative priority
Senator Harkin has introduced the IDEA Full Funding Act
(S 1403). We are waiting for the House partner bill.
Rep. Polis has a IDEA funding bill, but our focus is on the
Harkin version
Urge your Senator to sign on the S 1403, and talk with
your entire Congressional delegation about the funding
pressures of IDEA and the importance of protecting and
increasing IDEA funding in FY12 and debt ceiling
conversations.
Education Technology: E-Rate
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FCC program that provides discounts to help schools
and libraries afford telecommunications services
Anti-Deficiency Act (S 297)
Raise the spending cap
Waiting for final action by the FCC on a host of
rules/notices:
 Gift rule
 CIPA
 Roll-over funds
Education Technology: Ed Tech
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Title II Part D, Enhancing Education Through Technology,
E2T2
Zero-funded by the administration, eliminated by the
House in its ESEA eliminations bill
Not included in Senate Base Bill or House bill
Sen. Bingaman introduced the ATTAIN Act (S 1178),
which allows for EETT-type program ($300 m trigger);
Offered as amendment in Senate ESEA mark up.
Rep. Roybal-Allard introduced the House companion of
ATTAN (HR 3614)
Child Nutrition
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NSLP/SBP reauthorized last December
AASA, NSBA and Council opposed unfunded mandates within the law
 Increased reimbursement, higher nutrition standards
 Set paid lunch price
 Set training and certification requirements
 Review indirect cost process
Continue to work on the regulations, which affirm our suspicions
Hullabaloo in the FY12 agriculture appropriations bill related to language
that limits the use of FY12 funds for implementing new language
Office of Rural Education Policy Act
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Bill introduced in May; Goal: Adding it to ESEA
Would establish an Office inside the Dept of Ed
headed by a Director who would
Advise the Secretary on the needs of rural schools and
ensure that all regulations issued by the Department of
Education explicitly consideration the impact that the
regulations will have on rural schools and communities
 maintain a clearinghouse on best practices and research for
rural schools, produce an annual report to Congress,
coordinate efforts throughout federal agencies related to
rural schools
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Get—and Stay!—Involved!
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Weigh in early, weigh in often
These decisions are made whether or not you weigh
in.
15 minutes per month is all it takes.
Get to know your Senator/Representative, and
perhaps more importantly, their education staffer.
Invite the Representative/Senator and staffer to
your ESA. Anecdotes and stories have a lot of
sticking power with this Congress. Let the face of
your ESA be the one that sticks in their mind!
AASA Advocacy Resources
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AASA Website: www.aasa.org
AASA Blog: www.aasa.org/aasablog.aspx
AASA Twitter: @Noellerson
AASA Legislative Corps: Weekly Newsletter
Advocacy Network: Monthly Update
Questions?
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Bruce Hunter ([email protected])
Noelle Ellerson ([email protected])
Sasha Pudelski ([email protected])