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Obama Administration to Expand Race to the Top Funding

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

On the same day as the first deadline for states to apply for Race to the Top grants, President Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, visited Graham Road Elementary in Fairfax County, Virginia to announce their proposal for a $1.35 billion expansion of the grant program in this year’s budget. The President stated that this expansion will allow local school districts to apply for funds.

Forty states and the District of Columbia met the deadline for the first round of funding yesterday. States that did not apply, and states that do not receive grants in the first round, will be able to compete in the second round of competition, which is set for June.

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State Return on Investment Strategies Webinar

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Return on investment data is one of the most important factors that Congress and the Administration will look at to determine levels of funding for federal programs, like Perkins. On January 14, we hosted a webinar, State Return on Investment Strategies, that looked at the work being done in Oklahoma, Washington and Tennessee to collect data on the return on investment in CTE for the state and individuals. The presenters talked about how states are collecting return on investment data, what some of the results have been, and how this data is being used.

Presenters included:

If you missed it, don’t worry!  You can download an archived version of the webinar here.

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Innovative Uses of Perkins Reserve Fund

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Perkins IV gives recipients the opportunity to create a reserve fund to be used for new and innovative programs. The reserve fund represents an opportunity for states to exercise their leadership in directing funds to the program areas in their state with significant need, or areas that can introduce real innovation in CTE.

NASDCTEc has authored Innovative Uses of Perkins Reserve Fund, an issue brief that provides a history of the Perkins reserve fund, explains how it may be used, and highlights examples from several states – Tennessee, Maine, Maryland, South Dakota, and Kansas – that show the different ways in which the reserve fund can be tailored to meet state and local needs.

You can access a copy of the brief here.

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FY 2010 Appropriations Process Finally Completed

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Last week President Obama signed legislation that provides funding for six appropriations bills that had not yet been signed into law.  This includes the bill that funds the U.S. Department of Education.  As we have been aware for months, as this bill has slowly moved through Congress, there is no additional funding for programs supported through the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. These programs are all flat funded at the same level as last year.

So this closes the books on the FY 2010 Federal appropriations process.  The opening act of the FY 2011 process begins soon.  The first step is the release of the President’s recommendations for FY 2011 which are unveiled in early February.  We will of course continue to monitor and influence this process at the Administration level and then after February, when the focus turns to Congress writing appropriations bills, we will be working on Capitol Hill to remind our elected officials of the important role career technical education has in developing a well educated public and a skilled American workforce.

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Our First Sit Down With The New Assistant Secretary

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Kim Green and I were pleased to have our first formal meeting yesterday with OVAE Assistant Secretary Brenda Dann-Messier.  During the course of our 45 minute meeting we spoke broadly about a variety of topics as we all began to get to know each other better and lay the groundwork for a productive working relationship. 

We discussed the progress we are making on following up the ideas presented at the Fall Summit, the Race to the Top and Investing in Innovation (i3) funds, area career technical education centers, the importance of accountability, and leadership development.  We also shared some of our thoughts about the upcoming FY 2011 appropriations process as well as what the future may look like for CTE’s place in legislation such as the reauthorizations of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Workforce Investment Act.

The Assistant Secretary that many of us saw present at the Fall Summit in Baltimore is the same person we met with at her office yesterday: forthright, enthusiastic, goal oriented, and supportive of making CTE an important component of education policy. We look forward to a solid, positive relationship with the Assistant Secretary and the rest of the OVAE staff over the next several years.

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Community College Noncredit Occupational Programming Report by NRCCTE

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education’s report on Community College Noncredit Occupational Programming: A Study of State Policies and Funding revealed that noncredit programming has a range of definitions across states, policy variances for development and delivery and funding, and that many states do not have a centralized system for gathering and reporting data on noncredit programming.

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Still Awaiting Final Action on FY 10 Federal Appropriations

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

The new Federal fiscal year began October 1.  However, Congress has still not passed major appropriations bills to send to the President for his signature.  This includes the Labor HHS Education bill which is where funding for the Perkins Act is included.   The House of Representatives passed their Labor HHS Education bill on July 24. It includes flat funding for all programs authorized under the Perkins Act.   The Senate has not yet voted on their version of the bill.  It has only gotten as far as approval by the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 30.  That bill also includes flat funding for Perkins, so it is almost certain that we will see no increase in Perkins funding for FY 10. 

