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Washington Update from Your NASDCTEc Public
Policy Team

• Dave Buonora, Assistant Director-Programs
• Nancy Conneely, Public Policy Manager

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Appropriations

• House action
• Perkins flat funded
• 1.160 billion basic state grant
• Slightly under 103 million for Tech Prep
• Senate action
• Committee action scheduled July 28

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

• 4 guiding principles
• save and create jobs,
• improve student achievement through school
  improvement and reform,
• ensure transparency, reporting and
  accountability,
• invest in one-time, replicable initiatives.

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ARRA

• Reform through grants
• Race to the Top
• Community Colleges
• FIPSE Grant
• Career Pathways Innovation Fund
• Green Grants (DoL)
• Teacher Incentive Fund
• www.recovery.gov

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Obama Administration

• Focus areas
• Some postsecondary education/ increase college
  going
• Focus on drop out factories
• Early Childhood
• Accountability

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Obama Administration

• In the weeks to come, I will also lay out a
  fundamental rethinking of our job training,
  vocational education, and community college
  programs.  It's time to move beyond the idea that
  we need several different programs to address
  several different problems -- we need one
  comprehensive policy that addresses our
  comprehensive challenges.
• 
  --Barack Obama
• May
  8, 2009

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Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act

• Good news for CTE!
• Title III capital funding
• Title V support for education and training

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OVAE Assistant Secretary

• Brenda Dann-Messier
• Career highlights
• Former Clinton official
• TRIO and Adult Ed background
• Worked directly with impacted populations
• Confirmation/start date

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ETA Assistant Secretary

• Jane Oates
• Career highlights
• Executive Director of NJ Commission on Higher
  Education
• Former HELP Committee senior staffer
• Understands Perkins
• Confirmed

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Workforce Investment Act

• House action
• Series of hearings during this Congress
• Senate action
• Listening sessions
• Hearing last week
• Timeline?

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ETA Green Grants

• Green Capacity Building Grants
• http//edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-14920.pd
  f
• Deadline August 5, 2009
• State Labor Market Information Improvement
  Grants
• http//edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-14930.pd
  f
• Deadline August 14, 2009
• Energy Training Partnership Grants
• http//edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-14924.pd
  f
• Deadline September 4, 2009
• Pathways Out of Poverty
• http//edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-14928.pd
  f
• Deadline September 29, 2009
• State Energy Sector Partnership (SESP) and
  Training Grants
• http//edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-14922.pd
  f
• Deadline October 20, 2009

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CTE green grants in Energy bill

• Grants for Renewable Energy Education for the
  Nation (GREEN) Act
• American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
• Clean Energy Curriculum Development Grants

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Thank you for joining us!

• An archived copy of this webinar will be
  available on the NASDCTEc website at
  www.careertech.org.
• For more information regarding any of todays
  topics, you may contact us at
• Dave Buonora, dbuonora_at_careertech.org
• Nancy Conneely, nconneely_at_careertech.org
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