Division of Student Support Programs

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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)An Overview
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Resources

• Policy Guidance
• NCLB Brochures
• www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb/
• nclb_at_tea.state.tx.us

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Enacted January 8, 2002
Enacted January 8, 2002
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Overview of NCLB

• Increase Accountability for Student Performance
• Focus on What Works
• Reduce Bureaucracy and Increase Flexibility
• Empower Parents

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Increase Accountability for Student Performance
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Increase Accountability for Student Performance

• State Standards
• Assessment System
• Accountability System
• Adequate Yearly Progress
• School Improvement

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Standards

• Academic Standards
• Coherent, rigorous content of what children are
  expected to know and be able to do
• Encourage the teaching of advanced skills

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Standards

• Student Academic Achievement Standards
• Aligned to State Academic Standards
• Includes a minimum of three levels of achievement
  (basic, proficient, and advanced)

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Assessment System

• Aligned to State standards
• Measures what children should be able to do

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Assessment System

• Reading and Mathematicsassess annually in
  Grades 3-8, and in high school
• Scienceby 2007-08, at least in one grade in
  Grades 3-5, Grades 6-9, and Grades 10-12

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Accountability System

• Criteria
• Based on State academic standards and State
  assessments
• Include sanctions and rewards
• Adequate Yearly Progress
• Single system for all public schools

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Adequate Yearly Progress
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AYP Targets

• Academic Performance
• 95 participation in state assessments
• Other Indicator
• 70 Graduation Rate
• 90 Attendance Rate

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School Improvement

• Failing to meet AYP for two consecutive years
  identifies the campus for School Improvement.
• Five levels of School Improvement.
• Meeting AYP for two consecutive years exits the
  campus from School Improvement status.

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Five Levels of School Improvement

• Year 1School Choice/Transportation
• Year 2Supplemental Services
• Year 3Corrective Action
• Year 4Restructuring
• Year 5Alternative Governance

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Year 1 Campus

• Revise Plan within 3 months for 2 year-period
• Provide School Choice Option
• Provide Transportation for School Choice Option

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Year 2 Campus

• Continue Year 1 interventions
• Provide Supplemental Educational Services

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Year 3 Campus

• Continue Year 1 and Year 2 interventions
• Take corrective action
• Publish and disseminate information regarding
  corrective action

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Year 4 Campus

• Continue Year 1 and Year 2 interventions
• Continue corrective action
• Develop plan for restructuring

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Year 5 Campus

• Implement alternative governance from
  restructuring plan

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LEA Improvement

• Year 1Revise District Improvement Plan
• Year 2Implement the revised District
  Improvement Plan
• Year 3Take corrective action

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Focus on What Works
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Focus on What Works

• Scientifically Based Research
• High-Quality Teachers
• Paraprofessional Qualifications

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Scientifically Based Research

• Research that involves the application of
  rigorous, systematic and objective procedures to
  obtain reliable and valuable knowledge relevant
  to education activities and programs.
• NCLB requires six criteria be met to be
  scientifically based.

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Highly Qualified Teachers

• A teacher meets NCLB definition if the teacher
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• Full State Certification (a license to teach in
  the state), and a
• Bachelors Degree (or higher), and has
• Demonstrated Competency

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When? Who?

• End of SY 2005-2006All teachers in core
  academic subject areas
• When Hirednew Title I, Part A Teachers
• Schoolwide CampusAll teachers in core academic
  subject areas
• Targeted Assistance CampusAll teachers whose
  salary is paid in whole or in part with Title I,
  Part A funds

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Core Academic Subjects

• English
• reading or language arts
• mathematics
• science
• foreign languages

• civics and government
• economics
• arts
• history
• geography

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Title I, Part AParaprofessional Qualifications

• Any paraprofessional with instructional duties
  hired after January 8, 2002, and working in a
  Title I, Part A program must have a high school
  diploma or its recognized equivalent
• and

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Title I, Part AParaprofessional Qualifications

• 2 years of study at institution of higher
  education OR
• Associates (or higher) degree OR
• Meet a rigorous standard of quality and can
  demonstrate, through a formal state or local
  academic assessment (continued)

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Paraprofessional Qualifications
(State or Local Assessment) of

• Knowledge of, and the ability to assist in
  instructing, in reading, writing, and
  mathematics or
• Knowledge of, and the ability to assist in
  instructing, reading readiness, writing
  readiness, and mathematics readiness, as
  appropriate.

