OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY SECRETARY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DECEMBER 2009

1. AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT Overview & Job Reporting Requirements OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY SECRETARY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DECEMBER 2009

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3. MOVING AMERICA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM FORWARD • Where we are: • Between 2007 and 2009, NAEP 4th grade math scores were flat—with only a slight improvement in 8th grade. • 27 percent of our students drop out before earning a diploma. • Only 40 percent of our adults earn a two-year or four-year degree.

4. MOVING AMERICA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM FORWARD • Where we need to go: • Improve student achievement • Narrow achievement gaps • Increase graduation and college enrollment rates PRESIDENT OBAMA’S GOAL America will have the highest proportion of college graduates of any country by 2020

5. Cradle-to-Career Education Plan Early Learning K-12 Higher Education Effective teaching & learning LITERACY BY 3RD GRADE INCREASE ACCESS &AFFORDABILITY College and Career Attainment

6. KEY ELEMENTS OF SUCCESSFUL K-12 REFORM System-Wide Capacity Aligned Instruction Effective Teaching & Learning School Environment Community Teachers and Leaders

7. ARRA Reform Priority: Standards & Assessments System-Wide Capacity Aligned Instruction Standards and Assessments Effective Teaching & Learning School Environment Community Teachers and Leaders

8. ARRA Reform Priority: Effective Teaching and Leading System-Wide Capacity Aligned Instruction Effective Teaching & Learning School Environment Community Teachers and Leaders Effective Teaching and Leading

9. ARRA Reform Priority: Data Systems System-Wide Capacity Aligned Instruction Data Systems Effective Teaching & Learning School Environment Community Teachers and Leaders

10. ARRA Reform Priority: Turning Around Struggling Schools System-Wide Capacity Turning Around Struggling Schools Aligned Instruction Effective Classroom Teaching & Learning School Environment Community Teachers and Leaders

11. ARRA Funding & Timeline

13. *Includes regular FY 09 appropriations

14. ARRA Planning Timelines

15. State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF)Phase II Overview

16. State Fiscal Stabilization Fund • The State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) total: $48.6 billion • Phase I – approximately $36.8 billion awarded to all 50 States, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, including 100% of Government Services Funds • $11.5 billion to be awarded in Phase II • Applications from governors Due January 11th

17. PURPOSE OF SFSF PHASE II APPLICATION • Transparency • Public reporting on state websites of data and plans regarding the four reform areas • Status and Planning • Indicators = data-related responses • Descriptors = narrative information (only three) • State Plan = explanation of progress toward providing the requested information • If a state cannot report the data requested by an Indicator or Descriptor, the state must create a plan to report the data as soon as possible – final deadline: September 30, 2011

18. RACE TO THE TOP

19. Competition Timeline Race to the Top – Phase 1 November 18, 2009 Notices published in the Federal Register January 19, 2010 Application deadline for Phase 1 April 2010 Winners announced for Phase 1 Feedback provided to applicants who do not win Race to the Top – Phase 2 June 1, 2010 Application deadline for Phase 2 September 2010 Winners announced for Phase 2

20. STATE SUCCESS FACTORS • Articulating State’s education reform agenda and LEAs’ participation in it • Building strong statewide capacity to implement, scale up, and sustain proposed plans • Demonstrating significant progress in raising achievement and closing gaps

21. PRIORITIES Priority 1: Absolute – Comprehensive Approach to Education Reform Priority 2: Competitive – Emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) NEW Priority 3: Invitational – Innovations for Improving Early Learning Outcomes Priority 4: Invitational – Expansion and Adaptation of Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Priority 5: Invitational – P-20 Coordination, Vertical and Horizontal Alignment Priority 6: Invitational – School-Level Conditions for Reform, Innovation, and Learning

22. GRANT COORDINATION Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems 95% of ARRA Grants Explicitly Require SEA – LEA Coordination 95% of ARRA Grants Explicitly Require SEA – LEA Coordination $250 million Teacher Incentive Fund Race to the Top $200 million SFSF Phase Two School Improvement Grants Teacher Quality Part. Investing in Innovation $4.35 billion $100 million $3.5 billion Teacher Incentive Fund Ed Tech $650 million $200 million $11.5 billion $650 million

23. ARRA Job Creation & Retention

24. Prime recipient Responsibilities Jobs creation & retention reporting requirements • Prime Recipients: Responsible for reporting all job creation/retention data on FederalReporting.gov • Prime recipients should provide the assumptions and estimation methodology needed by sub-recipients and vendors to produce jobs creation estimates. • Prime recipients are responsible for estimating any jobs they support and for collecting job data from their own vendors and from sub-recipients. • Job reporting cannot be delegated to sub-recipients – job creation/retention estimates can only be entered in FederalReporting.gov by prime recipients

25. Sub-recipient Responsibilities Jobs creation & retention reporting requirements • Sub-recipients: Responsible for producing job creation/retention estimates and a narrative describing the types of jobs (e.g., job titles) using the methodology and assumptions provided by the prime recipient • Sub-recipients are responsible for collecting job estimates from any vendors with employees directly charged to projects or activities funded by Recovery funds

26. When should a job be reported as created or retained? • In general, a job should be reported as created or retained if and only if that position would not have existed or been filled in absence of Recovery Act funds.

27. WHEN SHOULD A JOB BE REPORTED AS CREATED OR RETAINED – (CONT’D)? • Jobs do not need to be directly paid for by Recovery Act funds to be reported. For example, Recovery Act funds could be used to pay a bill, freeing up funds that could be used to pay salaries. • Jobs that are paid for with Recovery Act funds are not necessarily created or retained jobs. For example, Recovery Act funds could be used to temporarily pay all employee salaries, including employees that would have been employed in absence of the Recovery Act.

28. Which jobs should be reported? • Recipients should only include direct jobsin their job creation/retention estimates. • A direct job is a position that is funded by a prime recipient, sub-recipient, or vendor of a prime or sub recipient and that is being filled as a result of Recovery Act funding. • A direct job does not need to be paid for with Recovery Act funds as long as the position has been filled as a result of Recovery Act funding.

29. How should recipients estimate job creation & retention? • Hours Not People – The goal is to estimate the number of hours worked as a result of the Recovery Act, which can be used to determine the number of full-time equivalents (FTEs). The calculation will convert part-time employees into FTE jobs. • Reporting will be ‘cumulative’ so that each report will cover the job creation from the reporting start date through to the end of the current quarter. For example, if the first report covered the period from February 17,2009 to September 30, 2009, the second report would cover the period from February 17, 2009 to December 31, 2009.

30. RESOURCES ON ARRA REPORTING “Recipient Reporting Requirements” page at: http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/section-1512.html

31. For Additional information On ARRA Grants please visit: http://www.ed.gov

32. ARRA Contact Information • ASBO Website: www.asbointl.org • ASBO ARRA Blog: http://asbointl.org/index.asp?bid=29709 • State Fiscal Stabilization Fund: • State.Fiscal.Fund@ed.gov, Subject = ARRA • Title I, Part A Grants to LEAs: • oese@ed.gov, Subject = ARRA • IDEA, Parts B & C: • IDEARecoveryComments@ed.gov • Voc-Rehab, Indep. Living Srvcs & Centers for Indep. Living: • RSARecoveryActComments@ed.gov • Impact Aid: • impact.aid@ed.gov • ED-OIG Hotline: • oig.hotline@ed.gov, 1-800-MIS-USED • General Info: 1-800-USA-LEARN (1-800-872-5327)

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