FEDERAL EDUCATION POLICY UPDATE Noelle Ellerson MAISA Annual Summer Conference June 2013
Jan 21, 2016
FEDERAL EDUCATION POLICY UPDATE
Noelle Ellerson
MAISA Annual Summer Conference
June 2013
WHAT IS GOING ON?
Regulations Authorizations and Reauthorizations Budget/Appropriations Hearings/Mark Ups
OVERVIEW
ESEA: Reauthorization & Waivers Federal Funding: Sequestration,
Appropriations, Fiscal Cliff & Debt Ceiling Rural Education: REAP Education Technology: E-Rate & ATTAIN School Nutrition Other
ESEA: REAUTHORIZATIONS & WAIVERS
Reauthorization: It’s a matter of willingness vs. capacity (aka politics)
Administration that dislikes both House and Senate bill
Reality: 38 states in some phase of waiver implementation Onus is on administration and Congress to make
sure reauthorization doesn’t collide with waivers The bills are……here. And reported out of
committee!
ESEA REAUTHORIZATION: HOUSE BILL Eliminate AYP, AMO,
SES, and 100% proficiency
Return control of assessments and accountability to the states
Maintains math and ELA testing requirements; adds science
Continues data disaggregation
Reauthorizes REAP
Promotes growth models and multiple measures
Includes computer adaptive assessment
Adjusts 1 and 2 percent caps
Requires 4 year adjusted cohort graduation rate and allow states to calculate 5, 6 and 7 year rates
ESEA REAUTHORIZATION: SENATE BILL More or less eliminates
AYP, AMO, SES, and 100% proficiency
SAG (Sufficient Academic Growth), performance targets and student achievement levels
Prescriptive in intervention (who and how)
Both return control of assessments and accountability to the states
Has math, ELA and science testing requirements
Maintains data disaggregation
Reauthorizes REAP Promotes growth models
and multiple measures Includes computer
adaptive assessment Adjusts 1 and 2 percent
caps Requires 4 year adjusted
cohort graduation rate Includes Ed Tech program Expanded school climate
requirements (SNDA)
ESEA REAUTHORIZATION: THINGS TO LOOK FOR
Standards, Accountability and Assessment School Improvement/Turn Around Highly Qualified Teachers Funding Portability/School Choice Maintenance of Effort Comparability Teacher Evaluation Funding Flexibility Class Size Reduction Ed Tech RttT and i3
ESEA: REAUTHORIZATIONS & WAIVERS
Waivers Administration issued waivers to 35 states Point of frustration on Capitol Hill
Direct to District Waivers? CA consortium
“trial run” idea Texas group
Role of waivers in removing pressure for Congress to act
TITLE I AND IDEA PORTABILITY
Heard on the Romney campaign trail, reiterated by Representative Eric Cantor
Idea that these funds would follow the child to the school they attend.
Apart from usual opposition to vouchers, there are other implications: Runs against original congressional intent of Title
I Funds aimed at concentrations of students Technicalities of how this would work; and, what
would happen when (inevitably) students come back?
TEACHER EVAL & ASSESSMENT WAIVERS
Earlier this week, USED announced flexibility states in two specific areas: Delayed implementation for using student
growth on state tests as a factor in staffing decisions
Frozen accountability for states/locals implementing field tests of online assessments
TITLE I 15% CARRYOVER WAIVERS
In April, the Dept released a letter to Chief State School Officers indicating the opportunity to purse waivers related to the 15% carryover of Title I funds
USED will allow states to apply for a blanket waiver so they can grant LEAs flexibility to carryover more than 15% of their FY12 Title I funds, in recognition of the impact of sequestration.
Specifically, it allows a waiver to be granted more than once every three years, which is the current statutory limit.
FUNDING
Federal Appropriations FY13 started Oct 1, 2012 Finally wrapped at the end of March Level funds education progams Includes across the board cut of 0.2 percent Does NOT repeal sequestration, meaning cut to
all federal K12 programs will be 5.23% Separate from sequester
FY14 process has started; see later slides!
US MAP: FEDERAL REVENUE IN LOCAL EDU BUDGETS
FUNDING: FY14 House and Senate each passed budget
resolutions. Drastically different; we are likely on course for
another CR House
Maintains sequestration Funding levels for education are, at best, slightly
worse than sequestration Significant reliance on discretionary spending cuts
Senate Resolves sequestration, though there would still be
cuts to discretionary spending Maintains investment in education Includes$20 million for school infrastructure
FY14: PRESIDENT’S REQUEST
Dead on arrival (or, even more so than usual!)
Once again highlights education as a funding priority
Once again pushes all new dollars in to competitive programs
$1.2 billion in new funding goes to competition. Level funds Title I and IDEA, along with almost all other programs.
FY14 PRESIDENT’S BUDGET REQUEST
New money in: STEM School Safety i3 and RttT Charter Schools,
Magnet Schools and High School redesign
Promise Neighborhoods
21st Century
Questionable assumptions Resolves sequester ESEA reauthorization
NO funding for education technology
Impact Aid CUT $66 million
RURAL EDUCATION
REAP Included in base bills with all of AASA’s priorities
Adjust the sliding scale Locale Code Eligibility for both programs Switch poverty indicator to F/RLP
Use REAP to move any federal dollars identified for rural-only competition/set aside
Title I Number Weighting Concentration vs. Count
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
E-Rate Anti-Deficiency Act Raise the cap Reform the program: discount matrix? Eligible
services? Education Technology
ATTAIN Act Miller Bills
OTHER
School Nutrition Vouchers/Charters Epinephrine Pens Early Education Perkins/Career Tech IDEA Full Funding And more:
Seclusion/Restraint IDEA and Due Process Bullying School Safety
CONTACT YOUR ADVOCACY TEAM
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