Event Name

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Quality Education Commission Presentation to the
Education Subcommittee on Education
Innovation January 16, 2007
Speaking to you today
Susan Massey Commission Chair Pat Burk ODE
Chief Policy Officer
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• Oregons education goals
• the best educated citizens in the nation and
  the world.
• Access to a Quality Education must be provided
  for all of Oregons youth ORS 329.035
• Quality Education Goals
• ORS 329.015
• Academic excellence
• Rigorous academic standards
• Applied learning
• Lifelong academic skills

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What is the Quality Education Model?
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• The model was developed by the Legislative
  Council on the Quality Education Model in
  1998-99.
• The QEM identifies 23 research-based school
  characteristics that contribute to increasing
  student achievement. It targets 90 student
  attainment.
• Uses statewide common definitions of these
  factors in district financial reporting. (Data
  Base Initiative)

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What is the Quality Education Model?
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• Data are updated every two years by QEC.
• Calculates a per-student cost of these factors in
  3 prototype school models, i.e. elementary,
  middle and high school.
• Uses this information to project statewide costs
  of the model.
• Provides analytical tool for looking at school
  costs.

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12 Quality Indicators
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• Schools
• Leadership
• Parental/community involvement
• Organizational Adaptability
• Safe and orderly learning environment
• District policies to support learning.
• Teachers
• Teacher/teaching quality
• Professional Development Program
• Teacher efficacy

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12 Quality Indicators (cont)
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• Classrooms
• Effective instructional programs and methods
• School database collection and analysis to
  improve instruction
• Students
• Readiness to learn
• Connectedness to school and engagement in
  academics and extra curricular programs.

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Components of the Model
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• Creates 3 prototypical school models that contain
  elements that would make it possible for 90 of
  students to reach state standards. Data are drawn
  from Oregon schools.
• Prototypes are based on assumptions about what
  these schools would look like, i.e.,
  demographics, technology, staff quality, school
  size, professional growth of staff.

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Components of the Model
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• Each Prototype has
• Adequate Staffing
• Added instructional time and activities for
  students not meeting standard
• Curriculum development and technology support
• On-site instructional improvement
• Professional development for teachers and
  administrators
• Adequate classroom supplies
• Adequate funds for building maintenance
• A per-pupil calculation is applied to projected
  state enrollment

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The Prototypes
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• Elementary340 students
• All-day Kindergarten
• Class size average of 20 in primary grades
• Class size of 24 in grades 4-5
• 4.5 FTE for specialists in areas such as art,
  music, PE, reading, math, TAG, Library, ESL,
  Child Development/Counselor

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The Prototypes
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• Middle School500 Students
• Class size average of 25
• 1.5 additional teachers for math, English,
  science
• Alternative programs for special needs and
  at-risk students
• Volunteer coordinator and community outreach
  worker
• One counselor for every 250 students
• Adequate campus security

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The Prototypes
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• High School1,000 students
• Class size average of 24
• 3.0 additional teachers for math, English,
  science
• Alternative programs for special needs and
  at-risk students
• Volunteer coordinator and communtiy outreach
  worker
• One counselor for every 250 students
• Adequate campus security
• School-to-work coordinator

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The Prototypes
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• Extended day and/or year
• Specialized staff for library, PE, Music, Special
  education services, English as a Second Language
• Support staff, clerical and instructional aides
• Professional development for staff
• Adequate computers per student
• Textbooks/supplies

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The Prototypes
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• Operations/maintenance
• Transportation
• Central special education support
• Technology services
• District administrative support

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The Gap 1.96 billion
Essential Budget Level ( millions) Full Funding of the QEM ( millions) Difference ( millions) Percent Difference
2007-09 Biennium Total District Funding 8,969.6 10,873.7 1,904.1 21.2

Plus 07-09 ESD Expenditures 791.4 791.4 0 0.0
Plus High-Cost Disabilities Fund 24.0 80.0 56.0 233.3
Equals Total 07-09 Funding Requirement 9,784.9 11,745.0 1,960.1 20.0

Less Revenue not in Formula 280.1 280.1 0 0.0
Less Federal Revenue to School Districts and ESDs 901.4 901.4 0 0.0
Equals Total Formula Funding Requirement 8,603.4 10,563.5 1,960.1 22.8
Less Property Taxes and Local Resources 2,797.3 2,797.3 0 0.0
Equals 07-09 State School Fund Requirement 5,806.1 7,766.2 1,960.1 33.8
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What is the Quality Education Commission?
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• The QEC was established by Executive Order EO
  99-16 on November 5, 1999, by Governor Kitzhaber
  and Superintendent Bunn.
• Ballot Measure 1, approved by voters in November,
  2000, stated that the amount of money needed to
  meet the QEM goals be appropriated or the
  legislature must issue a report on the reasons
  for the deficiency.

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What is the Quality Education Commission?
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• The charge to the QEC was modified and placed in
  statute by the Oregon Legislature in the 2001
  session. (ORS 327.500 and ORS 327.506)
• The Commission is comprised of 11 members
  appointed by the Governor and is staffed by ODE.
• Issues a report to the Governor and to the
  Legislature every two years.

