Federal K-12 education update, 2014

1. Federal K-12 education update, 2014 Presentation by Tom Corwin Penn Hill Group Florida K-12 Grant Developers Network Winter Conference February 7, 2014

2. Topics • FY 2014 final appropriations action • Trends in appropriations for major programs • Notable provisions in the FY 2014 Act • Anticipated FY 2014 competitions • FY 2015 budget • Status of major authorizing legislation • Pending changes in Hill leadership

3. ED Discretionary Appropriations, 2008-2014

4. Trends in Major Formula Program Appropriations($ in millions)

5. Appropriations for Selected Competitive Programs ($ in millions)

6. Additional Competitive Programs

7. Programs for which funding has been terminated since FY 2011 • Teaching American History • Smaller Learning Communities • Improving Literacy through School Libraries • Even Start • Foreign Language Assistance • Safe and Drug-Free Schools State Grants • Alcohol Abuse Reduction • Tech-Prep • Education Technology • Voluntary Public School Choice • Parent Information and Resource Centers • Women’s Educational Equity

8. Significant Provisions in FY 14 Act • Race to the Top • All funding is for Early Childhood Challenge • School Improvement Grants • States may make 5-year awards • SIG funds may be used for an evidence-based whole-school reform strategy undertaken in partnership with a strategy developer • SIG funds may also be used to implement a State-determined school improvement strategy that has been established by the SEA with the approval of the Secretary • Charter Schools • Funds may be used to support preschool education in charter schools • Javits Gifted and Talented • Funding restored ($5 million), all for the national research center

9. Anticipated 2014 Competitions

10. Race to the Top: Early Learning Challenge • Race to the Top/Early Learning Challenge • $250 million • Grants to States, must be awarded by December 31 • Joint ED/HHS administration • For activities that build the capacity of States to develop, enhance, or expand high-quality preschool programs for children from families at or below 200 percent of the poverty line • Subgrantees that are LEAs must form “strong partnerships” with early learning providers, and vice versa • Report language: the Secretary shall make two types of awards – to “low-capacity” and “high-capacity” States

11. Safe and Drug-Free Schools • Administration requested about $194 million; final number is $90 million; continuation base only $3 million. • FY 14 proposals: • School Climate Transformation Grants (separate SEA and LEA competitions) to to help schools train teachers and other school staff to implement evidence-based strategies to improve school climate • Projected application publication date: April 11 • Projected application deadline: May 21 • Originally planned amount of funding: $50 million

12. Additional Safe and Drug-Free Schools Competitions “Project Prevent” grants to help schools in communities with pervasive violence break the cycle of violence • Projected application notice publication: April 25 • Projected deadline: June 9 • Originally planned amount of funding: $25 million • Grants to SEAs to help LEAs develop, implement, and improve their emergency management plans • Projected application notice publication: April 3 • Projected deadline: May 19 • Originally planned amount of funding: $30 million

13. Innovative Approaches to Literacy • Grants to LEAs for literacy projects involving literacy and to national organizations for book distribution • $25 million available in FY 2014; all for new grants • Projected application notice publication: June 18 • Projected deadline: July 18

14. “School Turnaround Leaders” • Appears to be new competition funded from SIG national activities set-aside • Projected application notice publication: April 30 • Projected deadline: June 29

15. Elementary and Secondary School Counseling • Appropriation is $49.6 million • Continuations should be about $35 million • Projected announcement date: March 18 • Projected deadline: May 2

16. Charter Schools Competitions • $248.2 million appropriation • Appropriations language requires at least: • $45 million for Replication and Expansion (Charter Management Organizations) • $11 million for State Facilities Incentive Grants • $12 million for Credit Enhancement for Facilities • CMO competition should be $15 million; projected to begin February 5 • SEA competition unlikely • ED still developing final plans

17. Arts in Education • $25 million appropriation • About $15 million available for new awards • ED website shows plans for competitions under both Model Arts Program and Professional Development for Arts Educators, with dates TBD

18. Investing in Innovation • $141.6 million appropriation • All of it available for new awards • Grants do not have to be made until December 31 • ED has announced plans to request applications under all 3 program categories (Scale-Up, Validation, Development). Dates are TBD. • March 2013 regulations will likely govern, without change – Priorities for improving teacher and principal effectiveness, turning around low-performing schools, STEM, etc.

19. Physical Education • Appropriation = $74.6 million • Continuations approximately $39 million • Department has announced plans to “fund down the slate”

20. GEAR-UP • $301.6 million appropriation • Probably enough for $70 million in new State and Partnership grants • No TRIO precollege (Talent Search, Upward Bound) competitions planned

21. FY 2015 Budget • Release delayed until March 4 (one month late) • The Budget Control Act caps the amount for “non-defense discretionary” spending at only slightly above the 2014 level ($492.356 billion vs. $491.773 billion) • Needs in other areas (e.g., VA health care, Pell Grants) may make it difficult to achieve gains or even hold the line in K-12 education • Appropriators may try to move quickly

22. State of the Union Items • “ConnectED” (E-Rate) goal of connecting 99% of K-12 students with next-generation wireless and broadband technology within 5 years. President will announce philanthropic partnerships with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Spring, Verizon • Administration will announce winners of $100 million DOL high school initiative (funded with H-1B visa fees) • No mention of ESEA reauthorization (indicative of low priority?)

23. Reauthorization Action

24. Reauthorization Delays

25. Reauthorization Act, 113th Congress • ESEA • Passed the House (party-line vote) • Reported out by the Senate Committee (party-line vote) • WIA • Reported out by House Committee (party-line vote) • Bipartisan bill reported out in Senate Committee • CCDBG • Bipartisan bill reported out of Senate committee • HEA • Initial hearings in both Houses • Perkins Act • Initial bipartisan discussions and two hearings • ESRA • Bipartisan discussions in House stuck on authorizing levels

26. Pending Retirements, Term Limits • Sen. Tom Harkin (retiring) • Chair, Senate HELP Committee • Chair, Senate Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations • Rep. John Kline (term limited) • Chair, House Committee on Education and the Workforce • Rep. George Miller (retiring) • Ranking Democrat, House Committee on Education and the Workforce • Rep. Jack Kingston (running for Senate) • Chair, House Committee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations