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Making Sense of the Federal
Stimulus Package
Andrea Ball, Deputy Superintendent
Marcela Obregon Enriquez, Education Administrator I
November 2009
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Jack O’Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Federal Stimulus
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Education related programs enacted February 2009
JACK O’CONNELL
State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
• $100 billion nationwide for Prekindergarten through
grade twelve and post secondary education
• Includes:
Existing Pre-K and K-12 programs
State Fiscal Stabilization (new program)
2 school facilities tax credit programs: Qualified
Zone Academy bonds (existing) and Qualified
School Construction Bonds (new program)
• An estimated $7 billion in education funding for
California
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA)
Program
JACK O’CONNELL
State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
California
Total
Grantees
State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (Ed)
$3,243B
LEAs
IDEA (Part B)
$1,268B
SELPAs
Title I
$1,080B
LEAs
School Improvement Grant
$352M
LEAs
Enhancing Education Through Technology
(EETT)
$72M
Competitive and formula to LEAs
$14M
LEAs
Child Development Block Grant
$220M
Direct Service Providers & Service
Entities
Child Nutrition Program
$13M
Competitive to School Food
Authorities
McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act
Race to the Top (competitive)
$4.35B
Nationally
States
Investing in Innovation (competitive)
$650M
Nationally
LEAs, Charter Schools, nonprofit
organizations working in collaboration
with LEAs or Consortiums
State Longitudinal Data Systems
(competitive)
$250M
Nationally
States
Teacher Incentive Grant (competitive)
$200M
Nationally
Districts, states, and nonprofits
Guiding Principles
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
Race To The Top
$4.35 billion competitive grants to states who focus on a
comprehensive and ambitious plan to address the four
assurances.
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
Common Core:
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Adopting internationally benchmarked standards and
assessments that prepare students for success in college and the
workplace;
Great Teachers and Leaders:
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Recruiting, developing, retaining, and rewarding effective teachers
and principals;
Robust Data System:
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Building data systems that measure student success and inform
teachers and principals how they can improve their practices; and
Turning around our lowest-performing schools:
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Aggressive intervention is required in chronically low-performing
schools.
State to Partner
with School Districts
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
• School districts to partner with the state
in developing RTTT application.
• State/districts to develop holistic plans
that address each of the four reform
areas.
• State/districts to think creatively and
broadly view RTTT funding as seed
money to institute major program
change.
Race To The Top
Proposed Eligibility Requirements
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
Two Eligibility Requirements:
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State must be approved for funding under the State Fiscal
Stabilization Fund (Phase I and Phase II) by December 31,
2009. This entails a state plan to collect and report data
related to four education reform areas.
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State cannot have statutory or regulatory barriers to linking
data about student growth and achievement to teachers for
the purposes of evaluation.
One Absolute Priority:
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States must have a coherent and comprehensive plan for
addressing four reform areas. States earn points based upon
their ability to meet 19 selection criteria.
Race To The Top
Structure of Selection Criteria
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
State Reform Conditions Criteria
• Demonstrate will and capacity to improve
education systems.
• Document the existing legal and policy
conditions that are conductive to innovation
and reform.
Reform Plan Criteria
• Describe comprehensive strategies (for the
state and participating LEAs) that allow for
continuous improvement of student outcomes.
Anticipated R2T Application and Award Timeline
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of Public Instruction
Jun-Aug
2009
Sep-Nov
2009
Dec-Feb
2009-10
Mar-May
2010
Jun-Aug
2010
Sep-Nov
2010
Draft guidelines released (Jul 24)
End of draft comment period (Aug 28)
Final guidelines released (Late Fall 2009)
Phase 1 applications due (late Winter 2009)
Phase 1 awards (first half 2010)
Phase 2 applications due (spring 2010)
Source: The New Teacher Project
http://www.tntp.org/
Phase 2
awards
(Sep 2010)
California’s Race to the Top Process
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
• Outreach efforts to inform and obtain
stakeholder input include:
– Webinars and Webdialogues
– In-person meetings in three regions to
share information and solicit feedback:
• November 2, 3, & 4
– See www.caracetothetop.org for more
information and schedule of events
Legislative Action
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
• Special Session called by the Governor.
• Hearings already held by Senate and
more scheduled- Sacramento, San
Diego, Santa Clara
• Hearings held by Assembly and 2 more
scheduled through December –
Sacramento and Los Angeles
Innovation Fund “i3” Grants
$650 Million Nationally
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Who’s eligible
School districts, consortia of schools, and certain
nonprofits.
Goals for grants
Expand proven education models, scale up
capacity of high-impact programs and
organizations, validate promising evidencesupported models, create new education reform
breakthroughs.
Grants fall into three
categories.
•Up to $5M for “pure innovation” for “promising
ideas”;
•Up to $30M for “strategic investment” for programs
that “need to build a research base or
organizational capacity to succeed at a larger
scale”;
•Up to $50M for “grow what works” to expand
“proven programs.”
Timeline
Two rounds of grants will be awarded, with
application deadlines in late 2009 and spring 2010.
Grants must be awarded by September 2010 (may
consolidate into 1 round).
State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
Quarterly Reporting
Requirements
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
• Unprecedented levels of transparency and
accountability.
• Nationwide data reporting and posting on expenditures,
jobs saved and retained.
• CDE developed a Web-based data reporting system.
• The first report due to federal government on 10-102009 and will cover the period from the grant award
date through 9-30-09.
• Results will be available at:
State:
http://www.recovery.ca.gov/
Federal:
http://www.recovery.gov/
ARRA Reporting Information
as of October 13, 2009
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of Public Instruction
• About 28,000 education jobs in grades PreK-12
were saved by ARRA. The figure was derived from
the first quarterly reports submitted to the California
Department of Education (CDE) by school districts
and other subrecipients of ARRA funds.
• Ninety-nine percent of the 1,647 entities receiving
ARRA grants administered by CDE submitted
reports in the first quarterly reporting cycle.
• 3,538 grants totaling $4.8 billion in ARRA funding
have been allocated to California subrecipients. Of
that amount, $3.2 billion has been disbursed by
CDE to the subrecipients.
ARRA Resources
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State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
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ARRA General Information: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ar/
ARRA funding and reporting requirements:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ar/rr/
General Programs:
http://ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/programs.html
Recovery.gov is the U.S. government’s official website providing
easy access to data related to Recovery Act spending and allows
for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse.
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx and
http://ed.gov/index.jhtml