OACTE Meeting

May 12, 2010

AACTE Update•Policy Briefings•ESEA•State Leaders Institute•Day on the Hill•Partnerships

Policy Briefing Series•March 11: The Clinical Component

•April 15:An Emerging Picture of the Teacher Preparation Pipeline

•May 10: Effective Teaching Requires Effective State Policies

ESEA Blueprint and Educator Preparation

•Eliminates all targeted federal support for teacher preparation in higher education

•Consolidates federal support for educator preparation into a new authority – Teacher and Leader Pathways Program ($405 million)

•Eliminates the Title II set-aside for higher education partnerships

• Only funding in Higher Education Act for teacher preparation eliminated; 100% match eliminated

• Undermines teacher preparation reform – focus on clinical

• 85% of new teachers prepared in higher education• Funding goes mostly to locals who may or may not

partner with higher education• Demanding accountability provisions remain in Higher

Education Act with no funding • New program 1st funded in September 2008 hasn’t had a

chance to prove its effectiveness; stimulus grants not awarded yet

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AACTE’s Response to the President’s Budget & The ESEA

Blueprint

AACTE’s Response Cont.• Change “highly qualified” to “highly effective”• Invest in national performance assessment to

measure effectiveness

• 2.5% set aside for higher ed in ESEA Title II also eliminated ($70 M); we recommend increase to 5 %

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AACTE’s Response Cont.Press releases on Budget and Blueprint

Meetings with Congressional staff, White House staff, Department staff

Higher Education Task Force on Teacher Preparation

AASCU AJCU

AAU APLUACE NAICU

Dear Colleague Letter in House-Representative Price (D-NC) + 13 OthersRequest $150 million for TQP

Recommendation on ESEA Reauthorization to Congress

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State Leaders Institute & Day on the Hill

June 15 – 17, 2010

Partnerships•Partnership for Teacher Quality•Data Quality Campaign•Higher Education Secretariet