1. Brad Neuenswander Deputy Commissioner
ESEA Waiver Update
Brad Neuenswander Deputy Commissioner

2. Waiver Components Extend our current ESEA Waiver another year.
Respond to our current conditional “high risk” status.
Respond to our Fall 2013 USDE Monitoring Visit.
Amend items in our Current Waiver.
Move the use of using student growth to inform personnel decisions until

3. Extend our current ESEA Waiver
All states are given the option to request an extension of their current waivers for an additional year.
If approved, our waiver would extend into the school year.
Must submit by February 28, 2014 or 60 days after receiving our Fall 2013 monitoring letter.

4. Respond to our current conditional “high risk” status
Involves Principle 3 of our waiver.
How Kansas chooses to use student growth as a significant factor in teacher/leader evaluations.
Positive response/progress with the USDE
Submitted our response on January 27, 2014 and are waiting on a response.

5. Respond to our Fall 2013 USDE Monitoring Visit
All States with an ESEA Waiver are required to have a monitoring visit to make sure we are following through with our plan.
Must submit response by early April, 2014

6. Amend items in our Current Waiver
Kansas will have CETE develop our state assessments instead of being involved with Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
A new assessment model that allows for multiple assessments at the high school level
Re-think how we identify “Not Making Progress” schools

7. Move the use of using student growth data to inform personnel decisions until 2017-18
Results from the state assessments would not be used in teacher/leader evaluations until the school year.

8. Questions?