NCLB Update

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NCLB Update

• August 2008
• Marilyn Peterson, Federal Programs Administrator

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Agenda

• Staff and Assignment Changes
• 2008-09 NCLB Consolidated Application
• Closeout of 2007-08
• Consolidated Program Reviews
• Auditing Data
• Adequate Yearly Progress
• Annual Measurable Objectives
• Other

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Staff and Assignment

• Title I Director Diane Stuehmer
• Title IV (Safe and Drug Free) Director Mike
  Kissler
• New staff
• Randy McIntyre Title I and will also be
  reviewer for ESU 4 and 17
• Sharon Katt will continue with the NCLB Qualified
  Teacher work
• Terri Schuster assisting Nancy Rowch

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2008-09 NCLB Application

• Opening date hopefully still in August
• Upgrade to software for the GMS
• Adds more validations as you enter information so
  there are fewer changes needed during the
  approval process
• SAVE PAGE takes you to the top of the page
  where any errors or omissions will be noted
• Closing date coordinating date with other major
  collections like NSSRS, etc.

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Preparing for Application

• Only very minor changes to questions
• Can use narratives from previous year for many
  (still need to re-enter them ?)
• Title I Targeting Step 4
• Adds required set-asides for schools and
  districts in school improvement
• Adds a percentage for non-public when you
  set-aside for district-wide activities

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Amendment Description

• New feature added during 2007-08 to identify the
  changes made in an amendment
• Must indicate the original application is NOT an
  amendment before the original application will
  pass the consistency check!
• Hoping to get this changed for next year but not
  enough time for 2008-09

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Targeting Step 4

• Title I Building Status Schoolwide or Targeted
  Assistance School
• List of approved schoolwide projects on the page
• This data is the official record in NDE for the
  Title I buildings used in
• NCLB Qualified Teachers
• State of the Schools Report
• Auditing data, etc.

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Data Quality Assurance

• New assurance on the NCLB Consolidated
  Application
• The applicant has policies and procedures to
  ensure quality control of data and information
  required to be submitted under P. L. 107-110.
• Districts should have, at a minimum, policies on
  confidentiality (FERPA) and records retention

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Quality Control of Data

• Eventually all districts should have written
  procedures and practices to ensure data is
  collected and reported as accurately as possible
• Training will be offered by NDE for leaders and
  for data coordinators/stewards in the 2008-09
  school year
• We encourage all districts to participate

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Payments

• No change in payment options from last year
• Scheduled payments staff salary and benefits
  paid monthly (75 of what is budgeted if 20,000
  or more)
• Will not be able to select scheduled payments in
  a later amendment

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Closeout 2007-08

• Improving! Most districts have amended in
  carryover from 2006-07. This must be done before
  you can close out 2007-08 or the money must be
  released.
• Closeout of 2007-08 is due by Friday, August 29,
  2008 unless you need to spend down in Title I or
  Title IV to meet the carryover limitations

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Carryover Limitations

• Title I 15 of 2007-08 allocation
• Title IV 25 of 2007-08 allocation
• Waiver request needed to exceed carryover
  limitations
• Form on NCLB Federal Programs homepage
• Submit form before doing closeout

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Closeout

• Remember to
• Indicate (check) that this is the Final Report
  for each program
• Submit a Final Report for each program in your
  application
• Complete the Year-to-Date Expenditures column
• Do not complete the expenditures by object code
  section that you do for other reports

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Consolidated Program Reviews

• Three year schedule will be posted on NCLB
  Federal Programs page soon
• Can request to change the schedule by contacting
  your reviewer
• Encouraging districts to consider the new pilot
  of Continuous Improvement Integrated Visits

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NSSRS Data Collections

• 2007-08 first year of full implementation
• Lessons learned include
• New paradigm Data needs to correct before
  submission
• Validations during submission help identify some
  issues but not all
• Verification reports help districts see data and
  compare to old paper forms

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• Program staff need to work closely with data
  staff and audit the data before it is submitted
• NDE program staff are auditing the data for
  accuracy also

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NCLB Data in NSSRS

• Staff data being collected on the personnel and
  curriculum reports
• Matched to Title I building status (schoolwide
  project or targeted assistance school)
• Title I paraprofessional data tied to building
  status also
• Used for
• NCLB Qualified Teachers and the Annual Measurable
  Objectives (AMO) of Title II, Part A
• State of the Schools Report

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Staff Data in NSSRS

• NCLB Qualified Teachers
• Non-NCLB Qualified Teacher report sent to all
  districts later this Fall.
• Identifies teachers in 2007-08 that were assigned
  to teach outside of their endorsed area or did
  not have a HOUSSE (High Objective Uniform State
  Standard Evaluation)
• HOUSSE is a way to demonstrate content competency
• HOUSSE forms available on Federal Programs
  homepage due November 1

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Title I Data in NSSRS

• Title I Program Fact template
• Targeted Assistance School participants
• Preschool participants that are not in a
  Schoolwide project
• Non-public student participants
• Must have a Student record
• Considered enrolled in the public school for the
  time spent receiving Title I services
• Must collect attendance data
• Count in district average daily attendance and
  average daily membership

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AYP From NSSRS

• Student data (race/ethnicity, gender,
  Free/Reduced lunch eligibility, special education
  status, English Language Learner) needed for
  creating subgroups
• Performance on standards in Reading and Math
• Regular assessments and alternate assessments
• Science is not a part of AYP

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AYP Grade Levels

• AYP includes all students in grades 3 through 8
  and one grade in high school
• NDE determined grades to include in Elementary,
  Middle and High School
• School level used grades in the building and, if
  more than one grade span, used last years
  determinations based on enrollment
• District used last years determinations or
  enrollment
• Can be appealed if district doesnt agree

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Full Academic Year (FAY)

• Collected in NSSRS at both district and school
  level
• There should be no break in enrollment between
  the last Friday in September and the end of the
  assessments or the end of the school year
• The percent proficient is calculated only on
  students who were enrolled a Full Academic Year

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Performance for AYP

• Calculating an overall performance level from an
  average of results on all standards (with
  results) for each student

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Percent Proficient

• New AYP State Goals for 2007-08 results

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New Participation Rate

• Participation rate first identify the number of
  students enrolled on the last day of school (as
  reported in the Year-End Student Snapshot) that
• Had all N for performance results on standards
• Had out-of-level or modified assessments reported
• Had no assessment results reported

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Participation Rate Calculation

• Calculate the percent participating
• Displayed on State of the Schools Report
• Used for AYP goal of 95 participation
• In previous years, there was an option to average
  current and prior years participation rate
  this is no longer an option.

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Writing Results

• The Other Academic Indicator for grades 4 and 8
• If there are less than 30 students, the formula
  will
• Average the number of participants from current
  and prior year
• Use a weighted average of percent proficient
• No change in graduation rate calculations

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Calculating AYP

• There are no other changes to the formula or
  process for calculating AYP in 2007-08
• Confidence intervals (99) will be applied to
  Reading, Math and Writing results a confidence
  interval of 75 will be applied to Safe Harbor
• Other Academic Indicators (Writing and Graduation
  rate) will use making progress from the previous
  year as well as meeting the goal

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Display for AYP

• The AYP displays on the State of the Schools
  Report will look the same
• The Continuous Progress (AYP Status Decision)
  that looks at two consecutive years of progress
  will be displayed on both the Preview window and
  the final version of the Report Card that is
  released to the public

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School Improvement

• We are required to identify the AYP Status
  Decisions on the State of the Schools Report that
  is released to the public. This remain the same
  
• MET or NOT MET
• NOT MET, IMPROVEMENT SHOWN
• SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT