Transcript Creating a Shared Vision: 21st Century Learning for Students with Limited English proficiency Title III Conference May 5, 2009

Creating a Shared Vision:
21st Century Learning
for Students with
Limited English proficiency
Title III Conference
May 5, 2009
Overview
• NCLB Title I and Title III
Commonalities
• USDOE Guidance on Supplement
versus Supplant
• Programmatic Collaboration
What Are The Commonalities
of Titles I and III?
A. They meet in the middle…
Title II
B. Together they add up to …
Title IV
C. They both address Limited
English Proficient (LEP)
Student Achievement
What Are The Commonalities
of Titles I and III?
Title Title
I
III
C. They both address LEP
Student Achievement
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Program
Fact
Title I, Part A
Title III, Part A
Purpose
Improve the teaching and
learning of academically atrisk children so they can
acquire the knowledge and
skills needed to meet the
State’s
academic
achievement standards.
Help ensure that limited
English proficient (LEP)
children attain English
language proficiency and
acquire the knowledge and
skills needed to meet the
State’s
academic
achievement standards.
FY 2008 (SY
appropriation*
2008-09) 13.9 billion
646 million
Approximate number of LEP 3,000,000
students served in SY 200607**
4,300,000
Approximate number of 14,000
LEAs
receiving
funds
annually**
4,300
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Program
Requirement
Title I, Part A
Title III, Part A
English Language Proficiency
Description: The SEA must
Description: SEAs
Assessment
ensure that LEAs provide for an
must
provide
for
an
Title I, Part A
annual assessment of English
annual assessment of language proficiency of all LEP
Section 1111(b)(7) of ESEA
Title III, Part A
students in the State in grades
English language
Section 3113(b)(3)(D) and 3121
K-12 in the domains of
proficiency
of
all
LEP
(d)(1) of ESEA
reading, writing, listening,
students in the State speaking, and comprehension.
Title III also requires LEAs and
in grades K-12 in the
SEAs to report student
domains of reading,
progress in English
writing, listening, and comprehension. Although
Title III requires SEAs and LEAs
speaking.
to be able to report a separate
score for the domain of
comprehension, a separate
assessment instrument is not
required for Title I and Title III.
Comprehension can be
demonstrated through reading
and listening.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Program
Requirement
Title I, Part A
Title III, Part A
Professional Development
Description:
Description:
Title I, Part A
 All LEAs receiving Title III,

All
LEAs
receiving
Sections 1114 and 1115 of
Part A funds must provide
Title I, Part A must
ESEA
professional development.
Title III, Part A
 The professional
ensure that
Section 3111 and 3115 of ESEA
development must be for
professional
classroom teachers,
development is
administrators, and others
who work with LEP
provided in SWP
students.
and TAS.
 In TAS the
professional
development must
be for classroom
teachers,
administrators, and
others who work
with Title I
students.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Program
Requirement
Title I, Part A
Title III, Part A
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
Description:
Description:
Overview
 Title I, Part A provides for
 LEAs receiving subgrants under
Title I, Part A
substantive parental
the title III State formula grant
Section 1111, 1112, 1116,
involvement, including the
program must implement
and 1118 of ESEA
development of the State and
effective outreach to parents of
Title III, Part A
local plan, evaluating the
LEP children to inform them of
Section 3302
effectiveness of the required
how they can be involved in
LEA parental involvement
their children’s education and
policy, and in implementing
how they can assist their
LEA and school improvement
children to learn English and
provisions to assist children
meet State content and
served by the program reach
academic achievement
proficiency on State
standards.
assessments.
 Examples of parental
 Examples of parental
involvement activities:
involvement activities:
o Assisting parents of LEP
o Assisting parents t help
students to help improve
improve their child’s
their child’s achievement;
achievement;
o Provide literacy training to
o Provide literacy training
parents of LEP students;
to parents when
and
appropriate; and
o Parent outreach to parents
o Parent outreach.
of LEP students.
