1. ESEA and Effective Advocacy Leslie Finnan Senior Legislative Analyst

2. The Legislative Process

3. The Legislative Process: How a Bill Becomes a Law Bill introduced HouseSenate Referred to Ed and Workforce Committee Referred to HELP Committee House Floor Consideration Senate Floor Consideration Conference Committee Full House Approves Full Senate Approves Signed by the President

4. The Federal Budget

5. The Federal Budget (Ideal World) February – President releases a budget request – Includes overall budget and appropriations for each department – Signals priorities for the year April – Congressional Budget Resolution – House and Senate Budget Committees agree on an overall budget October – Appropriations bills agreed to for each committee (such as Labor, Health, Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies)

6. The Federal Budget (Real World) February – President releases a budget request – Dead on arrival Sometimes – Congressional Budget Resolution Continuing Resolution (CR) vs. Omnibus (vs. CRomnibus)

7. ESSA Warm Up Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) 1965 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 2001 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) 2015 NCLB reauth started in Aug 2007 and lasted just over 8 years. The 114 th Congress-2016 was a year of action! ESSA: – Passed the House 359-64; Passed the Senate 85-12 – Bill signed into law December 10, 2015

8. What’s in the Bill? AASA opposed NCLB from the start – everyone else joined us later ESSA is a significant improvement over current law. Maintains federal role, but emphasizes role is to support/strengthen, not dictate/prescribe to, schools Returns pendulum of federal overreach and prescription back to state/local control Changes the environment from “test and punish” to “support and strengthen”

9. Title IV: Before ESSA Before ESSA – Title IV contained 49 individual programs – Math and Science Partnerships – Advanced Placement – Arts in Education – Physical Education – Safe and Drug-Free – 21 st Century Community Learning Centers – Magnet Schools – Investing in Innovation – Promise Neighborhoods – Full-Service Community Schools – Arts National Program – Javits Gifted and Talented

10. Title IV: Under ESSA ESSA created the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants Must include: Well-rounded educational activities (STEM, college and career counseling, health and physical ed) Supporting safe and healthy students (mental health, drug and violence prevention, health and physical ed) Supporting effective use of technology (professional development, devices, blended learning) Must spend at least 20% Cannot spend more than 60%

11. Title IV: Funding Authorized in ESSA statute at $1.65 billion Obama’s budget request was $500 million (and competitive) Senate Appropriations Committee gave $300 million

12. Timeline & Implementation Signed into law (Dec 2015); regulations in 2016 Current waivers would expire July 31, 2016 New provisions go into effect for 2017-18 school year 2016-17 school year could be ‘soft launch’ of new elements FY16 funding will flow through current law construct; FY17 dollars will flow through ESSA construct (in schools for 17-18 school year)

13. Advocacy

14. Effective Advocacy Relationships, Not Just Substance Systems, Not Just Meetings and Letters Information, Not Just Lobbying Putting your issue’s best foot forward

15. What to Expect Though a meeting may be with a member, always know things come up. Education staffers tend to be young. Do not expect meeting rooms. You may meet in the member’s office or even a hallway passage. Meetings can range in time from 15 minutes to an hour. – Be sure to get in your three main points. Follow up with any necessary additional information.

16. If You Enjoy This Keep it up! Call, email, meet your member at home Stay involved

17. Questions? Comments? AASA Website: www.aasa.orgwww.aasa.org AASA Policy Blog: www.aasa.org/AASABlog.aspxwww.aasa.org/AASABlog.aspx AASA Advocacy on Twitter (next slide!) Annual AASA Advocacy Conference Weekly Update: Legislative Corps Monthly Update: Advocacy Alert Policy Insider Legislative Trends Toolkits (E-Rate, ALEC, etc…)

18. AASA Policy & Advocacy Team Leslie Finnan Noelle Ellerson lfinnan@aasa.org nellerson@aasa.org @LeslieFinnan @Noellerson Sasha Pudelski spudelski@aasa.org @Spudelski