1. January 2010 Marilyn Peterson Data and Federal Programs
ARRA Update State Fiscal Stabilization Funds and School Improvement Grants
January 2010
Marilyn Peterson
Data and Federal Programs
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2. NCLB Allocations
2010 appropriation signed (funds for the school year)
Level funding for almost all ESEA programs except
Title II, Part D (Enhancing Education Through Technology) – cut 63%
Title IV, Part A (Safe and Drug Free Schools) – no appropriation so no grants for districts
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3. Closeout
All but 2 districts closed out by end of December - Thanks!
Closing out generates an notification if carryover is available
Carryover needs to be amended into the NCLB Consolidated Application
Over $10 million of carryover funds (total for all NCLB programs and all districts)
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4. SFSF Phase II Application
Four Assurances
Achieving Equity in Teacher Distribution
Improving Collection and Use of Data
Standards and Assessments
Supporting Struggling Schools
Application contains 37 Descriptors and Indicators
If each is not currently in place, the State must submit a plan to meet the requirements by September 30, 2011, except as noted
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5. Nebraska’s Application and Plan
Submitted January 11, 2010
ARRA Transparency and Accountability
SFSF Application Phase II and all data collected through this plan will be updated regularly and
Posted on NDE ARRA webpage and linked to State’s Nebraska.Recovery.gov
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6. Teacher Evaluation Systems
Each district must describe their teacher evaluation system and how the results of the evaluations are used in
Teacher development
Compensation
Promotion
Retention
Removal
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7. Evaluation Descriptions
The description must indicate whether the system includes
student achievement outcomes as an evaluation criterion (see next slide);
ratings or levels of performance by name and number (of levels); and
if the number and percentage of teachers at each level of performance is reported to the public
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8. Student Achievement Outcomes
Student achievement outcomes includes, at a minimum, one of the following:
student performance on summative assessments, or on assessments predictive of student performance on summative assessments, in terms of absolute performance, gains, or growth;
student grades; and
rates at which students are on track to graduate from high school with a regular high school diploma
rates at which students are on track to graduate can include credit accumulation, student attendance, core course failures, and behavior referrals
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9. Principal Performance
Each district must describe their principal evaluation system and how the results of the evaluations are used in
Principal development
Compensation
Promotion
Retention
Removal
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10. Principal Performance
The description must include an indication of whether the principal evaluation system include levels of performance and the name and number of levels
Note: Principal performance results are not required to be publicly reported by school
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11. Teacher and Principal Data
Descriptions of teacher and principal evaluation systems will be collected in the Spring 2010
From this collection, NDE will learn the performance levels (if any) in these evaluation systems
NDE will collect the number and percent of teachers and principals at each performance level in Spring 2011.
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12. Improving Collection and Use of Data
The 12 Data Elements of America COMPETES Act
Elements 1 – 4: Extend NSSRS to all postsecondary schools
Implications for districts?
Postsecondary institutions will have access to all PK-12 data for research
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13. 12 Data Elements Continued
Elements 6 – 7 and 10
NSSRS already has in place
Includes student test results, including the number of students not tested.
