utah state board of education july 16, 2013. debra roberts ◦ chair, utah state board of education...
TRANSCRIPT
Debra Roberts◦Chair, Utah State
Board of Education◦Chair, Audit
Committee, USBE◦BA, English, BYU
Overview of the State Board of Education◦ Dave Crandall◦ Jennifer Johnson
Utah Core Standards◦ Tami Pyfer◦ Dave Thomas
What is Next◦ Heather Groom◦ Jefferson Moss
David Crandall◦Vice Chair, Utah State
Board of Education◦Software Engineer◦MS, Mechanical
Engineering, University of Utah
Jennifer Johnson◦Chair, School Trust
Investment Task Force
◦CFA Charterholder◦Investment Fund
Manager◦MBA, BYU
UTAH PUBLIC EDUCATION GOVERNANCE
The general control and supervision of public education shall be vested in a Board of Education. The membership of the board shall be established and elected by statute. The State Board of Education shall appoint a State Superintendent of Public Instruction who shall be the executive officer of the board.
Article X, Section 3, Utah Constitution
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
UTAH PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM
State Superintendent
Executive Officer
Veto Power
Board Election Process
District Schools
General Control & Supervision(Educational
standards, licensing, programs & fiscal administration)
Establish School System
NCLB, Reduced Lunch, Title I & IDEA
Funding & Programs
Utah State Office of Education
Staff
Utah State Board of EducationExecutive Authority
Federal Government
Utah State Legislature
School system, budget, & programs
UtahGovernor
District School Boards
State CharterSchool Board
CharterSchools
District Superintendents
WHAT DOES THE STATE BOARD DO?
Appoint State Superintendent
Adopt Administrative Rules to implement
statutes & policies (151 Rules)
Establish minimum standards for all
public schools
Licensure of educators
Prepare annual Budget and approve
disbursements to local districts and charter
schools
Audit the Public School System
Implement the Utah Performance
Assessment System
Administer federal programs (Special Ed &
Title I)
Adopt Graduation
Requirements
Career & Technical Education
Approve Charter Schools
Utah School for the Deaf and Blind
School Trust Lands and Trust
Fund
Utah State Office of Rehabilitation
(Adult Education)
Define, Establish and Implement a Core
Curriculum (Standards)
Appoint State Superintendent
Adopt Administrative Rules to implement
statutes & policies (151 Rules)
Establish minimum standards for all
public schools
Licensure of educators
Prepare annual Budget and approve
disbursements to local districts and charter
schools
Audit the Public School System
Implement the Utah Performance
Assessment System
Administer federal programs (Special Ed &
Title I)
Adopt Graduation
Requirements
Career & Technical Education
Approve Charter Schools
Utah School for the Deaf and Blind
School Trust Lands and Trust
Fund
Utah State Office of Rehabilitation
(Adult Education)
Define, Establish and Implement a Core
Curriculum (Standards)
ADMINISTRATIVE RULES
Administrative rules implementing Utah statute and board policies
are written, reviewed or updatedat almost every Board meeting (151 rules)
WHAT IS THE STATE BOARD DOING?
Appoint State Superintendent
Adopt Administrative Rules to implement
statutes & policies (151 Rules)
Establish minimum standards for all
public schools
Licensure of educators
Prepare annual Budget and approve
disbursements to local districts and charter
schools
Audit the Public School System
Implement the Utah Performance
Assessment System
Administer federal programs (Special Ed &
Title I)
Adopt Graduation
Requirements
Career & Technical Education
Approve Charter Schools
Utah School for the Deaf and Blind
School Trust Lands and Trust
Fund
Utah State Office of Rehabilitation
(Adult Education)
Define, Establish and Implement a Core
Curriculum (Standards)
STATE SUPERINTENDENT
Full Board participation in the evaluation of the State Superintendent this year.
WHAT IS THE STATE BOARD DOING?
Appoint State Superintendent
Adopt Administrative Rules to implement
statutes & policies (151 Rules)
Establish minimum standards for all
public schools
Licensure of educators
Prepare annual Budget and approve
disbursements to local districts and charter
schools
Audit the Public School System
Implement the Utah Performance
Assessment System
Administer federal programs (Special Ed &
Title I)
Adopt Graduation
Requirements
Career & Technical Education
Approve Charter Schools
Utah School for the Deaf and Blind
School Trust Lands and Trust
Fund
Utah State Office of Rehabilitation
(Adult Education)
Define, Establish and Implement a Core
Curriculum (Standards)
LICENSURE OF EDUCATORS
Task force studying improvements to
licensure discipline for misconduct
WHAT IS THE STATE BOARD DOING?
