From the Board Room

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• From the Board Room
• To the Classroom
• PDK Panel Discussion
• September 19, 2002

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Prepared by NC Department of Public Instruction

• Overview
• Reauthorization of elementary and secondary
  education act
• Largest federal overhaul of education
• Largest increase of federal school funding
• Effective dates Jan. 8, 2002 2007

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• Focus in Four Areas
• Accountability
• Flexibility
• Emphasis on what works
• Empowerment of parents

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• Overview
• NC and Texas served as models
• NC already meets many requirements
• Implementation details are not complete
• Full regulations being developed now

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• Testing
• Aligned
• Comparable, valid and reliable
• Include LEP and special ed students
• Grade levels 3-5, 6-9, 10-12
• Annual reading and math assessments by 2005-06

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• Testing
• Science by 2007-08 in grades
• NAEP biennially starting 2002-03, grades 4 and
  8
• Test LEP students after 3 consecutive years

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• Testing Whats New for NC?
• Science
• Specific LEP regulations
• Questions about high school testing
• NC already has other testing in place

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• Demonstrating Proficiency
• All schools required to have 100 proficiency
  within 12 years
• Schools must make Adequate Yearly Progress

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• Adequate Yearly Progress Measure
• State determines baseline
• Based on 2001-02 data
• Subgroups must make annual objectives
• 95 of each subgroup must be tested

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• Failing to Make AYP
• Increasingly severe sanctions
• Public school choice (after 2 years)
• Students receive tutoring, services (after 3
  years)

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• Failing to make AYP
• District intervention (after 4 years)
• Alternative governance (after 6 years)

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• Flexibility
• Transfer up to 50 percent of various dollars
• Transfers into Title I allowed
• Flexibility projects in 7 states, 150 districts

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• Reading
• Major emphasis of law
• Reading First program targets K-3
• NC will receive 20.7 million

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• Teacher and Staff Quality
• Raises standards for teachers,
  paraprofessionals
• Standards immediate for Title I
  paraprofessionals
• Teacher standards by Dec. 31, 2005

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• Teacher Qualifications
• All teachers highly qualified by Dec. 31, 2005
• - State certification/licensing exam
• - BA degree
• - demonstrate competence in subject
• No emergency credentials

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• Teacher Qualifications
• Applies to Title I teachers first day of
  2002-03
• Applies to teachers hired prior to 2002-03 -
  end of 2005-06
• Charter schools exempt

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• Title I Paraprofessionals
• As of 1-8-02, all new hires must have
• - 2 years of higher ed OR
• - an Associate degree OR
• - pass a formal assessment
• Previous hires have 4 years to meet

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• Title I Paraprofessionals
• Exceptions to new requirements translation,
  parental involvement

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• New State-Administered Programs
• Education technology
• - Several programs consolidated
• - Goal more money to schools
• - Professional development

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• Resources
• Congress authorized 26.5 billion, including
  22 billion this year
• NC will receive 1 billion in 2002, an
  increase of 142.6 million

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• For Up-to-the-Minute Information
• DPI
• www.ncpublicschools.org/esea
• Learning First Alliance
• www.learningfirst.org/pdfs/nochildleft.pdf
• US Department of Education
• http//www.nclb.gov/