Stephen DeWitt Alisha Hyslop

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2009 National Policy SeminarIssues Briefing

• Stephen DeWittAlisha Hyslop

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Political Environment

• Economy taking center stage in every discussion
• Calls for bi-partisanship, but in many ways more
  partisan than ever
• Very ambitious agenda ahead
• Housing crisis
• Credit market issues
• Healthcare reform

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Congressional Balance of Power

• Senate
• 56 Democrats
• 41 Republicans
• 2 Independents
• 1 Undecided Seat

• House
• 254 Democrats
• 178 Republicans
• 3 Undecided Seats

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Federal Budget Timeline

• February President releases budget request
• March-April House and Senate work to complete
  budget resolutions by April 15
• May-July Appropriations committees set
  discretionary funding levels
• September Final appropriations bills passed and
  signed by President
• October 1 Beginning of federal fiscal year

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Appropriations Leadership

• Senate Appropriations Committee
• Chair Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
• Ranking Minority Member Thad Cochran (R-MS)
• Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and
  Education Subcommittee
• Chair Tom Harkin (D-IA)
• Ranking Minority Member Arlen Specter (R-PA)
• House Appropriations Committee
• Chair David Obey (D-WI)
• Ranking Minority Member Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
• House Labor, Health and Human Services, and
  Education Subcommittee
• Chair David Obey (D-WI)
• Ranking Minority Member Todd Tiahrt (R-KS)

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FY 2009 Appropriations

• Perkins eliminated in President Bushs budget
• House provided slight increase and Senate
  provided same level as FY 2008 for Perkins
• Most funding used to replace Presidents cuts
• Long term Continuing Resolution (3/6/09)
• End game strategy delayed

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FY 2009 Appropriations

• Compromise released in February
• 410 billion for 9 remaining bills
• Level funding for Perkins
• Small increases for Education and Labor overall
• House passed final bill 2/25/09
• Senate in the midst of debate
• New CR until 3/11/09
• Outlook uncertain

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Recovery Act

• 787.2 billion enacted 2/17/09
• Approximately 35 tax cuts and 65 spending
• 74.2 of spending and tax breaks would go out by
  the end of FY 2010
• Will create/save 3-4 million jobs
• Major focuses on energy, science and technology,
  infrastructure, healthcare, and education

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Recovery Act

• State Stabilization Fund
• 53.6 billion total funding
• 5.282 off the top to DOE
• 48.3 distributed to states
• 81.8 (39.5 billion) for education
• Restoring state budget cuts
• Subgrants to LEAs
• 18.2 (8.8 billion) for other government services

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Recovery Act

• State Stabilization Fund
• Allowable secondary uses
• Perkins, IDEA, NCLB, Adult Ed and school
  modernization
• Allowable postsecondary uses
• education and general expenditures including
  modernization

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Recovery Act

• Education Funding
• Total 130 billion
• IDEA 12.2 billion
• Title I of NCLB 13 billion
• Education Technology 650 million
• Pell Grants Raised to 5,350 for 2009-10
• Work Study 200 million

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Recovery Act

• Employment and Training Funding
• Total funding of 3.95 billion including
• 500 million - adult employment and training
  activities
• 1.2 billion - youth activities, including summer
  employment programs for youth
• 1.25 - dislocated worker employment and training
  activities

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Recovery Act

• 200 million - dislocated workers assistance
  national reserve
• 50 million - YouthBuild activities
• 750 million - competitive grants for worker
  training and placement in high growth and
  emerging industry sectors
• 500 million set aside for training in careers in
  energy efficiency and renewable energy
• Priority for remaining funds is health care sector

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Recovery Act

• 500 million to address health professions
  workforce shortages
• 100 million within the Electricity Delivery and
  Energy Reliability Program for worker training
  activities

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Recovery Act Action Needed

• Begin working with local district or
  institutional fiscal decision makers now
• Think about projects that can
• be implemented quickly
• require minimal long-term funding
• have a direct impact on student achievement
• Look closely at how funding for other federal
  programs might benefit CTE

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FY 2010 Appropriations

• President released budget outline 2/26/09
• Overall blueprint no programmatic allocations
• Modest increases for Departments of Education and
  Labor
• Strong focus on job training