Appoint State Superintendent
Adopt Administrative Rules to implement
statutes & policies (151 Rules)
Establish minimum standards for all
public schools
Licensure of educators
Prepare annual Budget and approve
disbursements to local districts and charter
schools
Audit the Public School System
Implement the Utah Performance
Assessment System
Administer federal programs (Special Ed &
Title I)
Adopt Graduation
Requirements
Career & Technical Education
Approve Charter Schools
Utah School for the Deaf and Blind
School Trust Lands and Trust
Fund
Utah State Office of Rehabilitation
(Adult Education)
Define, Establish and Implement a Core
Curriculum (Standards)
SCHOOL TRUST LANDS AND TRUST FUND
Task force studying the investment oversight of the permanent State Trust Fund
with appointees from the Senate,House, Treasurer, and Governor
(reports on August 2, 2013)
WHAT IS THE STATE BOARD DOING?
Appoint State Superintendent
Adopt Administrative Rules to implement
statutes & policies (151 Rules)
Establish minimum standards for all
public schools
Licensure of educators
Prepare annual Budget and approve
disbursements to local districts and charter
schools
Audit the Public School System
Implement the Utah Performance
Assessment System
Administer federal programs (Special Ed &
Title I)
Adopt Graduation
Requirements
Career & Technical Education
Approve Charter Schools
Utah School for the Deaf and Blind
School Trust Lands and Trust
Fund
Utah State Office of Rehabilitation
(Adult Education)
Define, Establish and Implement a Core
Curriculum (Standards)
CORE STANDARDS
Every five to seven years the Utah Core Standards
are reviewed and updated
WHAT IS THE STATE BOARD DOING?
• Increase proficiency in reading and math• Increase high school graduation rates• Implement the Utah Core Standards• Computer Adaptive Assessments• Implement the ACT assessments
• EXPLORE–8th grade• PLAN–10th grade• ACT–11th grade
Tami W. Pyfer◦ Chair, Communication
Committee, USBE◦ Clinical Instructor, College of
Education, Utah State University
◦ Program Specialist, Utah Commission on Character and Civic Education
◦ MEd, Early Childhood Special Education, Utah State University
David L. Thomas◦ Chair, Accountability and
Finance Committee, USBE◦ Chief Civil Deputy Summit
County Attorney◦ JD Law, College of William
& Mary
Fine Arts
Health Education
English Language
ArtsMathematics
Science Social Studies
World Languages
FinancialLiteracy
Pre-K
Physical Education
Educational Technology
UTAH CORE STANDARDS
CTEStandards
Fine Arts
Health Education
English Language
ArtsMathematics
Science Social Studies
World Languages
FinancialLiteracy
Pre-K
Physical Education
Educational Technology
UTAH CORE STANDARDS
CTEStandards
What it is State partnership for reform of education standards
◦ English Language Arts◦ Math
Partnership of 48 states◦ National Governors Association (elected)◦ Council of Chief State School Officers (elected & appointees)
Led by the data and experts
What it is not Not federal standards
◦ No federal funds◦ No involvement of the US Department of Education (US ED)◦ Not a curriculum◦ Not a student database◦ Not part of FERPA (privacy law)◦ Not part of No Child Left Behind◦ Not part of Race to the Top
Math Work Team52 Math & educational professionals
18 University mathematics/statistics professors
Math Feedback Team22 Math & educational professionals
9 University mathematics/statistics professors
English Work Team50 English & educational professionals
11 University English and education professors
English Feedback Team12 English & educational professionals
5 University English and education professors
Participating schools: Yale, Arizona State, UC Berkeley, Georgia, Missouri, Minnesota, Vermont, LSU, Arkansas, Maryland, Arizona, Florida, Harvard, Texas, Johns Hopkins, Cal Poly, Arizona State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Stanford, North-western, Ohio State, Illinois, UC Davis, Michigan, Georgia,
Pittsburg, Brown, Emory, Oregon, Florida State, Illinois, Wyoming
• Dr. Peter E. Trapa, Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah• Dr. David Wiley, Director of Research, Center for Improvement of Teacher Education,
Brigham Young University• Dr. Hugo Rossi, Director of the Center for Science and Math Education, University of Utah• Dr. Emina Alibegovic, Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah• Dr. James Cangelosi, Professor of Mathematics, Utah State University• Dr. Janice A. Dole, Professor of Literacy, University of Utah• Dr. D. Ray Reutzel, Distinguished Professor of Early Literacy Education, Utah State
University• Dr. Gary Dohrer, Professor of English, Weber State University• Liz Herrick, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Westminster College• Christine Walker, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Utah Valley University• Keith White, Associate Professor, Developmental Mathematics, Utah Valley University• Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics• Utah Board of Regents
ACT, Inc., Alignment of Common Core and ACT’s College & Career Readiness System (June 2010)
College Board, Research Report 2010-5A, Common Core State Standards Alignment: ReadiStep, PSAT/NMSQT, and SAT (November 2010)
• National experts don’t support the standards.
