Eric W. Waldo U.S. Department of Education Deputy Chief of Staff July 2012 U.S. Department of Education Policy Overview.

Eric W. WaldoU.S. Department of Education

Deputy Chief of Staff

July 2012

U.S. Department of Education

Policy Overview

Overarching Goal

“By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.”

President Barack Obama, February 24, 2009

Elementary (grades K-5)

Secondary (grades 6-12)

Post-Secondary(certificates

and degrees)

Early Learning

(birth-grade 3)

Comprehensive, Cradle-to-Career Agenda

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Building Blocks of Our Agenda

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High Quality Early Learning

College Affordability, Access, and Completion

Standards & Assessments

Teachers & Leaders

Data Systems School Turnaround

In the Service of Student Outcomes

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Kindergarten Readiness

Achievement Gains (Growth)

Achievement Gaps

High School Graduation

College without Remediation

Degree/Certificate Completion

Consistency Across Signature Initiatives

Race to the Top – Early Learning

Investing in Innovation (i3)

School Improvement Grants

Teacher Incentive Fund

ESEA Flexibility Program

Race to the Top

Student Lending Reform &Increased Financial Aid

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Levers for Reform

Formula Grants – Protect Underserved Students & Ensure Equity

Low-income students

Students with disabilities

English learners

Other underserved students

Competitive Grants – Spur Innovation

Investing in Innovation

Race to the Top

Teacher Incentive

School Improvement

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Transform the U.S. Department of EducationFocus on outcomes

Fuel reform and innovation

Identify and scale effective state practices

Build State and Local Capacity for Continuous ImprovementFocus on outcomes

Identify and scale effective local practices

Encourage innovation

Positive Indicators…

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Turning around the nation’s lowest performing schools

Teaching and assessing against college- and career-ready standards

Improving teacher and principal effectiveness

Providing more low-income students with Pell grants and loans for college

States driving comprehensive education agendas

Much Still to be Done…

• Showing results from P-20 reform investments• Driving educational equity• Developing a vision for the teaching profession

of the 21st century• Promoting college affordability and completion• Reauthorizing education laws that are due or

overdue: ESEA, IDEA, HEA, WIA, Perkins• Reinventing ED: from compliance to innovation

Eric W. WaldoU.S. Department of Education

Deputy Chief of Staff

July 2012

U.S. Department of Education

Reauthorize ESEA

Respond to greatest

challenges

Provideflexibility in

return for results

Recognize& reward

success

• Fair – Use growth and progress to measure schools.• Focused – Intervene only in the chronically lowest

performing schools and those with persistent achievement gaps.

• Flexible – Differentiate interventions and support.

Lowest performing schools & schools

with largest achievement gaps

Most schoolsSchools making

greatest gains, all students on track

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Strengthen and Renew the Teaching Profession

Recruit top talent

&improve

preparation programs

Provide meaningful feedback & support

Professional development

Induction

Recognition and rewards

Advancement opportunities

(1) Teachers and leaders matter.(2) Focus on outcomes.(3) Every teacher deserves feedback and support.(4) Every student deserves effective teachers & leaders.O

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11Support reform-oriented labor/management agreements

Boost College Completion

Improve college access

and affordability

Drive college completion

Build pK-12 college-going

culture

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8 million more college graduates by 2020