Stakeholder Briefing

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Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request

• Stakeholder Briefing

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By 2020, America will once again havethe
highest proportion of college graduates in the
world.

• President Barack Obama

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Progress results for students

• The highest high school graduation rate in decades

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Progress results for students

• More students attending college on Pell grants

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Progress results for students

• More Hispanic students attending college

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Progress results for students

• 1.1 Million fewer students attending dropout
  factories

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Our unfinished task

• Many low-income students fail to complete high
  school

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Our unfinished task

• Only 29 of low-income students go to college

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Our unfinished task

• Only 9 of low-income students complete college

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Our unfinished task

• Disparities in high school graduation

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High-quality preschool

• The united states ranks 28th in the world in
  enrollment

Source OECD, Education at a Glance 2012 OECD
Indicators
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High-quality preschool

• The united states ranks 25th in public funding
  for early learning

Source OECD, Education at a Glance 2012 OECD
Indicators
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The Presidents FY 2014 Budget

• The Presidents FY 2014 budget request will keep
  us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the
  coming years.
• The budget balances increases in education
  funding with savings in other areas of the
  budget.
• The discretionary budget for Education is 71
  billion, a 3 billion increase over FY 2013
  (pre-sequester).
• The budget also includes mandatory funds for
  Preschool for All (75 billion over 10 years),
  Presidential Teaching Fellows (190 million) and
  RESPECT (5 billion).

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Investing in Education

• 6 Priorities Across the Cradle to Career Continuum

• High Quality Preschool
• Furthering the K-12 Reform Agenda
• College Affordability and Quality
• School Safety
• Ladders of Opportunity
• Protecting Formula Programs for At-Risk
  Populations

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High Quality Preschool

• 75 billion over 10 years in mandatory funds to
  provide high-quality preschool to all children
  from low and moderate income families
• States would assume greater responsibility for
  the administration and oversight of preschool
  programs, building on other state reforms
  supported by programs such as the Early Learning
  Challenge.
• 750 million in discretionary funds for Preschool
  Development Grants to states to strengthen their
  capacity to provide high-quality preschool to all
  four-year-old children so that they will be
  prepared to leverage the mandatory funds

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CONTINUUM OF EARLY LEARNING

• ED and HHS partnership

• ED is partnering with HHS to support the
  Presidents Early Learning Initiative, which also
  includes
• Early Head Start Child Care Partnerships (1.4
  billion) Competitive grants to provide
  high-quality child care that is full-day and
  full-year to meet the needs of working families
• Voluntary home visiting services (15 billion
  over 10 years)
• ED and HHS will continue to administer the Race
  to the Top Early Learning Challenge program to
  support States in the implementation of early
  learning systems reform across the Nation.

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the K-12 Reform Agenda

• Deepening and extending strategic reforms

• The Presidents budget strengthens investments in
  the following K-12 reform areas
• College and Career Readiness Focus on
  Redesigning High Schools
• Teachers and Leaders
• STEM
• School Turnaround
• Data
• Innovation
• Assessments

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Student engagement

• Most students are engaged early but disengage
  in high school

Source Gallup, 2012 Gallup Student Poll
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K-12 Reform

• College and career readiness

• 300 million for High School Redesign Grants to
  partnerships among districts, colleges,
  businesses and non-profits
• These partnerships will work towards the goal of
  ensuring that all participating students graduate
  from high school with college credit and
  career-related experience.
• 42 million to establish and expand
  dual-enrollment programs for high school students
  and adult learners
• 1.1 billion to support the reauthorization of
  the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Program
  to improve alignment with workforce demands,
  strengthen linkages to postsecondary education,
  and promote innovation and reform

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K-12 Reform Teachers and leaders

• Great teachers matter

Source The New Teacher Project, The
Irreplaceables (2012).
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K-12 Reform Teachers and Leaders

• 5 billion in mandatory funds for RESPECT grants
  to support States and districts that commit to
  pursuing bold reforms at every stage of the
  teaching profession
• 25 set-aside within Effective Teachers and
  Leaders State Grants to expand high-quality
  teacher preparation programs, train outstanding
  leaders to turn around the lowest performing
  schools, and support state activities to enhance
  the teaching profession
• 98 million in the School Leadership Grant
  Program, more than triple the current investment,
  to support the development of evidence-based and
  large scale professional development programs for
  current school leaders
• 400 million for the Teacher and Leader
  Innovation Fund to support innovative approaches
  to improving educator effectiveness in high-need
  schools
• 190 million in mandatory funds for Presidential
  Teaching Fellows to provide scholarships to
  students attending top-tier teacher preparation
  programs who commit to teaching in high-need
  schools and subjects

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K-12 Reform STEM

• Predicted growth of stem occupations

Source Chairmans staff of the Joint Economic
Committee based on data from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
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K-12 Reform STEM

