ESEA Reauthorization at the Office of Safe And Drug-Free Schools

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ESEA Reauthorization at the Office of Safe And
Drug-Free Schools

• Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary

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President Obama Produce a higher percentage of
college graduates than any other country in the
world by the end of the next decade.

• Whats the goal at ED?

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Four Assurances
Raise standards and improveassessments. Recruit, retain support effective educators, andensure equitable distribution.
Build robust data systems that track student progressand improve practice. Turn around low-performing schools, focusing on dropout factories and their feeder schools.
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Core Areas for ESEA Reauthorization
Accelerating Achievement Ensuring Equity
Effective Teaching Learning
Supporting StudentSuccess
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Accelerating Achievement Steps
Step 1 Local Flexibility for Most Schools
Step 2 Reward Success Identify schools that
deserve recognition and rewards
Step 3 Respond to Greatest Challenges Identify
schools that require aggressive interventions
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Accelerating Achievement Approach

• Rethinking the federal accountability system
• Use growth and progress to measure schools.
• Focus on closing achievement gaps.

Similar differentiation at district and state
level
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Supporting Student Success Principles

• Ensure students are safe and healthy.
• Ensure students have regular access to adults who
  care about their success.
• Provide comprehensive supports along the
  birth-through-college-and-career continuum,
  working with CBOs.
• Offer more time and supports for students and
  teachers to focus on teaching and learning.
• Engage and empower families.

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Supporting Student Success Structure
PromiseNeighborhoods (210m)
Successful, Safe, Healthy Students (410m)
21st Century Community Learning Centers (1.2b)

• Strengthen community learning centers support
  more learning time including
• after-school programs
• expanded learning time
• full-service community schools.

• Implement climate measurement systems to target
  resources to
• improve school safety and strengthen family
  student engagement
• improve students physical mental health.

• Create birth-through-college-and-career-continuum
  of
• effective community services
• strong family supports
• comprehensive education reform.

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In a Truly Safe School Every Student Feels Like

• They Belong.
• They are Valued.
• They Feel Physically and Emotionally Safe.

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Tie Safe Schools into ED Reform Agenda
Build robust data systems that track student progressand improve practice. Safe Schools Measure school climate with the same rigor we measure academic progress
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• What Gets Measured is What Gets Done

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School Safety Index

• How?
• 2010 Safe and Supportive Climates
• 2011 Proposal Successful, Safe and Healthy
  Students
• What?
• Staff, Student, and Family Surveys
• Incident Data
• Why?
• School-level Evaluation
• Greater linkage between data collection and
  programming

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Program Model
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Engagement The quality of the relationships,
including respect for diversity, between students
and their peers, staff and their peers, students
and staff, and staff and families and (b) the
level of participation and involvement by
families, staff and students in school activity.
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Safety The physical and emotional security of the
school setting as perceived, experienced, and
created by students, staff, and families.
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Environment (a) The physical and mental health
supports offered to students, (b) the physical
plant, (c) the academic environment, and (d) the
fairness and adequacy of disciplinary procedures.
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Keep in Touch!

• Kevin.Jennings_at_Ed.gov
• 202-245-7830

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School Climate InitiativeBryan Williams
(bryan.williams_at_ed.gov)

• Eligible Applicants State Educational Agencies
  (SEAs)
• Purpose This program awards grants to SEAs to
  support new approaches designed to change school
  culture and climate and thereby improve character
  and discipline, and reduce drug use, crime and
  violence.
• Application Deadline Date Spring 2010
• Application Submission TBD
• Project Period Up to 48 months
• Estimated Funds Available 29,300,000
• Estimated Average Size of Awards 4,200,000 to
  5,800,000
• Estimated Number of Awards 5 to 7 awards

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Building State Capacity for Preventing Youth
Substance Use and ViolenceChristine Pinckney
(Christine.Pinckey_at_ed.gov)

• Eligible Applicants State Educational Agencies
  (SEAs)
• Purpose Building State Capacity Building for
  Preventing Youth Substance Use and Violence
  provides competitive grants to State Educational
  Agencies (SEAs) to build capacity and encourage
  collaboration between (SEAs) and other State
  agencies that are involved in efforts to prevent
  youth substance use and violence. Funds will be
  used to develop or enhance capacity at State
  agencies so that they can support local education
  agencies (LEAs) in their efforts to create and
  sustain a safe and drug-free school climate.
• Application Deadline Date TBD
• Application Submission TBD
•  Project Period Up to 12 months
•  Estimated Funds Available 8,000,000
•  Estimated Average Size of Awards 125,000 -
  250,000 (NOTE A nonbinding budget maximum has
  been developed for each State)
• Estimated Number of Awards 56
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Emergency Management for Higher Education
(EMHE)Tara Hill (tara.hill_at_ed.gov)

• Eligible Applicants To be considered for an
  award under this competition, an applicant must
  be considered an institution of higher education
  (IHE), or a consortia thereof.
• Purpose Funds projects at institutions of higher
  education (IHE) designed to develop, or review
  and improve, and fully integrate campus-based
  all-hazards emergency management planning
  efforts.
• Application Deadline Date May 12, 2010
• Application Submission Now
•  Project Period Up to 24 months
•  Estimated Funds Available Approximately
  7,000,000 from ED 2,000,000 from HHS
•  Estimated Average Size of Awards Up to
  750,000 depending on student enrollment
•  Estimated Number of Awards 26
• Web Link http//www.ed.gov/programs/emergencyh
  ighed/applicant.html

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Thank You!

• Office of Safe Drug-Free Schools Internet 
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  html
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