Quality Education Commission Presentation to the Education Subcommittee on Education Innovation

1. Quality Education Commission Presentation to the Education Subcommittee on Education Innovation January 16, 2007 Speaking to you today… Susan Massey Commission Chair Pat Burk ODE Chief Policy Officer

2. Quality Education Commission • Oregon’s education goals • “…the best educated citizens in the nation and the world.” • “Access to a Quality Education must be provided for all of Oregon’s youth…” ORS 329.035 • Quality Education Goals • ORS 329.015 • Academic excellence • Rigorous academic standards • Applied learning • Lifelong academic skills

3. What is the Quality Education Model? Quality Education Commission • The model was developed by the Legislative Council on the Quality Education Model in 1998-99. • The QEM identifies 23 research-based school characteristics that contribute to increasing student achievement. It targets 90% student attainment. • Uses statewide common definitions of these factors in district financial reporting. (Data Base Initiative)

4. What is the Quality Education Model? Quality Education Commission • Data are updated every two years by QEC. • Calculates a per-student cost of these factors in 3 prototype school models, i.e. elementary, middle and high school. • Uses this information to project statewide costs of the model. • Provides analytical tool for looking at school costs.

5. 12 Quality Indicators Quality Education Commission • Schools • Leadership • Parental/community involvement • Organizational Adaptability • Safe and orderly learning environment • District policies to support learning. • Teachers • Teacher/teaching quality • Professional Development Program • Teacher efficacy

6. 12 Quality Indicators (con’t) Quality Education Commission • Classrooms • Effective instructional programs and methods • School database collection and analysis to improve instruction • Students • Readiness to learn • Connectedness to school and engagement in academics and extra curricular programs.

7. Components of the Model Quality Education Commission • Creates 3 prototypical school models that contain elements that would make it possible for 90% of students to reach state standards. Data are drawn from Oregon schools. • Prototypes are based on assumptions about what these schools would look like, i.e., demographics, technology, staff quality, school size, professional growth of staff.

8. Components of the Model Quality Education Commission • Each Prototype has: • Adequate Staffing • Added instructional time and activities for students not meeting standard • Curriculum development and technology support • On-site instructional improvement • Professional development for teachers and administrators • Adequate classroom supplies • Adequate funds for building maintenance • A per-pupil calculation is applied to projected state enrollment

9. The Prototypes Quality Education Commission • Elementary—340 students • All-day Kindergarten • Class size average of 20 in primary grades • Class size of 24 in grades 4-5 • 4.5 FTE for specialists in areas such as art, music, PE, reading, math, TAG, Library, ESL, Child Development/Counselor

10. The Prototypes Quality Education Commission • Middle School—500 Students • Class size average of 25 • 1.5 additional teachers for math, English, science • Alternative programs for special needs and at-risk students • Volunteer coordinator and community outreach worker • One counselor for every 250 students • Adequate campus security

11. The Prototypes Quality Education Commission • High School—1,000 students • Class size average of 24 • 3.0 additional teachers for math, English, science • Alternative programs for special needs and at-risk students • Volunteer coordinator and communtiy outreach worker • One counselor for every 250 students • Adequate campus security • School-to-work coordinator

12. The Prototypes Quality Education Commission • Extended day and/or year • Specialized staff for library, PE, Music, Special education services, English as a Second Language • Support staff, clerical and instructional aides • Professional development for staff • Adequate computers per student • Textbooks/supplies

13. The Prototypes Quality Education Commission • Operations/maintenance • Transportation • Central special education support • Technology services • District administrative support

14. Quality Education Commission The Gap: $1.96 billion

15. What is the Quality Education Commission? Quality Education Commission • The QEC was established by Executive Order EO 99-16 on November 5, 1999, by Governor Kitzhaber and Superintendent Bunn. • Ballot Measure 1, approved by voters in November, 2000, stated that the amount of money needed to meet the QEM goals be appropriated or the legislature must issue a report on the reasons for the deficiency.

16. What is the Quality Education Commission? Quality Education Commission • The charge to the QEC was modified and placed in statute by the Oregon Legislature in the 2001 session. (ORS 327.500 and ORS 327.506) • The Commission is comprised of 11 members appointed by the Governor and is staffed by ODE. • Issues a report to the Governor and to the Legislature every two years.

