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November 1, 2007 HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS AND IMPROVING TEACHER QUALITY STATE GRANTS (ESEA TITLE II, PART A) MONITORING
Rhode Island Department of Education June 19-21, 2007
U.S. Department of Education Monitoring Team:
James Butler Elizabeth Witt Allison Henderson (Westat)
Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE):
Paulajo Gaines, Director, Office of Educator Quality and Certification Barrie Grossi, Rhode Island Technical Assistance Project, Office of Special Populations Elliott Kreiger, Executive Assistant for Communications, Office of the Commissioner David Luther, Grant Officer, Office of Finance Steven Olsen, Educator Quality and Certification Specialist, Office of Educator Quality and Certification
State Agency for Higher Education (SAHE):
Nancy Carriuolo, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Academic and Student Affairs Bryan Joffe, SAHE Coordinator, Office of Academic and Student Affairs Aronda Rodgers, Office of Academic and Student Affairs LEAs participating in the monitoring visit 1. Providence School District (on-site visit) 2. Newport School District (telephone interview) 3. Central Falls School District (telephone interview)
Number of LEAs: 48 Number of Schools: 321 Number of Teachers: 13,007
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State Allocation (FY 20051) LEA Allocation (FY 2005) “State Activities” (FY 2005) SAHE Allocation (FY 2005) SEA Administration (FY 2005) SAHE Administration (FY 2005) $13,895,209 $13,068,445 $343,906 $343,906 $121,561 $17,391 State Allocation (FY 20062) LEA Allocation (FY 2006) “State Activities” (FY 2006) SAHE Allocation (FY 2006) SEA Administration (FY 2006) SAHE Administration (FY 2006) $13,751,559 $12,933,342 $340,351 $340,351 $120,124 $17,391
Like all State educational agencies (SEAs), the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), as a condition of receiving funds under Title I, Part A and Title II, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), provided an assurance to the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) that it would administer these programs in accordance with all applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, including those in Title I, Part A that concern “Highly Qualified Teachers” (HQT) and those that govern the use of Title II, Part A funds. See §9304(a)(1) of the ESEA. One of the specific requirements the Department established for an SEA’s receipt of program funds under its consolidated State application (§9302(b)) was submission to the Department of annual data on how well the State has been meeting its performance target for Performance Indicator 3.1: “The percentage of classes being taught by ‘highly qualified’ teachers (as the term is defined in §9101(23) of the ESEA), in the aggregate and in ‘high-poverty’ schools (as the term is defined in §1111(h)(1)(C)(viii) of the ESEA).” The Department’s monitoring visit to Rhode Island had two purposes. One was to review the progress of the State in meeting ESEA’s highly qualified teacher requirements. The second was to review the use of ESEA Title II, Part A funds by the SEA, selected LEAs and the State agency for higher education (SAHE), to ensure that the funds are being used to prepare, retain and recruit high-quality teachers and principals so that all children will achieve to a high academic achievement standard and to their full potential.
Page 3—Rhode Island Summary of Monitoring Indicators State Educational Agency
Critical Element I.1. I.2. Requirement The State has established appropriate HQT requirements for all teachers who teach core subjects. The State has established appropriate HQT requirements for special education teachers who teach core academic subjects. Teachers who are enrolled in approved alternative certification programs AND who have already earned a bachelor’s degree AND successfully demonstrated subject matter competence may be counted as highly qualified for a period of 3 years. The SEA ensures that all teachers hired after the first day of the 2002-03 school year to teach in Title I programs were highly qualified at the time of hire. The SEA ensures that all teachers paid with Title II, Part A funds for class size reduction are highly qualified. The SEA ensures that all LEAs that receive Title I funds notify parents of their right to request and receive information on the qualifications of their children’s teachers. The SEA ensures that all schools that receive Title I funds notify parents when their children are taught by teachers who are not highly qualified. The SEA reports annually to the Secretary in the Consolidated State Performance Report (CSPR) the number and percentage of classes taught by highly qualified teachers, in the aggregate and in high- and low-poverty schools. The SEA has published an annual report card with the required teacher information. The SEA has ensured that LEAs have published annual report cards with the required teacher information for both the LEA and the schools it serves. The SEA ensures that each LEA that has not met annual measurable objectives for highly qualified teachers for two consecutive years has an improvement plan in place and that the SEA has provided technical assistance to the LEA in formulating the plan. The SEA enters into an agreement on the use of funds with any LEA that has not made progress toward meeting its annual measurable objectives in meeting the highly qualified teacher challenge for three consecutive years and has also failed to make AYP for three Citation §9101(23) §602(10) of the IDEA Status Met Requirement Commendation Met Requirement Page 5
(34 CFR 200.56(a)(2)(ii))
§1119(a)(1)
§2123(a)(2)(B)
§1111(h)(6)(A)
§1111(h)(6)(B)(ii)
§1111(h)(4)(G)
II.B.1. II.B.2.
