MARCH MADNESS: FEDERAL EDUCATION UPDATEAASAMarch 2012

Overview

ESEA House Senate Waivers

Funding FY13 Sequestration

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

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

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

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 doesn’t 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

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

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 hasn’t applied? AL, AK, CA, HI, ME, MT, NV, NH, ND, PA, TX, WV, and WY

One more round, applications due Sept. 6

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

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

AASA Advocacy Resources

AASA Website: www.aasa.org AASA Blog: www.aasa.org/aasablog.aspx AASA Twitter: @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)

Questions?

Noelle Ellerson (nellerson@aasa.org)Assistant Director, Policy Analysis & Advocacy

Sasha Pudelski (spudelski@aasa.org) Government Affairs Manager