The Senate hopes to move the Labor HHS Education bill and their other remaining appropriations bills through the Senate floor before the end of the month.  Right now all Federal programs funded by bills which are not yet signed into law by the President (which includes 11 of the 12 appropriations bills) are being funded by a stop gap continuing resolution which will fund the government until October 31.  If Congress fails to get all of their bills passed by October 31, another continuing resolution will be passed to keep the government running.

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Meeting with Office of Management and Budget

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

This week Kim Green and I (along with Steve DeWitt and Jamie Baxter from ACTE) had a positive meeting at the Office of Management and Budget to discuss future Perkins funding.  We met with David Rowe, the Education Branch Chief and Christine Leininger, the program examiner responsible for career technical education within the education branch.   These two people play a critical role in the White House budget development process as OMB is part of the Executive Office of the President. 

They are just beginning their work on NEXT year’s budget proposal.  Here is how the process works.  Starting this week each agency submits their initial budget request to OMB.  Over the course of the next two months or so OMB and the agency discuss priorities, goals of the Administration, and budget realities to come up with the request that will be included in the President’s budget for each department.  Around Thanksgiving OMB lets each department know what the President’s request will be.  In DC terms this is known as the “pass back”.  While there may be some tweaking of the numbers over the ensuing several weeks, essentially this is the FY 2011 budget proposal that will be introduced by the President the first week of February and considered by Congress.

We let Mr. Rowe and Ms. Leininger know about changes and innovations that are taking place as a result of Perkins IV and talked about how the goals of the programs align with many of the Obama Administration’s priorities.   While it was important that we got to share this type of information with them, what was encouraging is that they were both knowledgeable about CTE and asked many questions about how the money is being spent,  accountability, demographics of students and programs, data collection and the various priorities for Perkins state by state.

We are going to be cultivating our relationship with OMB, sharing information, data and resources. This was a good first step in building a very important, long term partnership.

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New Teacher Project Releases Race To The Top Resource

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

The New Teacher Project, a national non-profit, released a brief last week that could serve as a tremendous resource for states applying for Race to the Top funding and for education leaders and policymakers pursuing reform.

The brief, Interpreting “Race to the Top”: TNTP Summary & Analysis of USDE Draft Guidelines, includes a summary of the Race to the Top application and selection criteria, an analysis of each of the four Race to the Top assurances (standards/assessments, data systems, effective teachers and leaders, and struggling schools), and a preliminary analysis of each state’s current competitiveness for funding, given its existing policy framework.

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Secretary Duncan Speaks About Innovation Grants

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

On August 20 Secretary Arne Duncan addressed a symposium sponsored by America’s Choice and ACT.  He laid out some of the details of the upcoming Investing in Innovation grant competition; now know in shorthand as i3.  The Secretary noted that a Notice of Proposed Priorities for the i3 fund will be published in the Federal Register “this fall”. There will be a comment period, followed by an application, and awards will be made in early 2010.  The Secretary stated that grants will fall into three categories:

Eligible grantees for these funds will be local education agencies (including charter schools) and non-profit organizations working in collaboration with one or more LEAs or a consortium of schools.

During his comments the Secretary, as he has done throughout his tenure, spoke about the role of charter schools, and echoed themes related to the importance of addressing the high school drop-out problem, President Obama’s goal of getting more Americans to get at least some postsecondary education, and the importance of American students being able to compete globally. 

The Secretary also stated clearly that he would like to change the relationship between the Department of Education and school districts.  He stated:

“I want the department to become an engine of innovation, not a compliance machine. I want the department to provide powerful incentives to states, districts, and non-profits to innovate–but at the same time leave most of the creative thinking and entrepreneurship for achieving our common goals in local hands. The best ideas will always come from local educators, not from here in Washington.”

A web stream of his 25 minutes presentation as well as the full text of his speech can be found on the U.S. Department of Education’s website at

http://www.edgovblogs.org/duncan/2009/08/i3-fund-goal-help-school-districts-answer-how-can-we-do-that-here/

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