ESEA R EAUTHORIZATION
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U.S. Department of Education
ESEA REAUTHORIZATION
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Overarching Goal
Goal: All graduates have opportunities for success in the 21st century economy.
Goal: All students graduate high school on time prepared for at least one year of post-secondary.
Goal: All students enter middle school with foundational skills to tackle advanced subjects.
Goal: All kindergarten students arrive ready to learn and remain on track to 4th grade.
“By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.”
President Barack Obama, February 24, 2009
Elementary(Grades K-5)
Secondary (Grades 6-12)
Post-Secondary
Early Learning(Birth-grade 3)
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Overarching Principles
Raise the bar for all students. Close the gap.
Tight on goals. Loose on means.
Foster innovation and reward success.
Build on the four assurances.
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Fiscal Year 2011 Budget
Includes a $3 billion increase for programs under ESEA, and an additional $1 billion contingent on reauthorization – largest increase proposed in the 45-year history of the law.
Lays out a vision for the major themes for ESEA reauthorization: redefining the federal role in PK-12 education to focus less on compliance and more on rewarding success and supporting innovation.
Focus on maximizing impact by flexibility in approach, emphasizing competitive funding, accountability for outcomes, and evidence of results.
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Proposed Increases for ESEA Funding
Formula - Formula -
Competitive: $4.2b
Formula: $20.8b
$25.0bCompetitive: $7.8b
Formula: $20.3b
$28.0b
FY10 FY11 Request
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Core Areas for ESEA Reauthorization
College- and Career-Ready Students
A Complete Education
Great Teachers and Great Leaders
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
Successful, Safe and Healthy Students
Fostering Innovation and Excellence
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College & Career-Ready Students – Principles
Lowered the barBecause of wrong incentives
Raise the barFocus on college and career
readiness
NCLB Our Proposal
Too prescriptiveFor too many schools
Greater flexibilityFor all but lowest-performing &
gap schools
Too punitiveEven where progress is being
made
Recognize successReward and learn from
progress & growth
Narrowed curriculumFocusing on tests in math and
ELA
Well-rounded education
Allow all subjects, fund better testsFocus on gaps &
equityFocus on achievement of all
student groups
Focus on gaps & equity
Maintain focus + appropriate interventions
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College- and Career-Ready Students – Approach
Respond to greatest
challenges
Provideflexibility for
results
Recognize& reward success
Rethinking the federal accountability system• Use growth and progress to measure
schools.• Focus on closing achievement gaps.
Similar differentiation at district and state level
Schools in bottom 5%
Schools in next 5%
Achievement gaps
Most schools
School makinggreatest gains
Schools meeting all performance
targets
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Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
English Learnerso Strengthen programs for
English learners and support teachers of ELs, including through new competitive funds.
All programso Transparency on outcomes.o Greater flexibility.o Other minor changes to
address community concerns or implementation issues.
Maintain federal support for historically underserved groups.
English Learner Education
Migrant Education
Impact Aid
Neglected & Delinquent
Homeless Education
Indian Education
Alaska Native Education
Native Hawaiian Education
Rural Education
Support students with disabilities in IDEA and across ESEA.
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Great Teachers and Great Leaders
Improve the effectiveness and equitabledistribution of teachers & leaders.
Support ambitious reforms
in teacher & leader placement,
compensation, recognition & advancement.
Develop & scale up programs that
prepare teachers & leaders to be
effective where needed most.
Effective Teachers & Leaders ($2.5b)
Teacher & Leader Innovation Fund ($950m)
Teacher & LeaderPathways ($405m)
Meaningful evaluations
Equitable distribution
Preparation& support
Flexibilitywith results
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A Complete EducationImprove low-income
students’ access to well-
rounded education in
subjects such as history, art,
foreign languages, &
financial literacy.
Improve access to accelerated coursework for students in high-need schools, including early college/dual enrollment,
other acceleration & transition activities.
Improve literacy instruction in
high-need districts and
schools, aligned with standards
that build to college- and
career-readiness.
Well-Rounded ($265m)
College Pathways & Accelerated Learning ($100m)
Literacy($450m)
Improve STEM instruction in
high-need districts and
schools, aligned with standards
that build to college- and
career- readiness.
STEM($300m)
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Successful, Safe & Healthy Students
Strengthen community
learning centers & support more learning time
including:•after-school programs;•expanded learning time;•full-service community schools.
Create birth-through-
college-and-career-
continuum of:•effective community services;•strong family supports;•comprehensive education reform.
Implement climate
measurement systems to
target resources to:
•improve school safety and strengthen family & student engagement; •improve students’ physical & mental health.
21st Century Community
Learning Centers ($1.2b)
PromiseNeighborhoods
($210m)
Successful, Safe, & Healthy
Students ($410m)
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Fostering Innovation & Excellence
Encourage States & districts
to take on comprehensivesystemic reforms.
Create and expand
high-performingcharter & other
public autonomous
schools.
Race to the Top ($1.35b)
Supporting Effective
Charters ($400m)
Spur and scale up promising and proven innovations.
Investing inInnovation ($500m)
Design and implement
comprehensive systems of
choice.
Promoting PublicSchool Choice
($90m)Support magnets that raise
diversity & achieveme
nt.
Magnet Schools
Assistance ($110m)
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Core Areas for ESEA Reauthorization
College- and Career-Ready Students
A Complete Education
Great Teachers and Great Leaders
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
Successful, Safe and Healthy Students
Fostering Innovation and Excellence