Federal Education Policy and Funding 2010 & 2011: Report to the LAUSD Board of Eduacation

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Inside the BeltwayOutside the Box 1

Federal Education

Policy and Funding:

What Happened in

the 111th Congress

and the Outlook for

the 112th Congress

Outside the Box

Inside the Beltway

Joel Packer, Principal

[email protected]

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Inside the BeltwayOutside the Box

THE 111

TH CONGRESS

GreatVictoriestoGridlock


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Second Session (2010)

StudentAidand FiscalResponsibilityActo Additional moneyforPellgrants, community

colleges, minority-serving IHEs

$10 billion Education Jobs Fund

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Child NutritionReauthorizationo Healthyand Hunger-Free KidsAct

o PresidentObamasigned into law yesterday.o $4.5 billion 10-yearincrease

o Provides 6 cents/meal increase - firstrealreimbursementrate increase inover30years.

o Removes junk food from schools byapplyingnutritionstandards forall foodssold inschools.

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DREAMActo Passed House 12/8/10

o Senateon 12/9 failedtoovercome procedural barrierto considerationof House-passedversion.

o Still chance fora Senatevoteon House bill

60voteswill be difficult

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Education Funding

From Unprecedented Increases ToA

Freeze


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President Obamas FY 11 Budget

Increaseof $3.5 billion (+7.6%)

o Additional $1 billion contingenton ESEAreauthorization

Newfunding for:o Racetothe Top ($1.35 billion)

o Investing in Innovation ($500 million)

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OtherESEA program increases:o School TurnaroundGrants = +$354.4 million (+65%)

o AssessingAchievement= +$39.2 million (+9.6%)o Promise Neighborhoods = +$200 million (+2,000%)

o MagnetSchools = +$10 million (+10%)

o ELL Grants = +$50 million (+6.7%)



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Programs Frozen

o Title I

o MigrantEducationo Neglected/Delinquent

o Education forHomeless

o ImpactAid

o Rural Educationo Indian Education

o 21stCenturyCommunityLearningCenters

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IDEA StateGrants = +$250 million (+2.2%)o Federalshareofspecialed costswouldremainat

17%o Amountperstudent= $1,750



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FY 11 Education Funding: Senate

$2.8 billion increase (+4.5%)o Title I = +$450 million (+3.1%)

o School ImprovementGrants = +$79million (+14.5%)

o StrivingReaders = +$50 million (+25.0%)

o EarlyChallenge Learning Fund = $300 million (new)

o 21stCenturyCommunityLearningCenters = +$100 million(+8.6%)

o Education forHomelessChildren = +$10 million (+15.3%)

o

High SchoolGraduation Initiative = +$50 million (+100.0%)

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o Racetothe Top = $675 milliontotal

o Investing in Innovation = $250 milliontotal

o Promise Neighborhoods = +$10 million (+100%)

o English LanguageAcquisitionGrants = +$50 million (+6.7%)

o IDEA StateGrants = +$420 million (+3.7%)

o IDEAGrants forInfantsand Families = +$20 million (+4.6%)

o AdultEducation = +$14 million (+2.2%)

o EducationResearch = +$40.5 million (+20.2%)

Failsto funda $5.7 billion Pellgrantshortfall

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FY 11 Education Funding: CR

Passedthe House 12/8

Freezes funding forall programsatFY 10

Provides $550 million forRace To The Top

Paysoff $5.7 billion Pellgrantshortfall

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Omnibus Senatewilltrytosubstituteanomnibus

appropriations bill forthe HouseCR.

Contains increasesof $290 millioneach forTitle Iand IDEA, $135 million increase forafterschool

programs, $224 million forInvesting in Innovationaswellasthe $550 million forRTTTand $5.7 billion forPellgrants.

Uphill fighttoget60votes.

Republican leadership opposedto both theCRandomnibus.