§1111(h)(1)(C)(viii) §1111(h)(2)(B)
Findings Recommendation Met Requirement Recommendation
§2141(a) and §2141(b)
Met Requirement Recommendations Finding
§2141(c)
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Critical Element Requirement years. The SEA has a plan in place to ensure that poor and minority students are not taught at higher rates than other students by inexperienced, unqualified or out-of-field teachers. The SEA ensures that LEA plans include an assurance that through the implementation of various strategies, poor and minority students are not taught at higher rates than other students by inexperienced, unqualified- or outof-field teachers. Once hold-harmless provisions are taken into consideration, the SEA allocated additional funds to LEAs using the most recent Census Bureau data found at http: //www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/ district.html. The SEA has ensured that LEAs have completed assessments of local needs for professional development. To be eligible for Title II, Part A funds, LEAs must “submit an application to the State educational agency at such time, in such manner and containing such information as the State educational agency may reasonably require.” The SEA has ensured that LEAs maintain effort. The SEA ensures that LEA funds do not supplant other, non-Federal funds. The SEA and LEAs are audited, as required by EDGAR §80.26. The SEA regularly and systematically monitors LEAs for compliance with Federal statutes and regulations, applicable State rules and policies and the approved sub-grantee application, as required by EDGAR §76.770 and §80.40(a). The SEA ensures that LEAs comply with requirements with regards to services to eligible nonpublic schools. The SEA ensures that State-level activity funds are expended on allowable activities. The SEA ensures that State-level activity funds do not supplant other, non-Federal funds. Citation Status Page
§1111(b)(8)(C)
§1112(c)(1)(L)
§2121(a)
§2122(c)
Met Requirement Recommendation
§2122(b)
IV.B.1. IV.B.2. IV.B.3.
§9521 §2123(b) EDGAR §80.26 EDGAR §76.770 and §80.40(a)
Met Requirement Met Requirement Commendation Met Requirement 8
IV.B.5. V.1. V.2.
§9501 §2113(c) §2113(f)
Met Requirement Commendation Met Requirement Recommendation Met Requirement
Critical Element 1. Requirement The SAHE manages a competition to award grants to carry out appropriate professional development activities. Citation §2132 and §2133 Status Page
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Critical Element 2. Requirement The SAHE works in conjunction with the SEA (if the two are separate agencies) in awarding the grants. The SAHE awards grants only to eligible partnerships that include at least an institution of higher education and the division of the institution that prepares teachers and principals, a school of arts and sciences and a high-need LEA. The SAHE ensures that each partnership awarded a grant engages in eligible activities. The SAHE has procedures in place to ensure that no partner uses more than 50 percent of the funds in the grant. Citation §2132(a) Status Page
§2132(c)
The SAHE regularly and systematically monitors grantees for compliance with Federal statutes and regulations, applicable State rules and policies and the approved sub-grantee application, as required by EDGAR §76.770 and §80.40(a)
EDGAR §76.770 and §80.40(a)
Area I: HQT Definitions and Procedures
Critical Element I.1: The State has established appropriate HQT requirements for all teachers who teach core subjects. Citation: §9101(23) Commendation: Rhode Island is commended for its effective outreach to districts, schools and teachers on the implementation of HQT definitions and data collection. Critical Element I.4: The SEA ensures that all teachers hired after the first day of the 2002-03 school year to teach in Title I programs were highly qualified at the time of hire. Citation: §1119(a)(1) Finding: Through the ED monitoring process, it was discovered that unbeknownst to the SEA that at least one LEA had hired non-HQTs to teacher in Title I programs. Further Action Required: Within 30 business days, the State must develop a corrective action plan for districts that are found to hire non-HQTs in Title I schools.
