American Recovery and Reinvestment Act K12 Agenda

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American Recovery and Reinvestment ActK-12
Agenda

Office of the Deputy Secretary October 2009
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Investment in Education 100 billion in direct
education spending over the next two years
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Jobs ReportingIn late October each state will
report its official number of jobs saved or
created with Recovery Act dollars, as well as any
education programs that were supported by this
funding.
ARRA Saving and Creating Education Jobs
U.S. Department of Education Obligation of ARRA
Dollars as of September 18th Over 67 Billion
This funding supports approximately 255,000
education jobs across the country - (mostly
full-time certified teachers).
Since launch of the Recovery Act, there have been
over a thousand newspaper articles nationwide
that report the positive impact of these dollars
for education.
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Reforming Americas Education System
Reforming Americas Schools
Higher Education
K - 12
Early Learning

Standards Assessments
Effective Teachers and Leaders
Turning Around Struggling Schools
Data Systems
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K-12 Reform PrioritiesAmerican Recovery
Reinvestment Act
Reforming Americas Schools
K - 12
Effective Teachers and Leaders
Standards Assessments
State Fiscal Stabilization Fund 48.6 billion
Race to the Top Other New Grants 9.7 billion
Turning Around Struggling Schools


Data Systems
Title I, IDEA Other Existing Formula
Grants 26 billion
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Includes regular FY 09 appropriations
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ARRA Funding for Existing Formula Grants 26
Billion
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Race to the Top and Other Grants 9.7 Billion
State Fiscal Stabilization Fund 48.6 Billion
Funding for Existing Formula Grants 26 Billion

Standards Assessments
Effective Teachers and Leaders
Turning Around Struggling
Schools

Data Systems
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State Fiscal Stabilization Fund Phase Two12.6
Billion

• Type of Grant Formula
• Grantee Governors Office
• Distribution The office of the governor
  distributes the funds to school districts and
  public institutions of higher education (the
  funds are sub grants to the LEAs through the
  governors office)
• Purpose To help states retain and hire
  teachers, augment or restore current budgets
  and continue laying the foundation for the
  significant reforms that are required by Race
  to the Top and the other new grant programs
• To provide transparency across all states
  regarding the status of their education reform
  efforts which will foster healthy competition and
  a vibrant exchange of ideas (also to provide
  transparency of information to community
  stakeholders such as parents that can be used to
  hold schools accountable for reform)
• Status The public comment phase for the State
  Fiscal Stabilization Fund Phase Two closed on
  August 28th applications will be published this
  Fall and due approximately 30 days later.
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Race to the Top
4.35 Billion
Type of Grant Competitive Grantee State
Educational Agencies with at least 50 of the
award provided to LEAs based upon relative
shares of funding under Part A of Title I
Purpose To reward states that create
conditions for education innovation and reform
and implement ambitious plans in the four core
ARRA education reform areas in order to achieve
significant improvement in student outcomes
Status The public comment phase for Race to
the Top closed on August 28th and ED received
over 1100 comments.  The Final Notice and
application package expected to be published
late this fall and applications will be due 2
months later. 
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Title I School Improvement Grants
3.5 Billion
Type of Grant Formula to States discretionary
to school districts Grantees All states plus
Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, which
make sub grants to school districts Purpose
To accelerate efforts throughout the nation to
close the gap in student achievement To
focus resources on the lowest-achieving schools
and ensure that comprehensive and aggressive
reforms are carried out NOTE There will be an
effort to look at secondary schools (including a
high schools with extremely high drop-out
rates).  In the past these funds have not been
directed to Title-I eligible secondary
schools (particularly high schools) that most
need the help.  Status The public comment
phase for the Student Improvement Grants closed
on September 25th and those applications will
be available this Fall and due mid-winter .
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Investing in Innovation
650 Million

• Type of Grant Competitive
• Grantee Local educational agencies (LEAs) ,
  including charter school LEAs), and non-profit
  organizations working in collaboration with one
  or more LEAs or a consortium of schools.
• Purpose To identify and promote specific
  educational practices with proven success in
  improving student achievement
• To support the development, implementation,
  replication, and evaluation of promising
  innovative practices
• The practices could be -- a teacher evaluation
  system, a math curriculum, a principal
  recruitment initiative, or extended school-year
  program, etc.  Any exciting new K-12 initiative
  with proven results may be the type of
  innovation we will want to recognize and
  promote. 
• Status The notice for public comment will be
  published this fall and applications will be
  available early next year

