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Maine Department of Education February 28- March 2, 2005
U.S. Department of Education Monitoring Team: Julie Coplin Peggy Miles Darcy Pietryka (Westat) Maine Department of Education Patrick Phillips, Deputy Commissioner Valerie Seaberg, Team Leader and Policy Director Tom Keller, Title II A Director and SAHE Coordinator Judith Malcolm, Team Leader and Policy Director John O’Brien, Distinguished Educator Nancy Ibarguen, Director of Certification Barbara Moody, Title II A Coordinator Darlene Tarr, Chief Accountant Overview of Maine: Number of Districts: 258 Number of Teachers: approximately 14,000 Total State Allocation (FY 2003): $13,965,246 Allocation for local educational agencies (LEAs): $13,134,314 State Educational Agency (SEA) State Activities Allocation: $345,640 State Agency for Higher Education (SAHE) Allocation: $345,640, plus $17,391 for administration Scope of Review: Like all State educational agencies (SEAs), the Maine Department of Education (MDE), 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” 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
Page 2 – Maine Monitoring Report 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 Maine had two purposes. One was to review the progress of the State in meeting the ESEA’s highly qualified teacher (HQT) requirements. The second was to review the use of ESEA Title II, Part A funds by the SEA, selected districts, 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 standards and to their full potential. The monitoring review was conducted on February 28- March 2, 2005, at the offices of the MDE. As part of the review, the Department monitoring team met with Tom Keller, SAHE Coordinator, and the representatives of the grantees. The monitoring team conducted conference calls with representatives of the Ellsworth, Hampden, and Thomaston school districts.
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Element Number Critical Element Has the State developed and implemented 1.1. procedures, consistent with the statutory definition of highly qualified, to determine whether all teachers of core academic subjects are highly qualified (§9101(23))? Critical Element Are all new elementary school teachers 1.2. (including special education teachers, as appropriate) required to pass a rigorous State test in reading, writing, mathematics, and the other areas of the elementary school curriculum to demonstrate subject-matter competency (§9101(23)(B)(II))? Critical Element Are all new middle and secondary school 1.3. teachers (including special education teachers, as appropriate) required to demonstrate subjectmatter competency, in each core academic subject they teach, consistent with §9101(23)(B)(II)(ii)? Critical Element Are all veteran (i.e., those who are not new to 1.4. the profession) elementary school teachers (including special education teachers, as appropriate) required to demonstrate subjectmatter competency by passing a rigorous State test or by completing the State’s “High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation” (HOUSSE) procedures (§9101(23)(C))? Critical Element Are all veteran middle and secondary teachers 1.5. (including special education teachers, as appropriate) required to demonstrate subjectmatter competency in each core academic subject they teach, consistent with §9101(23)(B)(II)(ii)? Critical Element For each set of HOUSSE procedures the State 1.6. has developed, can the State describe how it meets each of the statutory requirements in §9101(23)(C)(ii)? Monitoring Area 1: Highly Qualified Teacher Systems & Procedures Description Status Finding 7 Page
Page 4 – Maine Monitoring Report Critical Element Does the SEA ensure that, since the beginning 1.7. of the 2002-03 school year, districts only hire highly qualified teachers (including special education teachers, as appropriate) to teach in Title I programs? Critical Element Has the SEA ensured, since the beginning of the 1.8. 2002-03 school year, that districts that use ESEA Title II funds to reduce class size hire only highly qualified teachers for such positions? Critical Element Does the SEA’s plan establish annual 1.9. measurable objectives for each LEA and school to ensure that annual increases occur: • in the percentage of highly qualified teachers at each LEA and school; and • in the percentage of teachers who are receiving high-quality professional development to enable such teachers to become highly qualified and successful classroom teachers (§1119(a)(2)(A))? Critical Element Does the SEA also have a plan with specific 1.10. steps to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified and out-of-field teachers? Does the plan include measures to evaluate and publicly report the progress of such steps (§1111(b)(8)(C))? Critical Element Has the State reported to the Secretary in the 1.11. CSPR the number and percentage of core academic classes taught by highly qualified teachers, in the aggregate and in high-poverty schools, consistent with the statutory definition of highly qualified (§1111(h)(4)(G); §9101(23))? Critical Element Does the State prepare and disseminate to the 1.12. public an Annual State Report Card (§1111(h)(1)(C)(viii))? If so, how is it disseminated? Finding Commendation 10