Requirement
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Program
Title I, Part A
Title III, Part A
Parent Notification
Title I, Part A
Sections 1111, 1112, 1116,
and 1118 of ESEA;
§§200.30 – 200.53 of ED’s
Title I Regulations
Title III, Part A
Sections 3115, 3116, and
3302 of ESEA
Description: the information
Description: Parents must be provided:
parents must be provided
 Information regarding a child’s
includes:
identification as LEP and placement in a
 The annual SEA/LEA report
language instruction educational
card results;
program, including initial English
 Individual student
language proficiency assessment results
assessment;
and program placement for LEP
 Information on their right to
students, as well as other information,
know about the qualification
no later than 30 days after the beginning
of their child’s teachers;
of the schools year;
 Schools/LEAs in the different  For a child who has not been identified
accountability stages;
for participation in a language instruction
 Public school choice and SES;
educational program prior to the
 Building and LEA parent
beginning of the school year, the LEA
involvement policies;
must provide the notification regarding
 The parent compact;
identification and placement with two
weeks of the child being placed in such a
 A notification similar to
program.
that required under
 Separate notification if the LEA is Title III
section 3302 of Title III
funded and did not meet any one of the
for LEAs that use Title I
three Title III AMAOs. This notification
funds to provide LEP
must be provided to parents of children
students with a language
identified for or participating in Title III
instruction educational
programs not later than 30 days after the
programs; and
LEA receives information regarding
Supplement not Supplant
Follow up from
USDOE October 2008
LEP Partnership Meeting
The Context
•The presentation will provide an
overview of the US Department of
Education’s guidance on use of Title
I and Title III funds
•The presentation also addresses
additional questions regarding the
use of Title III funds consistent with
the supplement not supplant
requirement.
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Supplement not Supplant in Brief –
General Principle
In general, the federal supplement not
supplant requirement (for both
Titles I and III) is intended to ensure
that services provided with federal
funds are in addition to, and do not
replace or supplant, services that
students would otherwise receive.
1. Required by law
2. Prior Year Funding
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The First Test of Supplanting:
Required by Law
The Department assumes supplanting
exists if• A local education agency (LEA) uses
Title III funds to provide services that
the LEA is required to make available
under State or local laws, or other
Federal laws.
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The Second Test of Supplanting:
Prior Year
The Department assumes supplanting
exists if –
• An LEA uses federal funds to provide
services that it provided in the prior
year with State, local, or other Federal
funds.
This assumption may be rebutted.
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Any determination about supplanting is
very fact specific, and it is difficult to
provide general guidelines without
examining the details of a situation.
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Supplement not Supplant
Practical Applications –
English Language Proficiency (ELP)
Assessment
Development and Administration
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Use of ESEA Funds to Administer
State ELP Assessments
Title I and Title III funds may not be used to
administer State ELP assessments because:
• Title I does not specifically authorize this
expenditure, which is necessary because the
requirement applies to all LEP students (not
just Title I students).
• Use of Title III funds for this purpose would
violate the supplement not supplant
requirements since the ELP assessment is a
requirement under Title I.
An SEA may use Section 6111 funds to
administer State ELP assessments.
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Use of ESEA Funds to Develop
and Administer ELP
Assessments for Identification
and Placement
• Neither Title I nor Title III funds may
be used to develop or administer ELP
assessments for identification and
placement purposes.
• Section 6111 funds may not be used
for this purpose as they may only be
used to fund assessments required
under Section 1111(b)(7).
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Supplement not Supplant
Considerations at the LEA
And School Levels
4 Guiding Questions for Determining
If Title III Funds Can be Used Without
Violating the Supplant Requirement
1. What is the instructional program/service
provided to all students?
2. What does the LEA do to meet Lau
requirements?
3. What services is the LEA required by other
Federal, State, and local laws or regulations
to provide?
4. Was the program/service previously
provided with State, local, and Federal
funds?
Based on the answers to the above questions, would the proposed funds be used to
provide an instructional program/service that is in addition to or supplemental to an
instructional program/service that would otherwise be provided to LEP students in
the absence of a Title III grant?
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Department Follow-up
on Supplement not Supplant
The Department of Education intends to
monitor this issue beginning with the Title III
grants that will be awarded in July 2009.
October 2008 USDE letter
http://www.ed.gov/programs/sfgp/legislation.
html
Title I fiscal guidance:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/fiscal
guid.doc
Office for Civil Rights, ELL Resources:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/ellres
ources.html
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Programmatic Coordination
How do state Title I and Title III
offices collaborate?
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Strategic Plan
Consolidated Monitoring
Systems of Support
Technical Assistance
LEA Coordination between Title I and III
Current Practices
Areas for Improvement
Title I School Improvement Training
• June 17-18, Waterfront Hotel,
Morgantown
• What do we do, as a professional
learning community, when kids don’t
learn?
• To send a teacher, please email
Amelia Courts
[email protected]
Questions
and
Discussion
Jan Stanley
[email protected]
Amelia Courts, Ed. D
[email protected]