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Education Technology
650 Million
Type of Grant Formula to States Grantee
States can make formula and competitive sub
grants to eligible school districts. Purpose
To improve student academic achievement, teacher
training, and curriculum through the use of
technology in schools, and ensure that every
student is technologically literate by the end of
eighth grade. To support innovative uses of
technology resources and systems integrated
with curriculum, professional development and
instruction. Status The guidance has been
published and funds have been obligated to the
50 states, Puerto Rico and DC (funds will also
be obligated to the outlying areas and the
Bureau of Indian Education). States are in
the process of administering sub grant awards.
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Teacher Investment Fund
300 Million
Type of Grant Competitive Grantee School
Districts, States, and non-profits organizations
will be the grantees Purpose To encourage
school systems to establish performance-based
teacher and principal compensation systems that
sustain student achievement gains and provide
teachers and principals in high-need schools with
differentiated levels of compensation based on
student achievement gains To examine and
develop best practices for conducting classroom
evaluations and incorporating them into
compensation systems To reward teachers and
principals in high-need schools for increases in
student achievement and increase the number of
instructors who teach hard-to-staff subjects
(math, science, special education, and English as
a second language) in high-need
schools Status The notice of proposed
priorities will be published for comments this
fall.  The notice inviting applications will
be published this winter and applications will
be due 60 days after the notice publishes.
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Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
650 Million
Type of Grant Discretionary Grantee
States Purpose To ensure transparency and
providing high quality consistent and more
timely information To ensure states that
successfully compete have access to resources
to create comprehensive P-20 systems that
permit the generation and use of accurate and
timely data at all levels of the education
system To support the development of
standard data structures, data formats, and
data definitions to maximize interoperability
among agencies and institutions within the
state and between states Requirements Data
systems must have the capacity to link preschool,
K-12, and postsecondary education as well as
workforce data and must include the 12 elements
prescribed by the America COMPETES
Act. Status Applications have been published
and are due November 19th
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State and District Coordination
Who Applies
State
District
Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
State
250 million
Teacher Incentive Fund
95 of ARRA Grants Explicitly Require SEA LEA
Coordination
300 million
95 Explicitly Requires SEA LEA Coordination
Race to the Top
Both
Who Spends
4.35 billion
Investing in Innovation Fund
SFSF Phase Two
School Improvement Grants
District
650 million
3.5 billion
Teacher Incentive Fund
Ed Tech
12.6 billion
650 million
300 million
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ARRA Strategic Planning Goals

• Opportunities
• Create Lasting Reforms
• Break Down Silos at State and Local Levels
• Break Down Silos between Title I IDEA directors
  with budget managers and other program directors
• Establish models of Community Engagement
  Transparency
• Improve Capacity for Grant Management in SEAs and
  LEAs
• Core Actions
• Develop overarching vision for school reform at
  the state and local levels as a focal point
  during the planning, application and
  implementation phases for each of the ARRA
  funding streams
• Convene state and local education officials and
  leaders throughout the grant planning,
  application and implementation process
• Share information within and between LEAs and
  SEAs about each ARRA grant

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Coordination

• State School Chiefs
• CFOs and Budget Directors
• Academic Officers
• Title I, II, III and IDEA Directors
• Superintendents
• Governors Staff
• State Auditors
• School Boards Principals
• Community Groups
• Directors of Federal Programs
• State Directors of vocational rehabilitation and
  independent living programs

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ARRA Strategic Planning Activities
ARRA Strategic Planning Activities
ARRA Strategic Planning Activities
ARRA Strategic Planning Activities
LEA Develops Overall District Reform Plan
Contributes to SEA Reform Plan In collaboration
with SEA, business leaders, parents, teachers,
and community partners, each LEA assesses their
strengths and weakness in terms of
content/curriculum, human capital, school
environment, and community involvement. Then,
together, map out overall plans that incorporate
the four reform priorities at the core of all
ARRA grants. SEA builds upon this LEA process to
create state-level reform plan.
October November December
LEA planning and applying to SEA for Education
Technology (Ed Tech) grants
LEA submits plans for Title I and IDEA ARRA funds
to SEA -- SEA approves and distributes
Partnerships submit TQP applications to ED (due
10/6)
SEA applies for SFSF Phase Two grant (due early
Nov)
SEA applies to ED for SLDS grant (due Nov. 19th)
SEA works on SIG application (due end of 2009)
SEA works with LEAs on RTT application (due
early 2010)

• Action Steps
• State and local Title I and IDEA directors, LEA
  data managers, and state SLDS project directors
  meet to identify opportunities to use district
  data models at state level.
• TQP applicants brief local Title I and IDEA
  directors on submissions identify links to
  other ARRA grants
• SEA briefs all LEAs on its SFSF Phase Two
  application which is the baseline for other ARRA
  grants
• SEA holds Ed Tech Summit with Title I and IDEA
  state and local directors to identify ways to
  coordinate and complement funding

• Action Steps
• SEAs and LEAs review RTT and SIG applications
  together to outline an approach that builds on
  SFSF Phase Two other ARRA funding.
• SLDS project directors, Ed Tech applicants, and
  state and local Title I and IDEA directors are
  briefed on RTT and SIG applications to identify
  links.
• SEAs meet with counterparts from other states to
  exchange reform ideas, best practices, and
  opportunities to form consortia.
• SEAs review applications and Use of Funds
  Guidance for TQP, SFSF Phase Two, SLDS, Ed Tech,
  and SIG

• Action Steps
• LEA leaders meet with local Title I and IDEA
  directors to identify which of the four ARRA
  reform priorities (assurances) are most
  appropriate for this funding
• Title I and IDEA state and local directors
  receive briefings on all other ARRA funding
  sources.
• Title I and IDEA directors review each others
  Use of Funds Guidance and identify possible ways
  to complement each others funding of programs in
  one or more of the reform areas.
• Title I and IDEA directors submit spending plans
  that complement each other and take into
  consideration the forthcoming ARRA grants that
  share the same reform priorities.

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In a world where countries that out-educate us
today will out-compete us tomorrow, the future
belongs to the nation that best educates its
people. --President Barack Obama