NCLB Updates

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NCLB Updates

• December 2003

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Agenda

• Current activities
• State of the Schools Report
• Federal Accountability - AYP
• New reporting requirements
• Curriculum Report
• Suspensions and Expulsions
• Grants Management System

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Whats due now?

• District School Improvement Plans
• Narrative section (questions on learning,
  organizational development and management) DUE
  NOW
• NCLB applications for Titles II-A, II-D, IV and V
  (Excel spreadsheets) due January

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End-of-year Financial Reports

• Grants awarded in the 2001-02 school year
• Payments must be made this December
• Grants for the 2002-03 school year
• End-of-year Financial Reports
• Amendments under way for adding in carryover
  funds, if any

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Reading First

• State received grant for Reading 1st
• Competitive grants to eligible districts
• 60 districts are eligible for grants based on
• STARS Reading data and poverty data
• Statewide professional development for ALL
  primary (K-3) teachers and special education
  teachers

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Reading First

• Eligible districts invited to information
  sessions
• 12/11/03 Kearney (Holiday Inn)
• 12/12/03 Scottsbluff (ESU 13)
• 12/16/03 Lincoln (Cornhusker Hotel)

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State of the Schools Report

• State Accountability
• Must have a Good, Very Good or Exemplary rating
  on both the Quality of the STARS assessments and
  the student performance on STARS
• Technical assistance will be provided to any
  districts not meeting the State Accountability

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Federal Accountability

• State Adequate Yearly Progress
• All students in the State
• Highest scores at the elementary level
• Highest areas of need English Language Learners
  and Students with disabilities
• Secondary and Middle School Math
• Overall participation (required 95
  participation) was not good at high school level

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District AYP for the State

• 159 districts had at least one group of 30
  students (represents 30 of the districts)
• Only 49 districts met all State target goals
  (about 30 of the 159 districts)
• In these 159 districts, the number of groups with
  30 students ranged from 1 to 400!

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School Level AYP for the State

• Only 546 of the 1,220 schools in the State (45)
  had at least one group of 30 students
• 277 of the 546 (51) met all AYP State target
  goals
• Title I schools only 6 identified as being in
  need of improvement

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What does it mean?

• Not meeting AYP as a school or district that
  doesnt have a Title I program has no
  consequences this year as NCLB requires two
  consecutive years of data to identify a school as
  needing improvement
• Title I schools must determine school improvement
  status based on previous years data

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Federal Accountability

• Disaggregated data allows schools and districts
  to target groups of students who are performing
  below the State goals
• Most districts already working to address areas
  or groups of students that have been identified
  as low-performing

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Sources of Assistance

• NDE homepage 2003 The Year of School
  Accountability
• Brochure, sample letters, powerpoint, etc. to
  help explain accountability to parents,
  community, school board members and staff
• NDE staff responding to requests for visits
• Title I schools visits and additional funds

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STARS Assistance

• STARS Chats with Pat and Dottie
• Teams (NDE and ESU) to assist any district
  submitting a request
• Focus on improving the Quality of the STARS
  Assessments

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Other NCLB News

• Visit in early 2004 by the U. S. Department of
  Education
• Comprehensive State Plan for School Improvement
• Title I programs
• Will involve focus discussion groups of
  principals, teachers and administrators

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Data Collections

• Paraprofessional reports
• Still analyzing the data from the Fall Personnel
  reports on paraprofessionals
• Proposing to have a State source of information
  on paraprofessionals that meet NCLB requirements

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Curriculum Report New Data

• Districts identify grades (i.e. 7-12 for
  junior-senior high) used for calculating
  instructional units
• Middle school teachers considered endorsed in
  an area if acquiring 6 semester hours each year
• Elementary teachers additional data for those
  not assigned to areas where endorsed

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NCLB Goals for Teachers

• NCLB Goal to increase the number or percentage of
  teachers receiving professional development
• Collecting the data with the School Improvement
  Plan

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Highly Qualified Teachers

• Goal is to meet the Rule 10 requirements in the
  NCLB Core Academic Areas (all except vocational
  and physical education)
• 80 of the instructional units at the secondary
  level
• 90 of middle school and 95 of elementary school
  teachers are appropriately endorsed for their
  assignments

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Measuring Progress

• Baseline data by school and district from 2003-04
  Curriculum Report (February)
• Data will be sent to districts for review
• Annual measure maintain or show progress
• Improvement plan needed after two years of not
  making progress

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Notifying Parents

• NCLB parent notification required if child is not
  being taught by a highly qualified teacher
• Nebraskas guidance is parent notification is
  required only if a long-term substitute (4 weeks
  or more)
• ONLY in Title I schools

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UMIRS

• Uniform Management Information
• and Reporting System
• All schools in the district
• truancy rates
• the frequency, seriousness, and incidence of
  violence and drug-related offenses resulting in
  suspensions and expulsions

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Incidence of Violence

• As defined by the State's criminal code, but
  shall not identify victims of crimes or persons
  accused of crimes
• Reported on a school-by-school basis
• Draft report sent in September, 2003
• Actual Report due June 30, 2004

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This document was mailed September 25, 2003
Report required by building
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(No Transcript)
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NOTE Report only students who violated criminal
code
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Questions?

• About the Suspensions, Expulsion, and Truancies
  Form, contact
• Bob Beecham, NDE
• 402-471-4740
• About the Violation of Criminal Statute data
  collection contact
• Dan Heidelberg, NDE
• 402-471-1925

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Online Grants Management

• Department is contracting with The Innovation
  Group to provide a consolidated online plan and
  application system
• NCLB grants formula and competitive
• Special Education
• Perkins
• Other State grants

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Timeline

• By June 2004
• Consolidated Plan and Applications for Title I -
  Part A, Title II Part A, Title II- Part D,
  Title III, Title IV- Part A, Title V (including
  flexibility options)
• Includes consortia and cooperative projects
• Includes current School Improvement Plans

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2004-05 School Year

• Competitive grant application and review process
  (all online)
• Special Education
• Perkins
• Other plans and applications
• Migrant program
• Payments

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Advantages

• Common look and process for all forms
• Allows districts to track grant and program
  status
• Eliminates duplication of data submission
• New portal so only one password
• Plans to fully automate the payment system

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The Innovation Group/MTW

• Created systems for Missouri and Illinois
• Allows system to connect to other systems
• Includes a grant designer tool
• Create our own forms for new grants, additional
  data collections, etc.
• May incorporate new ways and forms learned from
  other States