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Of Funding and Reauthorization: Appropriations and ESEA/ESSA Noelle Ellerson NAFEPA 2016 ESSA Warm Up Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) 1965 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 2001 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) 2015 NCLB
– Passed the House 359-64; Passed the Senate 85-12 – Bill signed into law December 10, 2015
span testing in science
– State Assessment Pilot will support selected states in creating/utilizing their
– Local high schools can, with permission from their state, use a local assessment in place of the state assessment, and this could include SAT or ACT
calculation
– Outside of broad federal guardrails, significantly whittles back federal
high schools graduating less than 67% – States must establish sub-group performance targets, but there is NOT consequence for intervention based on these targets
– Portability is OUT; weighted funding pilot is IN – No Title I Formula rewrite, but there is a Congressional Study
– Title II formula rewrite, toward deeper concentration of poverty
runs Oct 1 – Sept 30
2015- Sept 30 2016)
schools for 2016-17 school year
defense discretionary (NDD) portion of the budget
LHHS-Edu approps bill
$400 $450 $500 $550 $600 $650 $700 FY 12 FY 13 FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19 FY 20 FY 21 FY 22 FY 23 FY 12 Cap adjusted for inflation BCA Pre-Sequester Caps Sequestration Ryan-Murray
(in billions)
$492 $493 $530 $518 $504 $519 $8 $8
$300 $350 $400 $450 $500 $550 FY 2015 Sequester Cap FY 2016 Sequester Cap FY 2016 President's Budget FY 2016 Budget Deal FY 2017 Sequester Cap FY 2017 Budget Deal Cap level OCO fund nondefense increase
$527 total
Education (ED) funding by $2.77 billion or 4.1%. Most cuts to K12.
$502 million.
million.
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$1.36 billion or 2%.
$100 million
– Striving readers – Preschool development grants – Investing in Innovation – First in the World
– President Obama vowed to veto approps bills that didn’t maintain parity between defense and NDD – Congress passed short term CR (thru Dec 11) – Push to ‘Raise the Caps’
time
(ESSA). Issue with Title I allocations:
funding will likely be significantly below authorized level of $1.65 billion. – Total FY 2016 funding for consolidated programs (Advanced Placement, Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Elementary and Secondary School Counseling, Physical Education Program, Math-Science Partnerships) = $353 million).
level by $12 billion!
– level funded (consolidates $450 m from SIG into Title I) – Coupled with change in hold harmless, results in CUT of $200m in LEA allocations
– Funds Title IV at $500 m (increase from $353, but well below authorized $1.6 b) – Comes with rider language to make the program competitive, and allow states to establish priorities
– AASA’s #1 legislative priority is full funding of IDEA – IDEA’s MoE requirements are untenable, inequitable, and need to be modified
waiver
education when districts budgets improve
special education when budgets are good, and ensure districts can utilize optimize efficiency when budgets aren’t as good
– Reauthorization: Jan 2016?
– Rate of due process continues to decrease, but not because system is working – Due process drives good teachers away from special education – Due process is incredibly costly
experience exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances such as a natural disaster or a precipitous and unforeseen decline in the financial resources of the local educational agency
special-ed students
pension, healthcare contributions or other employee benefits
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