March Madness: federal education update

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March Madness federal education update

• AASA
• March 2012

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Overview

• ESEA
• House
• Senate
• Waivers
• Funding
• FY13
• Sequestration

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ESEA Reauthorization Overview

• House Cmte passed ESEA bills out of committee in
  late February
• Very partisan
• Can expect it to move to the floor, but not much
  further

• Senate passed their bipartisan bill out of
  committee in October
• Do not expect it to the floor any time soon

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ESEA Reauthorization The Good

• Both snap AYP, AMO, 100 proficiency
• Both require annual testing in math/reading in
  grades 3-8 and once in high school
• Continued data disaggregation
• States get big say in intervening in
  low-performing schools
• Eliminates requirement re tutoring and school
  choice
• Both reauthorize REAP

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ESEA Reauthorization Points of Concern

• House
• Maintenance of Effort
• Funding Cap
• Equitable Participation
• Charters

• Senate
• Comparability Changes
• Reliance on One-Time testing
• Treatment of Foster Kids
• Codification of RttT and i3

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ESEA House Senate Differences

• Both call for higher standards House makes it
  illegal for Secretary to endorse specific efforts
  (Common Core)
• House model lacks any specific turn around
  models, as well as any parameters in identifying
  who would use models
• House doesnt include another percentage of
  schools for special attention (Senate includes
  gap schools, administration includes those
  at-risk of 5)
• House bill eliminates HQT requirement
• House bill requires SEA/LEAs to develop teacher
  evaluation systems (Driven by student performance
  and having more than 2 levels) Senate only
  requires it for those applying for competitive
  grants
• House bill includes significant expansion of
  funding flexibility

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ESEA Regulatory Relief

• Flexibility being offered in 11 specific areas
• States have to adopt all three policy priorities
• Higher standards
• Differentiated accountability system
• Teacher/principal evaluation system based on
  growth
• Conditional, quid-pro-quo deal, with states
  having to adopt specific policy priorities in
  exchange for relief

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ESEA Regulatory Relief

• To date, 39 states have expressed interest in
  the waivers
• 11 states applied for and received waivers in the
  first round CO, FL, GA, IN, KY, MA, MN, NJ, NM,
  OK, and TN
• 26 more states applied in the second round
• Who hasnt applied? AL, AK, CA, HI, ME, MT, NV,
  NH, ND, PA, TX, WV, and WY
• One more round, applications due Sept. 6

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FY13 Budget Proposal

• USED only non-defense funding increase -about
  1.7 billion
• 30 billion to retain, hire teachers and first
  responders
• 30 billion to modernize at least 35,000 schools

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FY13 Budget Proposal

• Level funds Title I and IDEA
• Consolidates 38 programs down to 11
• 850 million for RTT
• 150 million for i3
• 2.5 billion for teacher quality formula grants
• 400 million for Teachers/Leaders Innovation Fund
  
• NEW 5 billion grant program to reform the
  teaching profession
• Eliminates funding for Impact Aid Federal
  Property Program

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AASA Advocacy Resources

• AASA Website www.aasa.org
• AASA Blog www.aasa.org/aasablog.aspx
• AASA Twitter _at_Noellerson
• Weekly Leg Corps Concise weekly wrap up of what
  happened in Congress (email Sasha)
• Monthly Update Summary of everything going on in
  Congress (email Noelle)
• Policy Insider A periodic publication that takes
  a more in-depth look at current education policy
  issues (email Noelle)

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Questions?

• Noelle Ellerson (nellerson_at_aasa.org)Assistant
  Director, Policy Analysis Advocacy
• Sasha Pudelski (spudelski_at_aasa.org)
• Government Affairs Manager