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ESEA Reauthorization: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead. -- Status of reauthorization and appropriations action -- Major outstanding issues. Programs with “Ratified” agreements . Reading First Early Reading First Safe and Drug-Free Schools 21 st Century Community Learning Centers
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ESEA Reauthorization: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead -- Status of reauthorization and appropriations action -- Major outstanding issues
Programs with “Ratified” agreements • Reading First • Early Reading First • Safe and Drug-Free Schools • 21st Century Community Learning Centers • Education Technology • Migrant Education • Neglected and Delinquent
More Programs with “Ratified Agreements” • Comprehensive School Reform • Indian, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native Education • Impact Aid • Education of Homeless Children and Youth • Innovative Education (block grant) • Even Start
Additional Ratified Agreements • Charter Schools • Magnet Schools • Rural Education • Additional, small programs (Civic Ed, Close Up, Women’s Equity, etc.)
Programs and Issues without Ratified Agreements • Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies • Teacher Quality (Title II) • Bilingual and Immigrant Education • Flexibility initiatives • Rewards and sanctions • Small programs, consolidations • Authorization levels
Title I Assessments: New Requirements • Grades 3-8, in reading and math • Science, 3 grade levels, starting in 2007-8 (Senate only) • Assessments must be given to all students • Trigger?
Adequate Yearly Progress: House • 12-year timeline • Annual progress for each group (racial/ethnic, disadvantaged, LEP)
Adequate Yearly Progress: Senate • 10-year timeline • Incorporates disaggregated data for groups (ethnic/racial, disadvantaged, LEP, gender, migrant). • But allows weighting and combining of data. • Allows three-year averaging • Requires other factors
Title I Accountability, year by year • Baseline year for testing (2001-2002?) • Year 1 – School improvement • Year 2 – School improvement, optional corrective action • Year 3 – Mandatory corrective action • Year 4 – Reconstitution • Year 5 – Reconstitution year 2
Teacher and Paraprofessional Accountability • House: fully qualified teachers • Senate: highly qualified teachers • House: paraprofessionals
State Accountability • State “Achievement in Education” awards • Tied to State assessments and NAEP • Mandatory participation in State NAEP • State sanctions • Achievement completion bonuses
Achievement Completion Bonuses • “Ed-Flex” • Rural flexibility • Indian Education “Integration of services” • “Straight A’s” • “Local Flex” • Transferability
Examples of new programs • Rural Education • Mentoring • Community Service for Expelled and Suspended Students • Alcohol Abuse Education • Public School Choice • Literacy through School Libraries
Examples of New Programs • “Educational, Cultural, Apprenticeship, and Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Whaling and Trading Partners in Massachusetts”