New statewide tests (NeSA) being designed to capture the data needed
College readiness scores – ACT scores being added
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14. 12 Data Elements Continued
8. Teacher identifier system with the ability to match teachers to students
Unique ID for teachers
Teachers to courses to classes to students
9. Student transcript information, including courses completed and grades earned at high school level
NE can meet these requirements by using a new Student Grade template that contains a Section identifier (for each class) and by modifying the new online Curriculum Report to include this Section identifier
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15. 12 Data Elements Continued
Postsecondary
11. Extent to which students transition successfully to postsecondary including whether students enroll in remedial classes
Using cohort graduation data (cohort data not available until after school year)
12. Information to address alignment and adequate preparation for success in postsecondary education
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16. Improving Collection and Use of Data
State to provide growth data to teachers of Reading and Math on their current and previous years’ students in grades 3-8 and 11 in a manner that is timely and informs instruction
Application and plan need to indicate the State has the means to do this by September 30, 2011
NeSA will provide this for Reading by Sept and Math by Sept. 2012
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17. Improving Collection and Use of Data
The State to provide teachers of Reading and Math in grades 3-8 and 11 with reports of individual teacher impact on student achievement
State Plan must indicate it has the means to provide the reports by September 30, 2011
NeSA will provide this for Reading by Sept and Math by Sept. 2012
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18. Standards and Assessments
Approval Status of State’s assessment system, including alternate assessments (Nebraska’s alternate assessments based on grade level achievement standards)
Nebraska’s status is “In process” with our compliance agreement
Number and percentage of English Language Learners and Students with disabilities included in the State assessments of Reading and Math
Reported on the State of the Schools Report
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19. Standards and Assessments
Analysis of the appropriateness and effectiveness of accommodations for
English Language Learners, and
Students with disabilities
Whether the State provides native language assessments
NAEP results reported
Included on the State of the Schools Report
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20. Standards and Assessments
The number and percentage of students who graduate from high school using the cohort graduation data
Report by district and school
Disaggregated by NCLB subgroups
Minimum group size (30) applies
Cohort graduation rate data becomes available in and will be reported on the State of the Schools Report
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21. Standards and Assessments
Of the students included in the cohort graduation data, the number and percentage who enroll in an institution of higher education within 16 months of receiving a regular high school diploma
Report by district and school
Disaggregated by NCLB subgroups
Minimum group size (30) applies
Cohort graduation rate data becomes available in
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22. Standards and Assessments
Of the students included in the cohort graduation data who enroll in a public institution of higher education, the number and percentage who complete at least one year’s worth of college credit (applicable to a degree) within two years of enrollment
Report by district and school
Disaggregated by NCLB subgroups
Minimum group size (30) applies
Cohort graduation rate data becomes available in
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23. Supporting Struggling Schools
Average statewide school gain in the “all students” and for each NCLB subgroup in Reading and Mathematics and the number and percentage of Title I schools in school improvement that have made progress
Reading = 71.43% (15 of 21)
Math = 66.67% (14 of 21)
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24. Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools (PLAS)
A process that replaces AYP for identifying schools with the greatest needs
Very different rules than AYP
NDE (not Title I) must identify the persistently lowest-achieving schools now and must post the names on the NDE ARRA homepage when this SFSF Application is approved
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25. Supporting Struggling Schools
Persistently lowest-achieving schools
Lowest performing schools, as ranked for combined Reading and Math results, for the “all students” group over a number of years
Plus any high school with a graduation rate of less than 60% over a period of time. Nebraska is seeking a waiver to also include schools with a graduation rate of less than 75%
8/2/2018

26. Waiver Request
A waiver request to also include secondary schools that are Title I eligible, but not served, with graduation rates of less than 75% over a period of three years in the definition of PLAS
Request will be posted on the NDE ARRA website for public comment for 10 days (notice included in NDE Bulletin)
All public comments must be submitted with the waiver request to USDE
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27. PLAS Process Performance Rank – based on last year’s AYP results
Number at proficient level in Reading and Math combined
Divided by the total of FAY counts for both subjects
Resulting percent proficient is ranked
Progress over time – based on last 3 years’ AYP results
Number at proficient level for 3 years in Reading and Math
Divided by the total of FAY counts for three years
Resulting percent is ranked for a progress rank
Final Rank – add the weighted (2 X) performance rank to the progress rank and rank again
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28. Graduation Rate
Schools that have a graduation of less than 60% over three years are added as PLAS
Using the AYP graduation data for the last available three years ( , and ), calculate a PLAS graduation rate
NOTE: NeSA test results will replace AYP data and the cohort graduation data will replace the AYP graduation data when these data become available.
