Federal Policy Update

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Federal Policy Update

• Alisha Hyslop
• Assistant Director of Public Policy
• Association for Career Technical Education

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Overview

• Budget and Appropriations
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• Workforce Investment Act
• Data Quality Issues
• Perkins

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Budget and Appropriations
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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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FY 2012 Budget

• Level funding for Perkins based on last years
  level (1.1 billion)
• .189 cut to all education, workforce, labor and
  health programs
• Additional 1.5 cut to advance appropriations
  was restored
• Total education cut by 233 million
• Most workforce programs level-funded

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FY 2013 Presidents Budget

• 1.1 billion level funding for Perkins!
• 1 billion new career academies initiative
• 8 billion Community College to Career Fund
• 4 billion to Department of Education
• 4 billion to Department of Labor
• 1.047 trillion budget cap translates to
  4 billion increase for all discretionary
  programs

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FY 2013 House (Ryan) Budget

• Cuts overall spending by 5.3 trillion over 10
  years
• Sets spending cap at 1.028 trillion, 19 billion
  below the 1.047 trillion spending cap agreed to
  in the August 2011 debt limit deal
• A 9.5 billion cut below the current baseline for
  Labor-Health and Human Services and Education
• Some Republicans dont think the bill goes far
  enough
• Not binding, but sets the budget limits that
  appropriators can spend

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FY 2013 Senate Budget

• The Budget Committee marked up a version of the
  Simpson-Bowles Commission debt reduction plan
• Proposal will see little action, no votes are
  expected on this resolution in either the budget
  committee or on the Senate floor
• The Senate is using the spending cap from debt
  limit deal at 1.047 trillion
• Five other budget bills to see votes today

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House and Senate Appropriations

• Labor-Health and Human Services and Education
  allocations are 157 billion in the Senate and
  150 in the House
• The 7 billion difference between House and
  Senate will cause problems for appropriators
• Subcommittees will produce appropriations bills
  in the coming months
• June markup expected in Senate July in House

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FY 2013 Presidents Budget
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Looming Threat Sequestration

• Perhaps single biggest policy challenge on
  horizon
• Estimated 7-10 cuts to every domestic
  discretionary program
• 98 billion in cuts will go into effect January
  2013 without congressional action

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Education Department Funding
In billions
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Lame Duck Session

• Finish appropriations bills
• Address sequestration
• Raise the debt ceiling
• Address expiration of Bush tax cuts

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Authorizing Legislation
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Pending Authorizing Legislation

• Workforce Investment Act (2003)
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act (2007)
• Institute for Education Sciences (2009)
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
  (2012)
• Higher Education Act (2013?)
• Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
  Act (2013)

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ESEA Reauthorization

• No Child Left Behind
• Originally due to be reauthorized in 2007
• House and Senate bills remain far apart,
  conceptually
• Congress unlikely to complete work on the bill
  this year
• Administration ESEA waiver authority an
  influencing factor

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H.R. 3989House Student Success Act

• Eliminates Adequate Yearly Progress and replaced
  it with state-determined accountability
• Requires states to develop academic ELA and
  mathematics standards
• Removes Highly Qualified Teacher requirements

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H.R. 3990House Encouraging Innovation and
Effective Teachers Act

• Includes requirements for locally-developed
  teacher evaluations
• Requires states and school districts to develop
  teacher evaluation systems that measure an
  educators influence on student learning
• Support opportunities for parents to enroll their
  children in local magnet and charter schools
• Consolidate a myriad of existing K-12 programs

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Education for Tomorrows Jobs Act

• ACTE has worked with Alliance for Excellent
  Education in support
• Would allow ESEA Title I funds to be used for
  academic CTE integration (with certain
  requirements)
• Sen. Casey (D-PA) and Rep. Thompson (R-PA)
  sponsors (S. 1686, H.R. 3154)

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Senate Republican Bills

• Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments Act
  (S. 1571)
• Teacher and Principal Improvement Act (S. 1567)
• Empowering Local Education Decision-Making Act
  (S. 1569)
• Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter
  Schools Act (S. 1566)

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Senate Reauthorization Bill

• Eliminates AYP
• Focuses on identifying Achievement Gap Schools
  and Lowest Achieving Gap Schools (lowest
  performing 5)
• Career Academies are an option that can be used
  to turnaround a school
• Authorizes Race to the Top
• Includes new focus on secondary schools

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Missing ESEA Pieces

• Good changes include growth model, accountability
  relief, secondary schools focus
• College and career readiness equated to be
  transition to college with no remediation
• No focus on comprehensive guidance and career
  development

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WIA Reauthorization

• Originally scheduled for reauthorization in 2003
• House Democrats and Republicans have both
  released new legislation this spring
• Senate action has stalled
• Generally speaking, everyone agrees the law needs
  updatingbut disagreement on how to update it

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WIA House Republican Bill

• H.R.4297 Workforce Investment Improvement Act
• Combines current WIA funding streams into a
  single Workforce Investment Fund
• Options for further consolidation
• Increases the role of employers on WIBs
• Establishes common accountability
• Eliminates Sequence of Services provisions
• Perkins was originally included as consolidation
  option, but has been removed

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WIA House Democrat Bill

• H.R. 4227 Workforce Investment Act
• Supports adult career pathways and sector
  strategies
• Includes President Obamas Community College to
  Career Fund
• Establishes common accountability
• Eliminates Sequence of Services provisions

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WIA Senate Action

• Bipartisan discussion draft was released in
  summer 2011 but only two Republican senators
  signed on
• Markup of the legislation never materialized
• Progress has stalled

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Data Quality Issues

• New Workforce Data Quality Campaign
• NCES CEDS Workforce Taskforce
• OVAE State Perkins Accountability Congress

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Administrations Perkins Blueprint
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Perkins Blueprint

• Released on April 19 at an Iowa Community College
• Titled Investing in America's Future A
  Blueprint for Transforming Career and Technical
  Education
• Four key themes
• Alignment - Accountability
• Collaboration - Innovation

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Perkins Blueprint

• 10 of total set-aside for innovation fund
• States would have to secure private-sector match
  meet certain conditions
• 5 of the state total for admin funding and 15
  for leadership activities
• States would identify in-demand occupations in
  high-growth industry sectors

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Perkins Blueprint

• States would run competitions for funding these
  areas
• Only consortia of LEAs and postsecondary
  institutions and their partners would be allowed
  to apply
• Grants awarded for entire period of law
• Consortia must use common measures
• Performance-based funding would be awarded to
  high-performing consortia

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Perkins Blueprint

• Concerns arise with specific details of theme
  implementation
• Competitive grants
• Mandatory secondary-postsecondary consortia
• Funding limited to high-growth career areas
  identified at state level
• State grant funding redirected to national
  Innovation Fund
• Private sector match
• State conditions to receive funding

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Perkins Blueprint

• ACTE Response
• Numerous conversations with OVAE before Blueprint
  release discussing concerns
• OVAE listening session during NPS
• Press statement expressing concerns after
  Blueprint release and follow-up interviews with
  press
• Information distribution to state leaders and
  members
• Organization of call with other key education and
  workforce groups to discuss common concerns
• Meetings with key Members of Congress to discuss
  concerns and counter positive statements

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ACTE Perkins Guiding Principles

1. Redefine the Federal Role in CTE
2. Target Expenditures
3. Define Program Quality Elements
4. Ensure Relevant Consistent Data
5. Offer Incentives for Innovation
6. Provide the Infrastructure to Support the System

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Perkins Next Steps

• Blueprint is only a proposal many steps before
  law is reauthorized
• Congress not likely to discuss Perkins at all
  before 2013, final reauthorization not likely for
  several years
• ACTE in the process of developing detailed
  recommendations to flesh out principles

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Contact Info

• Association for Career and Technical Education
• 1410 King Street
• Alexandria, VA 22314
• 800-826-9972
• www.acteonline.org
• ahyslop_at_acteonline.org

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Perkins Discussion Session
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• Alignment

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• Collaboration

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• Innovation

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• Accountability

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Accountability Measures

• High school graduation
• Transition to postsecondary (with and without
  remediation)
• Attainment of an industry-recognized credential
  or licensure
• Attainment of a postsecondary certificate or
  degree
• Rates of employment and earnings
• Participation of special populations in CTE