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