17. Susan Massey, Chair, Retired Member State Board of Education Vic Backlund, Salem, Retired Legislator Yvonne Curtis, Eugene 4J, Director of Student Achievement Ed Jensen, Wallowa, Region 18 ESD Superintendent Lynn Lundquist, Prineville, President, Oregon Business Association Frank McNamara, Portland, Willamette View, Inc., President/CEO (retired) Peggy Penland, Medford, Oregon School Boards Association Deborah Peterson, Portland, High School Principal Lolenzo Poe, Multnomah County, Advisor to the Chair, Board of Commissioners Keith Thomson, Beaverton, Vice President (retired), Intel, Inc. Duncan Wyse, Portland President, Oregon Business Council Larry Wolf, Tigard, President, Oregon Education Association Who are the Commissioners? Quality Education Commission

18. Charge to the Commission(ORS 327.506) Quality Education Commission • Determine the amount of funding sufficient to ensure that the State’s system of K-12 public education meets the quality goals established in statute. ORS 329.015 and ORS 329.025 • Identify best practices in education that will lead to high student performance and the cost of implementing those best practices in K-12 schools.

19. Charge to the Commission(ORS 327.506) Quality Education Commission Issue a report to the Governor and Legislature • Current K-12 practices • Costs of continuing those practices • Expected student performance • Best practices for meeting the goals • Costs of those practices • Expected student performance using those practices • Two alternatives for meeting the quality goals.

20. Quality Education Commission • The Role of the Commission • Help policymakers understand the relationship between funding and student achievement • Identify key policy issues related to accountability, efficiency, and adequacy • Enhance our understanding of Oregon’s education system as a whole: Pre-K to 20 • Estimate the funding requirements of policy proposals • Help determine what it will take to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind

21. Quality Education Commission The Commission’s Focus • Accountability and Governance • Efficiency • Adequacy

22. Commission Goals in 2006 Quality Education Commission • Provide timely and relevant data that is useful to the legislature and the public. • Explore the relationship between funding and student performance. • Provide effective, clear and helpful communication.

23. What’s New? Enhanced Analysis Quality Education Commission • Production Function Analysis: Does level of expenditure impact student achievement? • Detailed Analysis of Spending by Object and Function across comparable states.

24. Production Function Analysis Quality Education Commission • Increasing expenditures on instruction appears to be statistically related to increasing student achievement while controlling for the effects of other variables, such as, limited English proficiency, poverty, and special education categories. • Additional expenditure is not sufficient, especially in middle and high school. Additional resources must be accompanied by effective instructional strategies.

25. Spending Analysis Quality Education Commission • Growth in per-pupil expenditures declined beginning in 2001. • Oregon’s K-12 spending as a percentage of personal income dropped below the national average beginning in 2001. • Oregon’s salary per staff FTE and total compensation per staff FTE are ranked 18th and 12th in the nation respectively. • Oregon’s per student spending is $566 below the national average. • Oregon spends more than average on student transportation and less on non-instructional areas, such as, maintenance and capital expenditures.

26. Communication Initiative Quality Education Commission • The Commission has provided high quality, independent data and analysis related to costs and outcomes. • The Commission needs to improve how it shares this information and adds value to public dialog. • A new goal of the Commission is to enhance the public’s understanding of the education system in Oregon.

27. Commission Findings Quality Education Commission • Student progress in reaching the benchmark standards has slowed in most grades. • Per-student funding in Oregon has dropped below the national average. • Special student populations, particularly special education students and students with limited English proficiency are increasing faster than the general students population. These special populations require greater resources to meet the state’s academic standards.

28. Commission Findings Quality Education Commission • Class sizes continue to rise. • Course offerings outside of the subject-areas tested on the state’s standardized tests have diminished, resulting in a narrowing curriculum in many schools. • Oregon’s Pre-kindergarten, K-12 and post secondary sectors are not well aligned in either their curricular or their resource use.

29. Commission Recommendations Quality Education Commission • Provide adequate and stable funding for Oregon’s schools. • Continue achievement gains by targeting additional resources to the areas where added resources have the greatest impact. • Early Childhood Development Programs • Early Reading Initiatives • High School Restructuring • Conduct more research into best practices and effective resource utilization.

30. Commission Recommendations Quality Education Commission • Continue efforts to build integrated data systems to foster alignment and coordination among all three education sectors. • Continue efforts to improve the governance and accountability structures that promote more effective use of resources across all three sectors of Oregon’s educational system. • Develop capacity to evaluate education’s role in improving Oregon’s economy and lowering social service costs.

31. Quality Education Commission • Alternative 1: • Phase in the provision over a 10-year period. • Allow districts time to build capacity • Spread out additional investment over time • Alternative 2: • Establish partial, most promising goals • Reading in the early grades and sustained into middle grades • Teacher and administrator professional development • High school strategies that emphasize rigorous, personalized learning for all students ALTERNATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS

32. Quality Education Commission • Questions and Discussion • Visit our website at http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=166