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FY 2010 Action Needed

• Ask your Members of Congress to support 1.4
  billion for the Perkins Act
• Use ACTE/AACC/NASDCTEc joint funding request
• Pay particular attention to this issue with
  appropriators

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Authorization versus Appropriation

• Authorization The level of money allowed for a
  program (Established by authorizing committee)
• Appropriation The actual funding disbursed from
  the federal treasury (Approved by appropriations
  committee)

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Senate AuthorizingCommittee Leadership

• Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
  Committee
• Chair Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
• Ranking Minority Member Michael Enzi (R-WY)
• Senate Employment and Workplace Safety
  Subcommittee
• Chair Patty Murray (D-WA)
• Ranking Minority Member Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
• Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families
• Chair Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
• Ranking Minority Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

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House AuthorizingCommittee Leadership

• House Education and Labor Committee
• Chair George Miller (D-CA)
• Ranking Minority Member Howard Buck McKeon
  (R-CA)
• House Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and
  Competitiveness Subcommittee
• Chair Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
• Ranking Minority Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY)
• House Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary
  Education Subcommittee
• Chair Dale Kildee (D-MI)
• Ranking Minority Member Michael Castle (R-DE)

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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

• Status
• Largest federal elementary/secondary bill
• Originally due to be reauthorized in 2007
• Work stalled in the 110th Congress
• New regulations issued from U.S. Education
  Department in late 2008
• High School Reform part of the discussion

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NCLB

• Obama Administration
• Reform and fund the law
• Support high quality schools including charters
• Make math and science a national priority
• Address the dropout crisis
• Expand after-school opportunities
• Improve secondary-postsecondary linkages
• Provide teacher improvement and support

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NCLB Priorities

• Integrate academic and technical education to
  better engage and prepare students for their
  futures
• Support comprehensive guidance and career
  development strategies to assist students in
  determining clear pathways to postsecondary and
  workforce goals

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NCLB Priorities

• Increase the focus on secondary school completion
  through comprehensive dropout prevention and
  reentry strategies
• Ensure that highly effective educators are
  supported, and available across the curriculum in
  all schools

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NCLB Priorities

• Improve Adequate Yearly Progress and
  accountability provisions to more accurately
  reflect student learning progress
• Provide support and incentives for innovation,
  replication and improvement

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Dropout PreventionPriorities

• Incentives for schools to register drop in
  students
• Consistent definition of dropout
• RD for flexible re-entry and completion programs
• Flexibility for reporting extended time
  graduation rates
• Additional emphasis on secondary school
  completion rates in AYP
• Perkins and WIA funding

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NCLB/Dropout Action Needed

• Highlight data and stories that exemplify CTE
  relevancy as a way to address dropouts
• Follow up with a link/copy of ACTEs issue brief
  on dropout prevention and recovery
• Emphasize CTEs capacity to link secondary and
  postsecondary education
• Provide examples of CTE STEM connections

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Workforce Investment Act (WIA)

• Status
• One stop delivery system of multiple employment
  services, job training and education
• Over 10 years since the bill was reauthorized
• Bill died in 109th Congress and little action in
  the 110th Congress
• Listening session held in late 2008 and two
  hearings held this year
• WIA included in stimulus

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WIA Priorities

• One-stop infrastructure funding
• Create a separate line for infrastructure funding
• Oppose proposals to require WIA partners fund
  (including Perkins) to fund one-stop
  infrastructure
• Funding
• Oppose combining funding for youth, adults,
  dislocated workers, and the Employment Service

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WIA Priorities

• Training
• Increase overall access to training opportunities
• Eliminate WIAs sequences of services
  provisions, which delay access to training
• Participants should be able to access training
  immediately
• Youth
• Maintain current focus on serving in-school youth
• Maintain WIA youth funding

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Energy Sustainability

• We will double this nation's supply of renewable
  energy in the next three years
• President Barack Obama
• February 24, 2009

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Energy Sustainability Priorities

• Develop and fund programs which address need for
  high-wage, high demand careers
• Train educators about new sustainable/green
  technologies
• Modernize and upgrade CTE facilities and
  equipment
• Support infusion of energy sustainability
  concepts throughout curriculum

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Additional Issues

• Perkins
• Higher Education Act
• Social Security GPO/WEP Repeal

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GO GET EM! TAKE THE HILL!!
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