J. David Edwards, Ph.D., Executive Director Ashley L. Lenker, Program Manager

Where we go from here

 Spend quickly to save and create jobs  Ensure transparency and accountability  Thoughtfully invest one-time funds  Advance effective reforms to improve student achievement

 College- and career-ready standards and high-quality, valid, and reliable assessments for all students, including ELLs and students with disabilities  Pre-K to higher education data systems that meet the principles in the America COMPETES Act  Teacher effectiveness and equitable distribution of effective teachers  Intensive support and effective interventions for lowest performing schools

 Competitive Grants  $4.35 billion discretionary fund  Two phases: January 19, 2010 & June 1, 2010  NO child can reach the top without a second language! Anna M. Munson, ARRA Audio Conference

 State Success Factors  Standards and Assessments  Data Systems to Support Instruction  Great Teachers and Leaders  Turning Around the Lowest Achieving Schools  General Selection Criteria  Absolute Priority: Comprehensive Approach to Education Reform  Competitive Preference Priority: STEM  Invitational Priority: Innovations for Improving Early Learning Outcomes  Invitational Priority: Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems  Invitational Priority: P-20 Coordination  Invitational Priority: School Level Conditions for Reform, Innovation, and Learning

 JNCL-NCLIS website:  ml#ARRA ml#ARRA  Department of Education:   Partnership for 21 st Century Skills  ASCD:  ulus_Resources.aspx ulus_Resources.aspx

Building on what we have

 National Security Language Initiative (NSLI)  National Security Education Program (NSEP)  Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorization & Title VI/Fulbright-Hays  Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP)  Appropriations

 K-16 Flagship Programs  Portland Public Schools, University of Oregon – Chinese  Ohio Public Schools, Ohio State University – Chinese  Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan State University - Arabic

 General provisions: college costs, loan accountability, textbook costs, opportunities for minorities, veterans, and students with disabilities, campus safety, energy efficiency, and competitiveness;  Broad definition of “critical foreign language” in Title I, General Principles, as suggested by JNCL-NCLIS;  New competitive grant program for math, science, technology, and critical foreign languages to serve as adjunct content specialists to support teachers in Title II, Teacher Quality Enhancement;  Provisions for loan forgiveness for teachers in high need areas, including foreign languages, in Title IV, Student Assistance;  Foreign languages as an “area of national need” in Title VII, Graduate and Post Secondary Improvement Programs;  Increased and improved linkages and outreach for foreign languages and international studies to public and private sectors, cooperation with math, sciences, and technology, increased study abroad, and reinstated FLAS fellowship eligibility in Title VI;  Creation of a new Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education in Title IX, the Department of Education Organization Act

 The Bush Administration originally zero-funded a number of the programs dealing with languages and international education  FLAP will gain $600,000 totaling $26.3 million  Title VI and Fulbright-Hays gain $9.8 million (to $118.8 million)  FIPSE: $133.7 million  America COMETES STEM grants: $1.1 million each  Funding increases for research and development, Byrd honors scholarships and Javits Fellowships, & grants to LEAs  NEH receives a $10 million increase ($155 million)  Department of State programs (Educational and Cultural Exchange, Peace Corp, Inter-American Foundation, and the National Endowment for Democracy) all receive increased funding  NSEP would receive $36.7M under the DoD/ODNI request

 Overall, foreign language and international education programs would remain stable  Many programs were level-funded:  FLAP $26.3 million (President &House), Senate increases to $28 million  21st Century Learning Centers: $1.1 billion (level-funded by President & Senate), House would increase $50 million  Teacher Quality Partnership: $50 million (President), House & Senate slightly decrease  STEM: $1.1 million each for baccalaureate & master’s programs, House eliminates  Several programs were proposed to be eliminated by the Administration  Even Start (House maintains, Senate eliminates), Javits Gifted and Talented Education (level funded in Congress), Civic Education (House & Senate level fund), and TEACH grants  President requested increases for:  Early Reading First to $162.5 million (House requests smaller increase, Senate decreases to $30 million)  Charter School Grants to $268 million by President, House & Senate recommend $256 million  Federal Pell ($19.4 billion to $28.7 billion), House & Senate would decrease to $17.8 & $17.5 billion  SMART Grants($960 million to $1 billion by all three)  National Endowment for the Humanities (final) increased by $12.5 million to $167.5 million in the Department of the Interior  Educational and Cultural Exchange would receive increases by President, House and Senate between $600 and $635 million in the Department of State

Moving forward

 Foreign Language Education Partnership Program (Rep. Holt, H.R. 4065)  National Foreign Language Coordination Act of 2009 (Sen. Akaka, S.1010)  Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act (S.473, H.R.2410)  Assistant Secretary of International and Foreign Language Education?  Reauthorization of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)?

 Where do languages fit in the big picture?  Continuing current policies  New Administration  Department of Education/Secretary Duncan  Social/systemic reform vs. Substantive reform  Bottom line: Getting the political support we need will depend upon our political involvement and commitment.

Dr. J. David Edwards, Executive Director Ashley L. Lenker, Program Manager Sandra Gillis, Office Manager JNCL-NCLIS th Street NW Suite 310 Washington, DC (202)