Page 5 – Maine Monitoring Report Monitoring Area 2: Administration of ESEA Title II, Part A Description Status Does the SEA allocate funds according to the statute, using the most recent Census Bureau data as described in the Non-Regulatory Guidance (§2121(a))? Does the SEA require an application from each LEA before providing Title II, Part A funding? If yes, what information does the SEA require in the LEA application (§2122(b))? Does the SEA require each LEA to describe how the activities to be carried out are based on the required local needs assessment (§2122(b))? Does the SEA have a procedure to determine the amount of funds each LEA expended during the period of availability? Does the SEA have a procedure to regularly review the drawdowns of the LEAs? Does the SEA have a written policy on allowable carryover funds? If an LEA cannot obligate funds within the 27 months of availability (which includes the extra year of availability permitted under the Tydings amendment), does the SEA have a procedure for reallocating these funds to other LEAs? Does the SEA have records to show that each LEA meets the maintenance of effort requirements? Does the SEA ensure that it and its component LEAs are audited annually, if required, and that all corrective actions required through this process are fully implemented? Has the SEA identified and provided technical assistance to LEAs that are not making progress toward meeting their annual measurable objectives in meeting the highly qualified teacher challenge (§2141)? Met Requirements NA
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Page 6 – Maine Monitoring Report Monitoring Area 3: State Activities Description Does the State use its State Activities funds to promote the recruitment, hiring, training, and retention of highly qualified teachers and principals? Does the State support activities that focus on increasing the subject-matter knowledge of teachers and that assist teachers to become highly qualified?
Monitoring Area 4: State Agency For Higher Education (SAHE) Activities Description Status Did the SAHE manage a competition for eligible partnerships? Does the SAHE have procedures to ensure that eligible partnerships include the required members, i.e., an institution of higher education’s division that prepares teachers and principals, a higher education school of arts and sciences, and a high-need LEA? Met requirements Met requirements
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Critical Element 1.1: Has the State developed and implemented procedures, consistent with the statutory definition of highly qualified, to determine whether all teachers of core academic subjects are highly qualified (§9101(23))? Finding: Maine does not yet have in place a rigorous State test of content knowledge (see Critical Element 1.2 for further information) that new elementary teachers can pass to demonstrate content knowledge. Accordingly, no new elementary teachers have been able to demonstrate that they are highly qualified, and the State does not deem new elementary teachers to be highly qualified. Citation: The ESEA provisions governing teacher quality include basic requirements (§1119(a) and (b)) that all teachers of core academic subjects who teach in Title I programs and who were hired after the first day of the 2002-03 school year first demonstrate that they are highly qualified, and that all other teachers of core academic subjects in all public schools be highly qualified by the end of the 2005-06 school year. §9101(23) of the ESEA expressly defines a “highly qualified” teacher as one who has at least a bachelor’s degree, has full State certification, and has demonstrated competency in each subject he or she teaches in certain statutorily prescribed ways. The ESEA HQT provisions also include important requirements in §1111(h) of the ESEA regarding public reporting to the people of Maine and to the U.S. Secretary of Education (the Secretary) on the extent to which teachers of core academic subjects in the State’s school districts are highly qualified. Together, these several ESEA requirements are a critical part of the framework Congress established in NCLB for how States accepting Title I, Part A funds would be held accountable for providing to all students – and particularly those in Title I programs – teachers with the knowledge they need to help those students not only to meet or exceed their States’ academic achievement standards, but to achieve to their full academic potential. Further Action Required: As discussed more specifically in our determination for Critical Elements 1.2, 1.7 and 1.8 below, the MDE must submit a written plan with specific procedures and a timeline the State will implement to ensure that determinations of whether new elementary school teachers are highly qualified conform to the definition in §9101(23) and the timeline in §1119(a)(1) and (2). Critical Element 1.2: Are all new elementary school teachers (including special education teachers, as appropriate) required to pass a rigorous State test in reading, writing, mathematics, and the other areas of the elementary school curriculum to demonstrate subject-matter competency (§9101(23)(B)(II))? Finding: The State has adopted a test of subject knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and the other basic areas of the elementary curriculum for elementary school teachers new to the profession, but the test is currently optional and does not yet have established cut scores; passing it will not be required until September 2005. In