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Title I, Part AParaprofessional Qualifications

• Paraprofessionals with instructional duties hired
  before January 8, 2002, must satisfy the
  requirements within 4 years (January 8, 2006).

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Paraprofessional Qualifications

• Exceptions
• Paraprofessional who is proficient in English and
  a language other than English who provides
  services by acting as a translator or
• Paraprofessional whose duties consist solely of
  conducting Title I, Part A parental involvement
  activities.

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Title I, Part APrincipal Certification

• Written
• Annual
• Compliant with Section 1119
• Available to general public for review

• Copies maintained
• Each Title I, Part A campus and
• LEA central office.

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Reduce Bureaucracy and Increase Flexibility
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Reduce Bureaucracy and Increase Flexibility

• Ed-Flex
• State Flex Local Flex Demonstration Programs
• Funding Transferability

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Ed-Flex

• Commissioner has authority to waive federal
  requirements that impede student performance
• NCLB increased the number of programs covered by
  Ed-Flex
• Texas has Ed-Flex authority through January 2006

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State-Flex/Local Flex

• Demonstration Programs
• Maximum 7 states and 150 LEAs nationwide
• Flexibility in the use of identified program
  funds
• Increased accountability and performance
  agreements

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Funding Transferability

• All LEAs not identified for improvement may
  transfer 50 of their allocations under selected
  programs.
• LEAs in improvement may transfer 30.
• LEAs in corrective action are not eligible.

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Empower Parents
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Empower Parents

• LEA/Campus Responsibilities
• Parent Notifications
• Parents Right-to-Know

• School Safety Choice Option
• School Improvement
• School Choice Option
• Supplemental Educational Services

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LEAs Written Policy Requirements

• Development
• Capacity building of schools and parents
• Annual evaluation of effectiveness

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Campuss Written Policy Requirements

• Development
• School-parent compacts
• Capacity building

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LEA and Campus Responsibilities
Building Capacity through-

• Assistance, materials and training to parents
• Education of teachers, principals, and other
  staff
• Information in format and language parent can
  understand

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Parent Notification

• A school receiving Title I, Part A funds must
  provide each individual parent
• the childs level of achievement in each state
  academic assessment, and
• timely notice if the child has been assigned or
  taught for 4 or more consecutive weeks by a
  teacher who is not highly qualified.

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Notification Requirements
LEAs implementing Title III programs must
implement an effective means of outreach to
parents of LEP students

• informing how parents can be involved in
  education and assist child in obtaining English
  proficiency and meeting high standards, and
• providing opportunities for meetings.

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Notification Requirements
If Title I, Part A or Title III funds are used to
provide a language instruction program for LEP
students, parents of LEP students must be
notified not later than 30 days after beginning
of school
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Notification Requirements

• reasons for identification as LEP and need for
  placement,
• childs level of English proficiency,
• programs methods of instruction ,
• how program will meet strengths and needs of
  child and help child learn English and meet
  standards,
• specific exit requirements,
• if disability, how program meets IEP, and
• written guidance detailing parents right to
  remove, decline, or choose another program or
  method.

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Parents Right-to-Know
Parents of students attending Title I, Part A
campuses must be notified that they may request
information regarding professional qualifications
of their childs classroom teachers.
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School Safety Choice Option

• Parent may ask to transfer student if the
  student
• Attends a school identified as persistently
  dangerous
• Has been a victim of a violent crime on campus

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Parent Consultation

• Title I, Part Ause of parent involvement funds
• Title II, Part Aprogram planning and application
  development
• Title IV, Part Aprogram planning, application
  development, program evaluation
• Title V, Part Aprogram planning, design, and
  implementation

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nclb_at_tea.state.tx.us
For additional information, contact the Division
of NCLB Program Coordination at
TEA.www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb/