Elementary and Secondary Education Act In July 2015, both House and Senate passed billsHouseSenate  The House version is known as the Student Success Act (SSA)  The Senate version is called the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) of 2015.

 They now must come together and sort out the issues that differ between their two versions so that they might present a single bill to both houses for a vote.

 The committee chairs who presided over the House and Senate bills, Representative John Kline and Senator Lamar Alexander, respectively, get to decide who to invite to sit on the resulting House-Senate conference committee.

July 20, th Congress ESEA Comparison Chart

Standards

 Adopt standards  Adopt alternative standards for students with disabilities. States/districts determine curriculum, assessments, instructional programs  Opt out of C. Core  States provide assurances of challenging standards  Adopt alternative standards for students with disabilities  Denies authority to the Secretary…

Assessment

 Test all students annually in reading/ELA, and math (gr. 3-8) and once in high school  Science tests once in grade span levels  Districts may use own assessments  Alternate tests for students with disabilities  Test all students annually in reading/ELA, and math (gr. 3-8) and once in high school  Science tests once in grade span levels  Alternate tests for up to 1% of the population of students with disabilities.

Accountability

 State creates own accountability system: › Annually measure student and school performance › School improvement strategies for Low Performing Schools › Prohibits prescribing by the FED › Opt out of testing  State create own accountability system: › Annually measure student and school performance › Grad rates, other indicators, disaggregate date  Show how school climate and discipline is monitored  Prohibits prescribing from by the FED

School Improvement

 Requires the State create and Implement own strategies for schools state determines is low- performing  Eliminates the SIG  Requires districts to create a system for identifying schools and state provides technical assistance  Eliminates the SIG

Teacher Evaluation and Support

 Eliminates HQT requirements  PD for teachers  Does not require teacher evaluation systems › If Title II funds: “significant” part on student achievement data derived from a variety of sources; use multiple measures; and establish more than 2 categories of performance ratings.  Eliminates HQT requirements  Does not require teacher evaluation systems › If Title II funds:“in part” on student achievement and must be based on multiple measures.  A New fund is created  Teacher Incentive Fund maintained  Support to recruit/ train STEM teachers

Well-rounded Whole Child

 Eliminates 70 individual programs, many of which support well-rounded education (Arts in Education, PEP, Elementary and Secondary School Counseling).  Includes individual programs that support a well-rounded education (Arts in Education, PEP, Elementary and Secondary School Counseling, after- school, violence prevention, AP/IB/dual enrollment, STEM).  Creates Safe and Healthy Students block grants  Creates competitive grant program to support evidence-based approaches to civic learning and American history, and create summer learning academies for educators and students.

Funding

 Portability—funding follows the child to any public school of their choice.  Title I flexibility—spending is not limited to only Title I students.  Eliminates state maintenance of effort requirement.  Locks in education funding at post- sequestration levels for 4 years.  Changes Title I allocation formula once funding reaches $17 billion threshold; shifts weight from population to poverty concentration.  Maintains state maintenance of effort requirement.  Allows 100% transferability between Title II (educator supports) and IV (safe and healthy students) funds and from Titles II and IV into Title I.