Bureau of Indian Education School Board Training

1. Bureau of Indian EducationSchool Board Training Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015

2. Agenda Welcome ESSAOverview Title Programs Types of School Plans Required Monitoring

3. What is ESSA? • New federal law that provides funds to improve elementary and secondary education. • Effective July 1, 2016. It is 391 pages long. • Reauthorizes and replaces No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB), which replaced the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). • Focuses on the very lowest-performing schools, including high schools with high dropout rates.

4. What’s New? • Removes Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) as measure of school success. Instead, State Educational Agencies (SEAs) determine how to measure school achievement. • No longer requires a sequence of escalating interventions such as school restructuring. Leaves such decisions to SEAs. • Permits Tribes to receive Indian education formula grants directly, beginning in 2017.

5. What Topics does ESSA Address? Planning / Needs Assessment Professional Development Recent Arrivers / Immigrants Safe Schools / Bullying School Libraries Stakeholder Engagement Student Records / Mobility Students with Disabilities Teacher / Principal Quality Technology Grants Tutoring Use of Funds Assessment Career and Technical Ed Curriculum Alignment Delinquent Youth Early Childhood Education English Learners Fraud Reporting Gifted and STEM Education Homeless /Foster Children Military Recruitment Monitoring Out-of-Class Discipline

6. What is Title I? • Originated with President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 with adoption of ESEA. • Supplements core educational programs with additional funding for disadvantaged children. • Includes programs for children in poverty, migrant children, neglected or delinquent children, homeless children, children who do not speak English as a first language, and others.

7. What is a Schoolwide Plan? • A reform strategy in a Title 1 school. • Requires a Comprehensive Needs Assessment. • Developed with staff, parents, and others. • Integrates multiple initiatives e.g. teacher quality, preschool, professional development, assessments, etc. * Described in Title 1, Part A, Section 1008, Page 62 of ESSA PDF.

8. What is a LEA Plan? Combined with Schoolwide Plan and addresses: • Parental and Family Engagement. • Preschool. • Monitoring student progress and assisting students who lag behind. • Transitions between grade levels and to college. • Out-of-classroom discipline. • Career and technical education. • Gifted and talented students (optional). • Library Programs and Digital Literacy (optional). * Described in Title 1, Part A, Section 1112, Page 51 of ESSA PDF.

9. Other ESSA Grants • Innovation and Research • Safe and Healthy Students • Family Engagement • Full-Service Community Schools • Community Support for School Success • School Emergency Response to Violence • Academic Enrichment and Gifted and Talented • Preschool

10. Monitoring Requirements When a school accepts federal money, the program must be monitored. The law states: State Educational Agencies awarding School Improvement Grants under Section 1003 shall include “monitoring and evaluating the use of funds by local educational agencies receiving an allotment (of such funds).” Title 1, Part A, Section 1003, (e)(1)(C) Page 15 ESSA PDF.

11. What are the Types of Monitoring? Integrated Accountability & Support Reviews • Focus on educational programs and effective practices • Gauge compliance with ESSA and IDEA • Test implementation of FACE guidelines Fiscal Reviews • Focus on sound financial management and planning. • Examine allowable use of expenditures and other requirements.

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