Source Form #28

Title:  Carla Wade from the Oregon Department of Education Interview           

 

What kind of work do you do with Title I-A funds?

Works with anything on Title IA districts.  Monitoring and allocations and looking through assessments to determine whether standards are being met.

 

 

Could you tell me about any new plans with Title I-A and how the new administration is having an affect on them?

Will be getting more funds and the focus is the same “To improve acheivment with disadvantaged students.”  We’ve improved kids as a whole to improve their education but its difficult because you get new kids through pipeline every year.

Its getting more funds to the schools in need that have not met AYP for two years.  Believes the current structure is providing the most need schools with the money.

Educators who go in to districts to work with them specifically are Oregon School improvement facilitators—go in to work one on one with the school and help them review their data and find out what their issues are.  They help with them strategic planning. 

 

 

What do you hope will happen as changes are being made by Secretary Duncan?

We all hope that we are going to meet the needs of all of our students and help them meet the needs with their counterparts across the world.  We want them to be as well prepared as they can be for the workplace. 

 

 

Are you receiving any funding from the new stimulus package?

Ed.gov page. 

If so what are you going to be putting it towards?

Money allocations will vary from district to district.  Some will be for title I teachers to assist students in need.  Reteaching.. Some will be for additional resources—books, hardware and software.  The allocations are really dependent on what the district data is showing which will determine what in fact a particular district or school will need.

If not, why are you not receiving any funding?

 

 

NCLB name for what was reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act.  The title keeps on changing but the funds for the grants within will never go away.  The guidance of the Department of Education changes and it puts

Title IA—allocations set here set the bar for the rest of the allocations among the rest of the Title Funds.  These allocations are the determining factor in what other allocations should be made.

 

Is there anything else I should know about Title I-A funds?

It is hard to prove whether this works across the nation because every state has there own set of guidelines to follow—in regards to the assessments.  At this point within the law a national test would not work because it is not set up to work; however, if they changed the law and put a national standard for teachers the national assessment level could work.

 

Tests are different from state-to-state.  If we had a national test all teachers would be expected to teach at the same level.

 

You can’t do one test that meets all the different standards of states across the U.S. because the law does not build those standards into the expectations of the teachers.

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