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Who are the Commissioners?
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• Susan Massey, Chair, Retired Member State Board
  of Education
• Vic Backlund, Salem, Retired Legislator
• Yvonne Curtis, Eugene 4J, Director of Student
  Achievement
• Ed Jensen, Wallowa, Region 18 ESD Superintendent
• Lynn Lundquist, Prineville, President, Oregon
  Business Association
• Frank McNamara, Portland, Willamette View, Inc.,
  President/CEO (retired)

• Peggy Penland, Medford, Oregon School Boards
  Association
• Deborah Peterson, Portland, High School Principal
• Lolenzo Poe, Multnomah County, Advisor to the
  Chair, Board of Commissioners
• Keith Thomson, Beaverton, Vice President
  (retired), Intel, Inc.
• Duncan Wyse, Portland President, Oregon Business
  Council
• Larry Wolf, Tigard, President, Oregon Education
  Association

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Charge to the Commission(ORS 327.506)
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• Determine the amount of funding sufficient to
  ensure that the States system of K-12 public
  education meets the quality goals established in
  statute. ORS 329.015 and ORS 329.025
• Identify best practices in education that will
  lead to high student performance and the cost of
  implementing those best practices in K-12 schools.

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Charge to the Commission(ORS 327.506)
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• Issue a report to the Governor and Legislature
• Current K-12 practices
• Costs of continuing those practices
• Expected student performance
• Best practices for meeting the goals
• Costs of those practices
• Expected student performance using those
  practices
• Two alternatives for meeting the quality goals.

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• The Role of the Commission
• Help policymakers understand the relationship
  between funding and student achievement
• Identify key policy issues related to
  accountability, efficiency, and adequacy
• Enhance our understanding of Oregons education
  system as a whole Pre-K to 20
• Estimate the funding requirements of policy
  proposals
• Help determine what it will take to meet the
  requirements of No Child Left Behind

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• The Commissions Focus
• Accountability and Governance
• Efficiency
• Adequacy

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Commission Goals in 2006
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• Provide timely and relevant data that is useful
  to the legislature and the public.
• Explore the relationship between funding and
  student performance.
• Provide effective, clear and helpful
  communication.

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Whats New? Enhanced Analysis
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• Production Function Analysis Does level of
  expenditure impact student achievement?
• Detailed Analysis of Spending by Object and
  Function across comparable states.

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Production Function Analysis
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• Increasing expenditures on instruction appears to
  be statistically related to increasing student
  achievement while controlling for the effects of
  other variables, such as, limited English
  proficiency, poverty, and special education
  categories.
• Additional expenditure is not sufficient,
  especially in middle and high school. Additional
  resources must be accompanied by effective
  instructional strategies.

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Spending Analysis
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• Growth in per-pupil expenditures declined
  beginning in 2001.
• Oregons K-12 spending as a percentage of
  personal income dropped below the national
  average beginning in 2001.
• Oregons salary per staff FTE and total
  compensation per staff FTE are ranked 18th and
  12th in the nation respectively.
• Oregons per student spending is 566 below the
  national average.
• Oregon spends more than average on student
  transportation and less on non-instructional
  areas, such as, maintenance and capital
  expenditures.

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Communication Initiative
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• The Commission has provided high quality,
  independent data and analysis related to costs
  and outcomes.
• The Commission needs to improve how it shares
  this information and adds value to public dialog.
• A new goal of the Commission is to enhance the
  publics understanding of the education system in
  Oregon.

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Commission Findings
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• Student progress in reaching the benchmark
  standards has slowed in most grades.
• Per-student funding in Oregon has dropped below
  the national average.
• Special student populations, particularly special
  education students and students with limited
  English proficiency are increasing faster than
  the general students population. These special
  populations require greater resources to meet the
  states academic standards.

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Commission Findings
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• Class sizes continue to rise.
• Course offerings outside of the subject-areas
  tested on the states standardized tests have
  diminished, resulting in a narrowing curriculum
  in many schools.
• Oregons Pre-kindergarten, K-12 and post
  secondary sectors are not well aligned in either
  their curricular or their resource use.

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Commission Recommendations
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• Provide adequate and stable funding for Oregons
  schools.
• Continue achievement gains by targeting
  additional resources to the areas where added
  resources have the greatest impact.
• Early Childhood Development Programs
• Early Reading Initiatives
• High School Restructuring
• Conduct more research into best practices and
  effective resource utilization.

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Commission Recommendations
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• Continue efforts to build integrated data systems
  to foster alignment and coordination among all
  three education sectors.
• Continue efforts to improve the governance and
  accountability structures that promote more
  effective use of resources across all three
  sectors of Oregons educational system.
• Develop capacity to evaluate educations role in
  improving Oregons economy and lowering social
  service costs.

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ALTERNATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Alternative 1
• Phase in the provision over a 10-year period.
• Allow districts time to build capacity
• Spread out additional investment over time
• Alternative 2
• Establish partial, most promising goals
• Reading in the early grades and sustained into
  middle grades
• Teacher and administrator professional
  development
• High school strategies that emphasize rigorous,
  personalized learning for all students

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• Questions and Discussion
• Visit our website at http//www.ode.state.or.us/se
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