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2013 NSAII CONFERENCEBecky Wissink, Associate Director Education Policy & Practice DepartmentNEA Center for Great Public Schools
ESEA AND RELATED PROGRAMS UPDATE
Education Policy & Practice - EPP Teacher Quality - TQ ESP Quality - ESPQ Priority Schools - PS Research - RES
Policy analysts(desks): ECE – Higher Ed everything in between. Funding, charter schools, vouchers,
assessments & accountability, parent community engagement, IDEA/Special Ed, ESEA, Math, STEM, ELA
GPS Indicators EPP monthly phone call EPP bi-weekly e-newsletter
Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) --Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013 (S. 1094)
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)—Every Child Ready for College or Career Act (S. 1101)
Senate HELP Committee approves Chairman Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act by a vote of 12-10 along party lines
Alexander bill offered as amendment and defeated
Chairman John Kline (R-MN)—Student Success Act (H.R. 5)
George Miller (D-CA)—Student Success Act substitute bill
House Education and the Workforce Committee approves Chairman Kline’s Student Success Act by a vote of 26-13
Committee votes against Miller substitute bill by a vote of 13-26
House of Representatives passes Student Success Act 221-207 with amendments
Looking forward . . .
For NEA ESEA/NCLB resources and updates: (www.nea.org/lac or www.edvotes.org)
NEA messages on the reauthorization (excerpt):
CHAMPION STUDENT SUCCESS
oReplace Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) with authentic accountability systems designed to improve learning, identify successful schools, and support struggling ones oIncrease wraparound services to help students come to school ready to succeed oUse multiple sources of evidence of student learning and school performance over time oSupport standards and assessments that are accessible for all students and that address the unique instructional and assessment needs of students with disabilities and English-language learners
NEA messages on the reauthorization (continued)
ELEVATE THE PROFESSION Help districts recruit and retain excellent teachers and education support professionals,
especially in hard-to-staff schools Promote high standards and rigorous preparation for entry into the teaching profession Foster comprehensive systems of induction, mentoring, and professional development for
educators
FIGHT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Provide for adequate, equitable, and sustained funding for schools; fully fund critical
programs such as Title I of ESEA and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Provide federal incentive grants to support state efforts to implement education finance
systems that provide equitable and sufficient funding for each student Provide sustained and targeted support and research-based intervention strategies for
struggling or “priority” schools
Approved: 42 states, Puerto Rico, D.C. and eight California districts
Waiting to hear: Illinois, Iowa and Wyoming
Not currently pursuing: California, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota (request withdrawn), and Vermont (request withdrawn)
FIRST AND SECOND ROUND STATES CAN APPLY TO DELAY PERSONNEL USE OF TEACHER EVALUATIONS
STATES CAN APPLY FOR FIELD TESTING FLEXIBILITY
STATES CAN APPLY FOR WAIVER RENEWALS, January
Race to the Top (main program) Race to the Top—Early Learning
Challenge Race to the Top—District Competition School Improvement Grants Investing in Innovation Promise Neighborhoods
Total cut to all ED programs: $2.48 billion Represents the largest cut ever to ED
programs Sequestration rolled back ED discretionary
funding (excluding Pell Grants) nine years to below the 2004 level even though schools (preK to postsecondary) are serving 5.8 million more students
Cut to ESEA-related programs: $1.22 billion
Cut to Title I, Part A: $727 million Cut to Title II, Part A teacher quality: $124
million Cut to Impact Aid: $65 million Cut to Race to the Top: $28 million Cut to School Improvement State Grants:
$27 million
Cut to special education (IDEA): $633 million
Cut to career and technical education (CTEA): $56 million
Cut to Head Start (administered by HHS): $401 million which cut services to more than 57,000 low-income children
KIDS, NOT CUTS, visit www.nea.org/lac
ESEA Reauthorization not on the foreseeable horizon
Waiver program still in effectgood and bad
Funding concerns
And…
Bob’s your uncle. or
Robert’s your mother’s brother.
an expression of unknown origin, commonly used in Britain and Commonwealth nations. Typically, someone says it to conclude a set of simple instructions, similar to the French expression "et Voila!" or the American slang expressions "...and that's that," or "...and there you go!"