American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA

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American Recoveryand Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
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Unprecedented Opportunity!

• In a global economy where the most valuable
  skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good
  education is no longer just a pathway to
  opportunity - it is a prerequisite. The countries
  that out-teach us today will out-compete us
  tomorrow.
• - President Barack Obama, 2/24/09

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Unprecedented Opportunity!

• Over 100 billion education investment
• Historic opportunity to stimulate economy and
  improve education
• Success depends on leadership, judgment,
  coordination, and communication

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ARRA Guiding Principles

• Spend quickly to save and create jobs
• Advance effective reforms
• Ensure transparency and accountability
• Thoughtfully invest one-time funds

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Funding and Eligibility

• Wisconsin ARRA Funding for Title I, Part A
  147,729,443
• A Title I district must have 5 poverty to be
  eligible for ARRA funds.
• Poverty rate formula based on
• annual adjustment (2007) of the most recent
  census (2000) and non-census data
• Final ARRA Allocations to LEAs End of April

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Rules and Regulations

• comparability
• supplement / supplant
• maintenance of effort
• consultation with private schools
• carry-over (possible waivers)
• parent involvement
• needs assessment and program plan design
• sanctions and support for schools identified for
  improvement (SIFI).

• reporting
• documentation
• transparency
• collaboration with other funding sources, i.e.,
  IDEA, Title II-D
• large one time increase in funds

• What's the Same?

• Whats different?

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Reporting

• Districts will be required to submit quarterly
  reports on expenditures of ARRA funds and program
  outcomes.
• Reports will include
• total amount of recovery funds received
• amount of recovery funds expended or obligated
• a detailed list of all projects or activities,
  including name of the project or activity
  description of the project or activity
  evaluation of the completion status estimate
  of the number of jobs created number of jobs
  retained by the project or activity

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Timeline

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• February 17, 2009 - ARRA of 2009 signed into law
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• End of April, 2009 ARRA funding available
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• September 30, 2010 - 85 of ARRA funds obligated
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• Feb. 17, 2009 Sept. 30, 2011 - ARRA window
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• September 30, 2011 All funds must be obligated
• All final
  claims submitted

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ARRA Approach to Planning

• Will the proposed use of ARRA funds
• Drive results for students?
• Increase capacity?
• Accelerate reform?
• Avoid the cliff and improve productivity?
• Track results?

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Potential Uses of ARRA Funds

• Consistent with existing Title I guidelines
• Targeted Assistance Examples
• Schoolwide Program Examples
• Collaborative Examples

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Examples of Potential Uses

• Establishing a system for identifying and
  training highly effective teachers to serve as
  instructional leaders in Title I schoolwide
  programs and modifying the school schedule to
  allow for collaboration among the instructional
  staff
• Establishing intensive, year-long teacher
  training for all teachers and the principal in a
  Title I elementary school in corrective action or
  restructuring status in order to train teachers
  to use a new reading curriculum that aggressively
  works on improving students oral language skills
  and vocabulary or, in some other way, builds
  teachers capacity to address academic
  achievement problems

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Examples of Potential Uses

• Strengthen and expand early childhood education
  by providing resources to align a district-wide
  Title I pre-K program with state early learning
  standards and state content standards for grades
  K3 and, if there is a plan for sustainability
  beyond 201011, expanding high-quality Title I
  pre-K programs to larger numbers of young
  children

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Examples of Potential Uses

• Providing new opportunities for Title I
  schoolwide programs for secondary school students
  to use high-quality, online courseware as
  supplemental learning materials for meeting
  mathematics and science requirements
• Using longitudinal data systems to drive
  continuous improvement efforts focused on
  improving achievement in Title I schools
• Providing professional development to teachers in
  Title I targeted assistance programs on the use
  of data to inform and improve instruction for
  Title I-eligible students

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Examples of Potential Uses

• Using reading or mathematics coaches to provide
  professional development to teachers in Title I
  targeted assistance programs
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• Establishing or expanding fiscally sustainable
  extended learning opportunities for Title
  I-eligible students in targeted assistance
  programs, including activities provided before
  school, after school, during the summer, or over
  an extended school year.

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More Information

• DPI Title I Education Consultants
  http//dpi.wi.gov/titleone/aspx/t1consultants.aspx
  
• ARRA DPI website http//www.dpi.wi.gov/recovery/in
  dex.html
• Federal Transparency
• http//www.recovery.gov/
• State of Wisconsin Transparency
• http//www.recovery.wisconsin.gov/
• Presentations available on ESEA website
  http//dpi.wi.gov/esea/index.html