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Area II: HQT Data Reporting and Verification
Critical Element II.A.1: The SEA reports annually to the Secretary in the Consolidated State Performance Report (CSPR) the number and percentage of classes taught by highly qualified teachers, in the aggregate and in high- and low-poverty schools. Citation: §1111(h)(4)(G) Finding 1: The State is counting special education classes incorrectly in its determination of the number of classes that are taught by HQT at the secondary level. The State has a plan to correct these data for 2007-08, but will remain out of compliance until accurate data are reported to ED. Further Action Required: Within 30 business days and on a regular basis thereafter, Rhode Island must provide progress reports to ED showing that it is on track in implementing the required changes to the Personnel Assignment Process (PAP). ED anticipates that Rhode Island will be able to accurately collect and report the number of classes taught by HQT status for secondary special education teachers by the end of the 2007-08 school year. Finding 2: Rhode Island does not have adequate monitoring or audit procedures in place for the review and validation of HQT data, which calls into question the accuracy and quality of the data. For example, only by accident did the State uncover errors in an LEA misclassification of a teacher because of the incorrect use of HOUSSE. The discovery was not made through established quality control procedures or through sub-grantee monitoring. Further Action Required: Within 30 business days, the State must submit to ED a plan and a timeline indicating how it will institute practices to ensure that HQT data reported by LEAs are accurate and complete so that the State may report accurately to the Department. Recommendation: The State heavily relies on teachers self-reporting their HQT status. Documentation is maintained at the local level, most often at the school building. To ensure local compliance in determining HQT status and in reporting high quality HQT data, it is recommended that the State adopt and implement more stringent review and monitoring procedures such as a random audit of HQT records or systematic monitoring of LEA’s HQT data. Also see Finding under Critical Element IV.B.4. Critical Element II.B.1: The SEA has published an annual report card with the required teacher information. Citation: §1111(h)(1)(C)(viii) Finding 1: The State is counting special education classes incorrectly in its determination of the number of classes that are taught by HQTs at the secondary level. The data currently presented in the report cards are inaccurate. The State has a plan to correct these data for 2007-08, but will remain out of compliance until accurate data are reported to ED. Further Action Required: Within 30 business days and on a regular basis thereafter, Rhode Island must provide progress reports to ED showing that it is on track in implementing the required changes to the Personnel Assignment Process (PAP). ED is anticipating that Rhode Island will be able to accurately collect and report the number of classes taught by HQT status for secondary special education teachers by the end of the 2007-08 school year.
Page 7—Rhode Island Finding 2: Rhode Island does not have adequate monitoring or audit procedures in place for the review and validation of HQT data, which calls into question the accuracy and quality of the data. For example, only by accident did the State uncover errors in an LEA misclassification of a teacher because of the incorrect use of HOUSSE. The discovery was not made through established quality control procedures or through sub-grantee monitoring. Also see Finding under Critical Element IV.B.4. Further Action Required: Within 30 business days, the State must submit to ED a plan and a timeline indicating how it will institute practices to ensure that HQT data reported by LEAs are accurate and complete so that the State may report accurately to the Department. Recommendation: The State heavily relies on teachers self-reporting their HQT status. Documentation is maintained at the local level, most often at the school building. To ensure local compliance in determining HQT status and in reporting high quality HQT data, it is recommended that the State adopt and implement more stringent review and monitoring procedures such as a random audit of HQT records or systematic monitoring of LEA’s HQT data. Critical Element II.B.2: The SEA has ensured that LEAs have published annual report cards with the required teacher information for both the LEA and the schools it serves. Citation: §1111(h)(2)(B) Recommendation: The State publishes comprehensive HQT and other teacher quality data in its State Report Card for schools and districts. It is recommended that the State encourage LEAs to link to the Information Works! Website on their local Websites.