• 150 million for competitive grants to STEM
  Innovation Networks. Grants would be awarded to
  consortia of districts, colleges and other
  regional partners to improve STEM education in
  their communities, such as by
• Increasing student engagement in the STEM
  subjects, or
• Improving STEM teacher preparation and
  professional development
• 35 million to pilot a STEM Master Teacher Corps
• 80 million for competitive grants to recruit and
  train effective STEM teachers for high-need
  schools and further the Presidents 100K in 10
  goal

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K-12 Reform turnaround and data

• 659 million for School Turnaround, including a
  new 125 million investment in
• Building district capacity to reform the lowest
  performing schools
• Expanding the school turnaround service corps
• 85 million, a 47 million increase, for State
  Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) to improve state
  data systems by strengthening linkages between
  early learning, K-12, higher education, and
  workforce data

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K-12 Reform innovation and assessments

• 215 million for Investing in Innovation (i3) to
  develop, evaluate and scale up evidenced-based
  practices to improve student achievement
• The Department would set aside part of the funds
  for ARPA-ED to support the development of
  breakthrough learning technologies.
• 389 million for the Assessing Student
  Achievement Program to support states and
  districts with their transition to college-and
  career-ready standards and assessments
• These funds can be used for the education
  technology needed to implement computer-based
  assessments.

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college completion

• We used to be 1. we are now 14.

Source OECD, Education at a Glance 2012 OECD
Indicators.
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Rising college costs
Source NCES, Digest of Education Statistics 2012.
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College affordability and quality

• Maintain Federal investments
• 5,785 maximum Pell grant to over nine million
  students
• Long-term stability for student loan interest
  rates
• Expand Pay as You Earn
• Drive systemic reform at the State level
• 1 billion for Race to the Top College
  Affordability and Completion to incentivize
  states to modernize funding policies, make it
  easier for students to access and complete
  college, encourage innovation
• Support Institutional innovation and reward good
  actors
• 260 million for First in the World for
  innovative practices to increase college access
  and success and validate new learning models
• Reform Campus-Based Aid to prevent the expiration
  of Perkins Loans and reward colleges for serving
  low-income students well, keeping costs
  reasonable, and providing good value
• Empower Students and Families with information
  through a college scorecard and financial aid
  shopping sheet

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College Access and Completion

• Additional investments
• Supports for low-income students
• 840 million for Federal TRIO programs
• 302 million for GEAR UP
• Minority Serving Institutions
• Aid for Institutional Development programs 431
  million discretionary and 167 million in
  mandatory funding
• Aid for Hispanic-Serving Institutions programs
  109 million discretionary and 112 million in
  mandatory funding

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School safety

• The Department of Educations proposals are part
  of a broader, administration-wide plan to protect
  our children and communities from gun violence.
•  The education budget includes  
• 30 million for Emergency Management Grants to
  states to help schools develop and implement high
  quality emergency management plans
• 50 million for School Climate Grants to help
  8,000 schools create safer and more nurturing
  school climates
• 25 million for Project Prevent Grants to help
  schools address pervasive violence
• Investments in other agencies include
• 150 million for Comprehensive School Safety
  Grants (DOJ) to help schools hire safety
  personnel, including mental health professionals,
  and 55 million for Project Aware (HHS) to help
  identify mental illness early and refer young
  people to treatment

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Ladders of opportunity

• President Obama has laid out an ambitious new
  plan to ensure that there are ladders of
  opportunity for families to make it to the
  middle class.
• The Presidents budget includes several
  investments in education that are critical to
  this plan, including
• 300 million to significantly expand the Promise
  Neighborhoods initiative
• 300 million for High School Redesign
• 75 billion for Preschool for All
• The Department is also working with agencies
  across the government to establish Promise
  Zones, which will transform high-poverty
  communities into places of opportunity that can
  attract private investment, improve education,
  and create jobs.

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Protecting formula programs and supporting
student success

• Protecting Formula Programs for At Risk
  Populations
• College- and Career-Ready Students (Title I)
  14.5 billion
• IDEA 463 million a 20 million increase for
  Part C for Infants and Families, 11.6 billion
  for Part B Grants to States, and 373 million for
  Preschool Grants
• 732 million for English Learner Education
• Maintained funding for Migrant Students,
  Neglected and Delinquent Children and Youth,
  Homeless Children and Youth, Indian Education,
  Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, and Rural
  Education programs
• Supporting Student Success
• 21st Century Community Learning Centers 1.25
  billion, a 100 million increase, to support
  afterschool and expanded learning time
  initiatives
• Disconnected Youth 15 million for innovative
  approaches to educating disconnected youth

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We know that education is everything to our
childrens future. We know that they will no
longer just compete for good jobs with children
from Indiana, but children from India and China
and all over the world.

• President Barack Obama

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