• Only 4 of 28 experts on the validation team disagreed.• This is just the unsuccessful “Investigations Math” approach.
• Standards don’t define how to teach or what to use to teach.• This will kill the reading of classic literature.
• Choices of materials are local
• Informational text is part of all other classwork (e.g. – social studies,
science, math, etc.).• Utah won’t be able to change these standards – or only 15%.
• Utah can change any or all of the standards.
• The State Board rushed to adopt the standards with no public notice or input.
• All Board actions were in public meetings where public input is taken.
• Utah public input was received during three 30-day comment periods
throughout the process.
• Public input is still accepted, analyzed, and used (e.g. – handwriting).• Utah’s new Core Standards are an example of federal overreach.
• NCLB is federal overreach. Common Core adoption allows a waiver.• The Common Core is a new federal, high stakes assessment system.
• The assessment system is entirely within Utah’s control.• Common Core standards obligate the collection of personal student.
• No new data will be collected as a result of the Common Core adoption.
Old Utah Core Standards◦ C in English ◦ A- in Math
Common Core received ◦ B+ in English ◦ A- in Math
“The Common Core provides admirable focus and explicitly requires standard methods and procedures, enhancements
that would benefit Utah’s standards.”
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that the Common Core State Standards were comparable or superior to the existing standards in 48 states, including Utah.
(Carmichael, “The State of State Standards—and the Common Core—in 2010,” Fordham Institute [July
2010]).
According to a recent “white paper” released by the National Center on Education Statistics, the Obama Administration
wants to use the 13-question survey that eighth-grade students customarily fill out during NAEP tests to ask more
probing questions in order to determine a student’s socioeconomic status.
NAEP is part of the Institute of Education Sciences, of the federal Department of Education.
Its board is appointed by the US Secretary of Education.
States are required to participate in NAEP federal assessments as part of NCLB and as a condition to receiving Title I monies. In the past, many states realigned their state education standards to the
federal NAEP standards, such as in the case of Massachusetts in 2001.
On May 2, 2013, the Utah State Board of Education enacted Resolution 2013-03, which provides the Board’s position against the release of identifiable student data.
The Common Core Initiative does not require the release of any student data information.
Utah is not associated with any of the testing consortiums which may require student data information. Current federal law (FERPA), prohibits the release of identifiable student data. However, it does allow for the release of aggregated, non-identifiable data.
There is some confusion over Utah statutes, which appear to be contradictory as to the release of identifiable student data. The State Board has encouraged the Utah Legislature to appropriate changes to ensure the privacy of public school students.
Jefferson Moss◦Legislative Liaison,
USBE◦Investment Specialist,
Key Private Bank◦MBA, BYU
Heather Groom◦Chair, Charter School
Committee, USBE◦Executive VP of Sales,
MojaWorks◦BA, Spanish, BYU
• Need for more communication – especially on sensitive
issues like Common Core
www.utahpublicschools.org
• Board resolutions in 2013•Creation of the School Trust Investment Task Force (2013-01)•Utah Core Standards (2013-02)•Data Sharing and Privacy Protections (2013-03)•Role of Proper Assessments (2013-04)
• Legislative communications – more engagement