2013 NSAII CONFERENCE Becky Wissink, Associate Director Education Policy & Practice Department NEA Center for Great Public Schools ESEA AND RELATED PROGRAMS.

2013 NSAII CONFERENCEBecky Wissink, Associate Director Education Policy & Practice DepartmentNEA Center for Great Public Schools

ESEA AND RELATED PROGRAMS UPDATE

Education Policy & Practice - EPP Teacher Quality - TQ ESP Quality - ESPQ Priority Schools - PS Research - RES

Policy analysts(desks): ECE – Higher Ed everything in between. Funding, charter schools, vouchers,

assessments & accountability, parent community engagement, IDEA/Special Ed, ESEA, Math, STEM, ELA

GPS Indicators EPP monthly phone call EPP bi-weekly e-newsletter

Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) --Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013 (S. 1094)

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)—Every Child Ready for College or Career Act (S. 1101)

Senate HELP Committee approves Chairman Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act by a vote of 12-10 along party lines

Alexander bill offered as amendment and defeated

Chairman John Kline (R-MN)—Student Success Act (H.R. 5)

George Miller (D-CA)—Student Success Act substitute bill

House Education and the Workforce Committee approves Chairman Kline’s Student Success Act by a vote of 26-13

Committee votes against Miller substitute bill by a vote of 13-26

House of Representatives passes Student Success Act 221-207 with amendments

Looking forward . . .

For NEA ESEA/NCLB resources and updates: (www.nea.org/lac or www.edvotes.org)

NEA messages on the reauthorization (excerpt):

CHAMPION STUDENT SUCCESS

oReplace Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) with authentic accountability systems designed to improve learning, identify successful schools, and support struggling ones oIncrease wraparound services to help students come to school ready to succeed oUse multiple sources of evidence of student learning and school performance over time oSupport standards and assessments that are accessible for all students and that address the unique instructional and assessment needs of students with disabilities and English-language learners

NEA messages on the reauthorization (continued)

ELEVATE THE PROFESSION Help districts recruit and retain excellent teachers and education support professionals,

especially in hard-to-staff schools Promote high standards and rigorous preparation for entry into the teaching profession Foster comprehensive systems of induction, mentoring, and professional development for

educators

FIGHT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Provide for adequate, equitable, and sustained funding for schools; fully fund critical

programs such as Title I of ESEA and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Provide federal incentive grants to support state efforts to implement education finance

systems that provide equitable and sufficient funding for each student Provide sustained and targeted support and research-based intervention strategies for

struggling or “priority” schools

Approved: 42 states, Puerto Rico, D.C. and eight California districts

Waiting to hear: Illinois, Iowa and Wyoming

Not currently pursuing: California, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota (request withdrawn), and Vermont (request withdrawn)

FIRST AND SECOND ROUND STATES CAN APPLY TO DELAY PERSONNEL USE OF TEACHER EVALUATIONS

STATES CAN APPLY FOR FIELD TESTING FLEXIBILITY

STATES CAN APPLY FOR WAIVER RENEWALS, January

Race to the Top (main program) Race to the Top—Early Learning

Challenge Race to the Top—District Competition School Improvement Grants Investing in Innovation Promise Neighborhoods

Total cut to all ED programs: $2.48 billion Represents the largest cut ever to ED

programs Sequestration rolled back ED discretionary

funding (excluding Pell Grants) nine years to below the 2004 level even though schools (preK to postsecondary) are serving 5.8 million more students

Cut to ESEA-related programs: $1.22 billion

Cut to Title I, Part A: $727 million Cut to Title II, Part A teacher quality: $124

million Cut to Impact Aid: $65 million Cut to Race to the Top: $28 million Cut to School Improvement State Grants:

$27 million

Cut to special education (IDEA): $633 million

Cut to career and technical education (CTEA): $56 million

Cut to Head Start (administered by HHS): $401 million which cut services to more than 57,000 low-income children

KIDS, NOT CUTS, visit www.nea.org/lac

ESEA Reauthorization not on the foreseeable horizon

Waiver program still in effectgood and bad

Funding concerns

And…

Bob’s your uncle. or

Robert’s your mother’s brother.

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