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Squeeze on Aggregate Funding

Obama budget= $1.128trillion

House-passed level = $1.121 trillion

SenateAppropriations committee = $1.114trillion

SenateRepublicansproposed level = $1.108trillion

o Nowalsothe Senateomnibus level

Year-longCR = $1.089trillion

Republican Pledge= FY 08 level = $1.029trillion ($99 billion belowObama)

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2010 Elections

Republican Landslide


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2010 Congressional Elections -

Third Change Cycle in a RowU.S. House

OverwhelmingRepublicanvictories,with Republicans holdingthe largestnumberof Houseseatssince 1948.

BiggestHousegainssince 1938rolling back Democraticvictories in 2006and2008.

U.S. Senate

16 NewSenators - Largestnumbersince 1980,with over40% of Senatorsservingtheirfirstterm in 112th Congress.

Democrats holdontothe Senate byslim margin; face difficult2012 cyclewith23 Democrats up forreelection comparedtoonly10Republicans.


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112th Congress 111th Congress

Democrats 51 57

Republicans 47 41

Independents 2(both caucus with Ds)

2(both caucus with Ds)

112th Congress 111th Congress

Democrats 193 255

Republicans 242 178

Vacancies 2

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate


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112

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Congress

MoreGridlockorBipartisan Deals?


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Pledge to America

Released in Septembertoserveasa broadoutlineofRepublicanagenda iftheytook controlofthe House.

Pledge calls forcutting $100 billion innon-securitydiscretionaryspending - returnto FY 2008appropriations levels couldresultin 20% cuttoeducation funding

Calls forrepealof health carereform law.

Permanentlyextendallexpiringtaxcuts.

Pledge doesnotmentioneducation.


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ChairmanJohn Kline (R-MN)

Has praised Education SecretaryDuncan forhis leadership on ESEAand hasendorsed

someaspectsoftheA

dministrationsBlueprint.

Supports pursuingeducationreform thatrestores local control,empowers parents, letsteachersteach,and protectstaxpayers.

Supports increasing funding IDEA,which hehas calleda "huge unfunded mandate ... thatweoughttoaddress."

Wantsto consolidate 60education programs.

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House Education and Labor

Committee


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House Education and Labor

Committee

Ranking Member George Miller (D-CA)

Hada majorrole inwriting NoChild LeftBehind in2001.

Championof funding forfederaleducation

programs.


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Senate HELP COMMITTEE

Chairman Tom

Harkin (D-IA)Ranking Member

Mike Enzi (R-WY)


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ESEA Reauthorization

OddsagainstESEA beingreauthorized.

NotaRepublican priority.

NewRepublicansareveryconservative.

As manyas 12-15newRswill beon EducationandLaborCommittee.

No money.

Repealof health carereform istheirpriority.

Splitsamong DemsandamongRepublicans.


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ESEA Reauthorization

National Journal -12/10/10

The islandonwhich anewK-12 lawcould bebuiltsurrounded byaseaof union-supported

Democratsononesideandtea partyRepublicansontheotherhasshrunk considerably.

Bipartisanagreementonreauthorizing NoChildLeftBehindseems improbable. Thesafe betis

gridlock.


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Education Funding

Increaseswill beverydifficult.

Likelyto be capsand cutson domesticdiscretionaryspending.

Republicanswill push toroll backspendingto FY 08 levelsandthen freeze.

Couldresultina 21.7% aggregate cutfromObama FY 11 budgetlevels.

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Education Funding

PresidentObamaon 12/6/10: Iwillcontinueto fightforthose investmentsthatwill help Americawintherace for

the jobsand industriesofthe future -andthatmeansinvestments ineducationand innovationand

infrastructure.

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Education Funding

NationalCommissionon FiscalResponsibilityandReform:we mustinvestineducation, infrastructure,and

high-valueresearch and developmentto help oureconomygrow, keep usgloballycompetitive,and make iteasier

forbusinessesto create jobs.

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