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Joint Hill Briefing: ESEA

Joint Hill Briefing: ESEA. Kelly Pollitt, NAESP Noelle Ellerson, AASA. Overview. Reauthorization Title I Formula Fairness Competitive v. Formula and Consolidation Waivers v. Regulatory Relief. Reauthorization. Going on four years of reauthorizing effort ,

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Joint Hill Briefing: ESEA

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  1. Joint Hill Briefing: ESEA Kelly Pollitt, NAESP Noelle Ellerson, AASA

  2. Overview • Reauthorization • Title I Formula Fairness • Competitive v. Formula and Consolidation • Waivers v. Regulatory Relief

  3. Reauthorization • Going on four years of reauthorizing effort , • House and Senate taking very different approaches • Senate: How comprehensive? How many amendments? Pointing to introduced bills? • House: Piecemeal. What is the piece? What is the meal?

  4. Reauthorization Senate • Ever moving timeline…..from Easter to Memorial Day to July 4th to…..August? September? • Question of how comprehensive or bipartisan the bill will be, as well as what amendments there will be and how much agreement the amendments have . • Top Level Talks

  5. Reauthorization House • Three pieces to date: • H.R. 1891, Setting New Priorities in Education Spending ActFull Committee Wednesday, May 25, 2011Ordered favorably reported, as amended, to the House by a vote of 23-16 • H.R. 2218, Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools ActFull CommitteeWednesday, June 22, 2011Ordered favorably reported, as amended, to the House by a vote of 34-5. • HR 2445, State and Local Funding Flexibility Act Full Committee TODAY

  6. Reauthorization • 2011 Who’s Who of ESEA Reauthorization • Administration • Big Eight:Reps. Kline, Miller, Hunter, Kildee; Sens. Harkin, Enzi, Bingaman, Alexander • Previous architects of NCLB • House R’s • Senate Chairman Harkin • Education Organizations • Foundations & think tanks they fund

  7. Key Issues in Reauthorization • Mandated Standardization v. Focus on Poverty • Formula v. Competitive • Punitive Accountability v. Incentivizing Accountability • Assessment: One-Time v. Growth • Overly Prescriptive v. Flexibility • Charters: More v. Less • Assessing Special Learners • Early Childhood Education • Health/Wellness/Total Child • Turnaround Models/School Improvement

  8. Title I Formula Fairness • www.formulafairness.com • Led by Rural School and Community Trust • Current statute uses two weighting brackets to determine an LEAs Title I allocation • Unintended consequence is that some larger, less-poor schools can end up receiving more Title I dollars per-child than smaller, poorer districts

  9. Title I Formula Fairness • All Children are Equal Act provides legislative fix • Turns down the volume on number weighting to ensure that Title I dollars are distributed to concentrations of poverty • Bill introduced yesterday by Mr. Thompson • All Children are Equal (ACE) Act • Urge your representative to sign on!

  10. Waivers v. Regulatory Relief • 80% of LEAs labeled as failing for 2011-12 school year • AASA/NSBA call to action for targeted, specific regulatory relief • More than 1,000 signatures from all 50 states • Secretary Duncan interest in quid-pro-quo approach to providing relief through conditional waivers

  11. Waivers v. Regulatory Relief • LEAs should not have to adopt policy priorities (think Race to the Top or turnaround models), especially unfunded priorities, to get relief from a broken law • Regulations got is in to the mess, regulations (well, reversing them) can get us out • If the policies the administration wants were popular with policy makers or practitioners, they would be more widely adopted and implemented already. • Using waivers to force these priorities is not good policy

  12. Waivers vs. Regulatory Relief • Urge your Representatives and Senators to, in the absence of complete reauthorization, support targeted regulatory relief. • Suggested options? Suspension of sanctions. This would freeze AMO/AYP at 2010-11 school year levels. • This maintains accountability, is not a blanket waiver, and provides LEAs with the relief they need while we wait for Congress to pass a bill 4 years past-due.

  13. Questions? Noelle Ellerson nellerson@aasa.org Sasha Bartolf sbartolf@aasa.org Kelly Pollitt kpollitt@neasp.org

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