Area III: HQT Plans
Critical Element III.A.1: The SEA ensures that each LEA that has not met annual measurable objectives for highly qualified teachers for 2 consecutive years has an improvement plan in place and that the SEA has provided technical assistance to the LEA in formulating the plan. Citation: §2141(a) and §2141(b) Recommendation 1: The State should consider officially revising its HQT plan on a regular basis so that LEAs and the public have access to the most current information. If the State makes changes, the Department of Education would like to know about them. Recommendation 2: In order to ensure that all LEAs have plans in place to address any core subject classes that are not taught by HQTs, the State should be more diligent in enforcing plan submission deadlines. Several districts missed the deadline with little consequence. Recommendation 3: Given the critical role of teacher quality in school reform, it is recommended that staff from the offices of Educator Quality and Certification and Progressive Support and Intervention (PSI) collaborate more effectively. For example, the State may want to consider placing Educator Quality staff on PSI teams to ensure that issues of teacher quality and support are addressed. Similarly, PSI staff may be of assistance to LEAs as they develop and implement their HQT plans. Critical Element III.A.2: The SEA enters into an agreement on the use of funds with any LEA that has not made progress toward meeting its annual measurable objectives in meeting the highly
Page 8—Rhode Island qualified teacher challenge for three consecutive years and has also failed to make AYP for three years. Citation: §2141(c) Finding: The SEA does not have a comprehensive plan in place for entering into an agreement with any LEA that has not made progress toward meeting its annual measurable objectives in meeting the HQT challenge for three consecutive years and has also failed to make AYP for three years Further Action Required: Within 30 business days, the State must provide documentation that it has a plan in place for entering into an agreement with any LEA that has not made progress toward meeting its annual measurable objectives in meeting the HQT challenge for three consecutive years and has also failed to make AYP for three years. This action is particularly important because several LEAs in the State are in a position to be subject to §2141(c) requirements at this time or in the near future. Critical Element III.B.1: The SEA has a plan in place to ensure that poor and minority students are not taught at higher rates than other students by inexperienced, unqualified or out-of-field teachers. Citation: §1111(b)(8)(C) Commendation: The State is commended for using the equitable distribution plan to encourage districts to conduct in-depth reviews of gap and trend data to ensure that poor and minority students are not taught at higher rates than other students by inexperienced, unqualified or out-of field teachers within and across districts.
Area IV: Administration of Title II, Part A
Critical Element IV.A.2: The SEA has ensured that LEAs have completed assessments of local needs for professional development. Citation: §2122(c) Recommendation: The State may want to expand the current School Accountability for Learning and Teaching (SALT) teacher survey to include the perceived needs of teachers to feed into the assessment of local professional development needs and the planning of State activities funded by Title II, Part A. Critical Element IV.B.2: The SEA ensures that LEA funds do not supplant other, non-Federal funds. Citation: §2123(b) Commendation: The State is commended for its efforts in providing guidance and technical assistance to LEAs on the issue of supplementing not supplanting Title II, Part A funds. Critical Element IV.B.4: The SEA regularly and systematically monitors LEAs for compliance with Federal statutes and regulations, applicable State rules and policies and the approved sub-grantee application. Citation: EDGAR §76.770 and §80.40(a)
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Finding: The State is not monitoring LEAs to ensure they are in compliance with Federal statutes and regulations. Further Action Required: Within 30 business days, the State must submit to ED a plan and a timeline indicating how it will develop a systematic process and schedule for Title II, Part A program monitoring. Recommendation: In order to reduce staff burden, the State may want to consider conducting Title II, Part A monitoring in conjunction with other State and Federal program reviews. Critical Element IV.B.5: The SEA ensures that LEAs comply with requirements with regards to services to eligible nonpublic schools. Citation: §9501 Commendation: The State is commended for its outreach to nonpublic schools to ensure their equitable participation in Title II, Part A programs and services. Not only do LEAs send letters to nonpublic schools informing them of their opportunities to participate, but they also hold conference calls with them to discuss services and why they should participate.
Area V: Title II, Part A State-Level Activities
Critical Element V.1: The SEA ensures that State-level activity funds are expended on allowable activities. Citation: §2113(c) Recommendation: The State may want to expand the current School Accountability for Learning and Teaching (SALT) teacher survey to include the perceived needs of teachers to feed into the assessment of local professional development needs and the planning of State activities funded by Title II, Part A.
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