$100 billion nationwide for Prekindergarten through grade twelve and post secondary education

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONJack O’Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Making Sense of the Federal Stimulus Package

Andrea Ball, Deputy SuperintendentMarcela Obregon Enriquez, Education Administrator I

November 2009

JACK O’CONNELLState Superintendent of Public Instruction

Federal StimulusAmerican Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Education related programs enacted February 2009

• $100 billion nationwide for Prekindergarten through grade twelve and post secondary education

• Includes: Existing Pre-K and K-12 programsState Fiscal Stabilization (new program)2 school facilities tax credit programs: Qualified Zone Academy bonds (existing) and Qualified School Construction Bonds (new program)

• An estimated $7 billion in education funding for California


American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

ProgramCalifornia

TotalGrantees

State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (Ed) $3,243B LEAs

IDEA (Part B) $1,268B SELPAs

Title I $1,080B LEAs

School Improvement Grant $352M LEAs

Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT)

$72M Competitive and formula to LEAs

McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act

$14M LEAs

Child Development Block Grant $220MDirect Service Providers & Service

Entities

Child Nutrition Program $13MCompetitive to School Food

Authorities

Race to the Top (competitive) $4.35B

NationallyStates

Investing in Innovation (competitive)$650M

Nationally

LEAs, Charter Schools, nonprofit organizations working in

collaboration with LEAs or Consortiums

State Longitudinal Data Systems (competitive)

$250M Nationally

States

Teacher Incentive Grant (competitive)$200M

NationallyDistricts, states, and nonprofits


Guiding PrinciplesAmerican Recovery and

Reinvestment Act (ARRA)


Race To The Top$4.35 billion competitive grants to states who focus on a comprehensive and ambitious plan to address the four

assurances.

Common Core:• Adopting internationally benchmarked standards and

assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace;

Great Teachers and Leaders:• Recruiting, developing, retaining, and rewarding effective teachers

and principals;

Robust Data System:• Building data systems that measure student success and inform

teachers and principals how they can improve their practices; and

Turning around our lowest-performing schools:• Aggressive intervention is required in chronically low-performing

schools.


State to Partner with School Districts

• School districts to partner with the state in developing RTTT application.

• State/districts to develop holistic plans that address each of the four reform areas.

• State/districts to think creatively and broadly view RTTT funding as seed money to institute major program change.


Race To The TopProposed Eligibility Requirements

Two Eligibility Requirements:

• State must be approved for funding under the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (Phase I and Phase II) by December 31, 2009. This entails a state plan to collect and report data related to four education reform areas.

• State cannot have statutory or regulatory barriers to linking data about student growth and achievement to teachers for the purposes of evaluation.

One Absolute Priority:

• States must have a coherent and comprehensive plan for addressing four reform areas. States earn points based upon their ability to meet 19 selection criteria.


Race To The Top Structure of Selection Criteria

State Reform Conditions Criteria• Demonstrate will and capacity to improve

education systems.• Document the existing legal and policy

conditions that are conductive to innovation and reform.

Reform Plan Criteria• Describe comprehensive strategies (for the

state and participating LEAs) that allow for continuous improvement of student outcomes.


Jun-Aug

2009

Sep-Nov2009

Dec-Feb2009-10

Mar-May2010

Jun-Aug2010

Sep-Nov2010

Draft guidelines released (Jul 24)

End of draft comment period (Aug 28)

Final guidelines released (Late Fall 2009)

Phase 1 applications due (late Winter 2009)

Phase 1 awards (first half 2010)

Phase 2 applications due (spring 2010)

Phase 2awards

(Sep 2010)

Anticipated R2T Application and Award Timeline

Source: The New Teacher Project http://www.tntp.org/

JACK O’CONNELLState Superintendent of Public Instruction • Outreach efforts to inform and obtain

stakeholder input include:

– Webinars and Webdialogues– In-person meetings in three regions to

share information and solicit feedback:• November 2, 3, & 4

– See www.caracetothetop.org for more information and schedule of events

California’s Race to the Top Process


Legislative Action

• Special Session called by the Governor.

• Hearings already held by Senate and more scheduled- Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Clara

• Hearings held by Assembly and 2 more scheduled through December – Sacramento and Los Angeles


Innovation Fund “i3” Grants$650 Million Nationally

Who’s eligible School districts, consortia of schools, and certain nonprofits.

Goals for grants Expand proven education models, scale up capacity of high-impact programs and organizations, validate promising evidence-supported models, create new education reform breakthroughs.

Grants fall into three categories.

•Up to $5M for “pure innovation” for “promising

ideas”;•Up to $30M for “strategic investment” for programs

that “need to build a research base or

organizational capacity to succeed at a larger

scale”;•Up to $50M for “grow what works” to expand

“proven programs.”

Timeline Two rounds of grants will be awarded, with application deadlines in late 2009 and spring 2010. Grants must be awarded by September 2010 (may consolidate into 1 round).


Quarterly Reporting Requirements

• Unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability.

• Nationwide data reporting and posting on expenditures, jobs saved and retained.

• CDE developed a Web-based data reporting system.

• The first report due to federal government on 10-10-2009 and will cover the period from the grant award date through 9-30-09.

• Results will be available at:State: http://www.recovery.ca.gov/Federal: http://www.recovery.gov/


ARRA Reporting Information as of October 13, 2009

• About 28,000 education jobs in grades PreK-12 were saved by ARRA. The figure was derived from the first quarterly reports submitted to the California Department of Education (CDE) by school districts and other subrecipients of ARRA funds.

• Ninety-nine percent of the 1,647 entities receiving ARRA grants administered by CDE submitted reports in the first quarterly reporting cycle.

• 3,538 grants totaling $4.8 billion in ARRA funding have been allocated to California subrecipients. Of that amount, $3.2 billion has been disbursed by CDE to the subrecipients.


ARRA Resources

• Join ARRA Electronic Mailing ListSign up for the ARRA electronic mailing list by sending a blank e-mail to [email protected] to be notified when updated information is posted to this Web site.

• Questions: [email protected] or by phone at 916-319-0821• ARRA General Information: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ar/• ARRA funding and reporting requirements:

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ar/rr/• General Programs:

http://ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/programs.html• Recovery.gov is the U.S. government’s official website providing

easy access to data related to Recovery Act spending and allowsfor the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse. http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx and http://ed.gov/index.jhtml

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