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ESEA Reauthorization: Status, Challenges, and Future Directions for Education Programs

This report examines the current status of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization, focusing on key outstanding issues, appropriations actions, and programs with “ratified” agreements. It covers a range of initiatives like Reading First, Safe and Drug-Free Schools, and the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, as well as various challenges related to Title I grants, teacher quality, and accountability measures. The text outlines provisions for new assessments and accountability metrics, highlighting both existing and proposed programs aimed at improving educational outcomes for all students.

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ESEA Reauthorization: Status, Challenges, and Future Directions for Education Programs

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  1. ESEA Reauthorization: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead -- Status of reauthorization and appropriations action -- Major outstanding issues

  2. Programs with “Ratified” agreements • Reading First • Early Reading First • Safe and Drug-Free Schools • 21st Century Community Learning Centers • Education Technology • Migrant Education • Neglected and Delinquent

  3. More Programs with “Ratified Agreements” • Comprehensive School Reform • Indian, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native Education • Impact Aid • Education of Homeless Children and Youth • Innovative Education (block grant) • Even Start

  4. Additional Ratified Agreements • Charter Schools • Magnet Schools • Rural Education • Additional, small programs (Civic Ed, Close Up, Women’s Equity, etc.)

  5. Programs and Issues without Ratified Agreements • Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies • Teacher Quality (Title II) • Bilingual and Immigrant Education • Flexibility initiatives • Rewards and sanctions • Small programs, consolidations • Authorization levels

  6. Title I Assessments: New Requirements • Grades 3-8, in reading and math • Science, 3 grade levels, starting in 2007-8 (Senate only) • Assessments must be given to all students • Trigger?

  7. Adequate Yearly Progress: House • 12-year timeline • Annual progress for each group (racial/ethnic, disadvantaged, LEP)

  8. Adequate Yearly Progress: Senate • 10-year timeline • Incorporates disaggregated data for groups (ethnic/racial, disadvantaged, LEP, gender, migrant). • But allows weighting and combining of data. • Allows three-year averaging • Requires other factors

  9. Title I Accountability, year by year • Baseline year for testing (2001-2002?) • Year 1 – School improvement • Year 2 – School improvement, optional corrective action • Year 3 – Mandatory corrective action • Year 4 – Reconstitution • Year 5 – Reconstitution year 2

  10. Teacher and Paraprofessional Accountability • House: fully qualified teachers • Senate: highly qualified teachers • House: paraprofessionals

  11. State Accountability • State “Achievement in Education” awards • Tied to State assessments and NAEP • Mandatory participation in State NAEP • State sanctions • Achievement completion bonuses

  12. Achievement Completion Bonuses • “Ed-Flex” • Rural flexibility • Indian Education “Integration of services” • “Straight A’s” • “Local Flex” • Transferability

  13. Examples of new programs • Rural Education • Mentoring • Community Service for Expelled and Suspended Students • Alcohol Abuse Education • Public School Choice • Literacy through School Libraries

  14. Examples of New Programs • “Educational, Cultural, Apprenticeship, and Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Whaling and Trading Partners in Massachusetts”

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