1. Every Student Succeeds Act Noelle Ellerson December 2015

2. Moving Pieces? House and Senate Bills: Summer 2015 Conference Conversation: Late Summer/Fall Conference Committee: Nov 2015 ESSA: o Filed Nov 30, House vote 12/2, Senate vote 12/8 o Passed the House 359-64; Passed the Senate 85-12 o Bill signed into law December 10, 2015

3. What’s in the Bill? ESSA is a significant improvement over current law. Maintains federal role, but emphasizes role is to support/strengthen, not dictate/prescribe to, schools Returns pendulum of federal overreach and prescription back to state/local control

4. What’s in the bill? Meat & Potato Issues o Standards o Assessments o Accountability AASA Conference Priorities o Portability, Title I Formula, Expanded Accountability, Expanded Data Collection, Alternate Assessment o We’re 5 for 5!

5. What’s in the bill? More Accountability o ID/intervene in bottom 5%; ID/intervene in grad rates <67%; ID interim and long term subgroup targets, state/LEA determine intervention Other Assessment: o Pilot, Local Assessment, Participation/Opt Out Early Education

6. What’s in the bill? Title I, Other o Portability is OUT; weighted funding pilot is IN o SIG is out, but money is still available for innovation o Maintenance of Effort is IN o No Title I Formula rewrite, but there is a Congressional Study Rural Education: REAP, USED Study, and consolidated grants Titles II (Professional Development) and Title IV (school climate) are bloc grants o Title II formula rewrite, toward deeper concentration of poverty

7. Timeline & Implementation Signed into law (presumably Dec 2015) Current waivers would expire July 31, 2015 New provisions go into effect for 2017-18 school year 2016-17 school year could be ‘soft launch’ of new elements FY16 competitive funding will flow through current law construct; FY17 dollars will flow through ESSA construct (in schools for 17-18 school year)

8. Looking Forward Reauthorization is only half the effort. Onward to implementation! AASA set of resources: o Side-by-side: What’s in the bill, what’s new, what’s different o Webinar Series o State Support Model legislation Template talking points One-pagers Research Base State vs Local: When the State says no, is the answer really no?

9. Other Topics IDEA School Nutrition Appropriations E-Rate/Lifeline/EBS Perkins Student Data & Privacy Charters Higher Education Act Affordable Care Act More?

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11. AASA Policy & Advocacy Team Noelle Ellerson nellerson@aasa.org @Noellerson Leslie Finnan lfinnan@aasa.org @LeslieFinnan Sasha Pudelski spudelski@aasa.org @Spudelski