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29. Tiers of Schools
Tier I –Title I schools identified as being in need of improvement, corrective action or restructuring
Lowest 5 schools using the Final Rank
Plus any Title I school with a Graduation rate of less than 60% (PLAS 3 year rate)
Tier II – PLAS of all secondary schools that are eligible for, but do not receive, Title I
Lowest 5% of the schools using the Final Rank (5% = 10)
Plus any secondary school with a PLAS Graduation rate of less than 60% (PLAS 3 year rate)
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30. Supporting Struggling Schools
Of the persistently lowest-achieving schools, the number and identity of those schools that, in the last year, have been
Turned around
Restarted
Closed, or
Transformed
Must collect this data by October, 2010
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31. ARRA School Improvement Grants
ARRA SIG – Section 1003(g) of Title I (now known as Accountability Funds)
ARRA added allocation to make about 17 million dollars for these grants this time
ARRA SIG application and guidance on the NDE ARRA homepage and the Title I homepage
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32. Waivers for NDE for School Improvement Grants
Out for public comment now
Extend time for use of funds to
Allow PLAS Tier I schools to “start over” for AYP
Allow PLAS Tier I schools to be schoolwide projects even if poverty level is below 40%
Allow SIG grants to Tier II (eligible but not served) schools
On ARRA and Title I website and ed
Send comments to Diane Stuehmer at NDE
8/2/2018

33. ARRA SIG Grants Three year grants (if waiver is approved)
Tier I PLAS (5 lowest Title I identified schools plus PLAS graduate rate schools)
Tier II PLAS (10 secondary schools plus PLAS graduate rate schools)
Tier III – any Title I identified school that is in improvement and is one of the 5 PLAS
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34. Four Models for SIG Grants
School and district must
Commit to one of the following four models
Must meet all grant requirements
Establish and continue to meet goals to continue being funded for all three years
Nebraska has 17 million dollars for this round of SIG grants
Must identify new PLAS each year but won’t have as much money for grants in the future
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35. Turnaround Model Requirements
Replace principal (unless already new in last two years)
Screen all staff and rehire no more than 50%
Implement strategies to recruit, place and retain staff
Provide job-embedded professional development
Adopt a new governance structure
Implement research-based instructional program K-12
Promote continuous use of student data
Increase learning time
Provide appropriate social-emotional and community-oriented services
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36. Restart Model Requirements
Convert a school or close and reopen a school under a charter school operator, a charter management organization or an education management organization
A restart model must enroll, within the grades it serves, any former student who wished to attend
Note – Nebraska does not have a law allowing or disallowing a charter school
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37. School Closure Model
School is closed and all students are assigned to other schools in the district that are higher achieving
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38. Transformation Model Requirements
Develop and increase teacher and school leader effectiveness
Replace the principal
Use teacher evaluations with a significant emphasis on student achievement to identify and reward teachers improving student achievement and to remove those that are not
Provide job-embedded, ongoing, high-quality professional development
Implement strategies to recruit, place and retain staff
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39. Transformation Model Requirements
Comprehensive instructional reform strategies
Use data to identify and implement a research-based instructional program aligned K-12
Promote continuous use of student data to inform and differentiate instruction
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40. Transformation Model Requirements
Increasing learning time and creating community-oriented schools
Establish schedules and strategies that provide increased learning time (as defined in the guidance)
Provide ongoing mechanisms for family and community engagement
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41. Transformation Model Requirements
Providing operational flexibility and sustained support
Give the school sufficient operational flexibility to implement fully a comprehensive approach to substantially improve student achievement outcomes and increase high school graduation rates
Ensure the school has ongoing, intensive technical assistance and support
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42. ARRA SIG Timelines State application due to USDE on Feb. 8, 2010
District applications will be due in late Spring or early Summer
Grants are to begin in the school year (and if waiver approved, will be approved through )
Districts interested in applying will have technical assistance and support
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