Page 8 – Maine Monitoring Report the interim, the State is allowing new teachers to take the test and apply the cut score retroactively. These individuals are not included in the State’s highly qualified teacher counts. Currently, the State does not identify elementary school teachers new to the profession – including special education teachers who provide direct instruction in core academic subjects, teachers hired to teach in Title I programs, and teachers hired with ESEA Title II funds for class-size reduction – as having the subject-matter competency needed to be highly qualified on the basis of earning an elementary education degree alone. These teachers will have to pass the assessment or go through HOUSSE in order to be deemed highly qualified. Thus, no new elementary teachers currently meet the HQT requirements. At the elementary level, the State has not determined if it will require new special education teachers to take the assessment required in September 2005 of new general education teachers. However, the majority of special education teachers at the elementary school level work in inclusion settings and do not teach core academic content. Citation: §9101(23)(B)(i)(II) of the ESEA permits elementary school teachers new to the profession to demonstrate subject-matter competency needed to be highly qualified only by passing a rigorous State test of subject knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and other areas of the basic elementary curriculum. §1119(a)(1) of the ESEA requires all teachers who are hired to teach in a Title I program after the first day of the 2002-03 school year to be highly qualified. §2123(a)(2)(B) of the ESEA allows districts to use ESEA Title II, Part A funds to recruit and hire highly qualified teachers to reduce class size. Further Action Required: The MDE must submit a written plan with specific procedures and a timeline for ensuring that all elementary school teachers new to the profession, including special education teachers who provide instruction in the elementary school core academic subjects, are highly qualified no later than the end of the 2005-06 school year. For elementary school teachers new to the profession who were hired after the beginning of the 2002-03 school year to teach in Title I programs, or who were hired with ESEA Title II, Part A funds to reduce class size, see also Critical Elements 1.7 and 1.8. Critical Element 1.3: Are all new middle and secondary school teachers (including special education teachers, as appropriate) required to demonstrate subject-matter competency, in each core academic subject they teach, in one or more of the following ways (§9101(23)(B)(II)(ii))? Finding 1: To be certified, the State does not require new middle and secondary school teachers of history, geography, civics/government, or economics to demonstrate subjectmatter competency in each of those subjects they teach. The State allows middle and secondary social studies teachers new to the profession to become certified by holding a general social studies degree. This degree requires 36 semester hours of content over the 4 discrete areas; no minimums are set for each area. As of September 2005, new social studies teachers will be required to take a social studies Praxis II test. However, the MDE has not yet decided if it will require the broad-field social studies exam or discrete exams
Page 9 – Maine Monitoring Report for each social studies area. The State counted as HQT only social studies teachers who had 24 credits in each of the content areas they teach. Citation: §9101(11) of the ESEA identifies history, geography, civics/government and economics as individual core academic subjects. §9101(23)(B)(ii) of the ESEA requires new teachers of core academic subjects to demonstrate subject-matter competency in each core academic subject they teach. (§9101(23)(C) does the same for teachers not new to the profession.) Further Action Required: The MDE must ensure that all history, geography, civics/government and economics teachers demonstrate subject-matter competency in each of these subjects that they teach, no later than the end of the 2005-06 school year. (In doing so, if the MDE has determined that the coursework requirement for an academic major in social studies provides coursework “equivalent to a major” in each or in a subset of these specific core academic subjects, it also will need to specifically explain the basis for its determination.) Finding 2: The State’s existing procedures and guidance may not reflect the requirement for middle and secondary school special education teachers who are new to the profession, and who provide direct instruction in core academic subjects, to demonstrate subject-matter competency. At the middle and secondary level, new special education teachers graduate with a degree in special education but must have 36 semester hours in a content area outside of special education. In September 2005, the MDE will begin requiring the Praxis II for special education; the State has not decided if it will require content-area assessments. However, the majority of special education teachers at the middle and secondary levels work in inclusion models and do not provide core academic content. The State counted as HQ only those special education teachers who have demonstrated specific subject-matter competency. Citation: §1119(a)(2) of the ESEA requires all teachers of core academic subjects to be highly qualified by the end of the 2005-06 school year. Recent amendments to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which the President signed into law on December 3, 2004, affirm that these requirements apply to special education teachers (while providing some flexibility for special education teachers of multiple subjects and who teach to alternate achievement standards for students with significant cognitive disabilities). Further Action Required: The MDE must ensure that all new special education teachers who provide direct instruction in core academic subjects be highly qualified, no later than the end of the 2005-06 school year, in each of the core academic subjects he/she teaches. (In doing so, if the MDE has determined that the coursework requirement for an academic major is “equivalent to a major,” it also will need to submit a specific explanation for the basis of its determination.)
Page 10 – Maine Monitoring Report (Note: The new IDEA amendments provide that: (1) Special education teachers teaching to alternate achievement standards for students with significant cognitive disabilities must meet the requirements of a highly qualified special education teacher at the elementary level. In the case of a special education teacher teaching above the elementary school level, the teacher must have subject-matter knowledge appropriate to the level of instruction being provided, as determined by the State, to effectively teach those standards. (2) New special education teachers teaching multiple subjects who meet the highly qualified standard in at least one core subject area (mathematics, English language arts and science) have two years from the date of employment to use the State’s HOUSSE to show subject-matter competence in other subjects. (3) Special education teachers who are not new to the profession and teach multiple subjects can use a State’s HOUSSE procedures to demonstrate subject-matter competence in the core academic subjects.) 1 Critical Element 1.7: Does the SEA ensure that, since the beginning of the 2002-03 school year, districts only hire highly qualified teachers (including special education teachers, as appropriate) to teach in Title I programs? Finding: The MDE does not have procedures to ensure that districts are hiring only highly qualified teachers for their Title I programs. Further, because new elementary teachers have not met the HQT requirement to demonstrate subject-matter competency, it is likely that districts in Maine have hired non-highly qualified teachers for their Title I programs. The State is enforcing parental notification requirements. Citation: §1119(a)(1) of the ESEA requires that all teachers hired after the first day of the 2002-03 school year to teach in Title I programs must be highly qualified. Further Action Required: The MDE must submit a written plan with specific procedures and a timeline for requiring LEAs in the State to ensure that all teachers hired to teach in Title I programs after the first day of the 2002-03 school year, including special education teachers providing direct instruction in core academic subjects, demonstrate that they are highly qualified in each core academic subject they teach, either by passing the State’s test for demonstrating subject-matter knowledge or by satisfying HOUSSE procedures established by the State, no later than the end of the 2005-06 school year. New teachers hired for the 2005-06 school year must demonstrate subject-matter competency before they can be hired in a Title I program.
Page 11 – Maine Monitoring Report Critical Element 1.8: Has the SEA ensured, since the beginning of the 2002-03 school year, that districts that use ESEA Title II, Part A funds to reduce class size hire only highly qualified teachers for such positions? Finding: The MDE does not have procedures to ensure that districts using ESEA funds to reduce class size hire only highly qualified teachers. Further, because new elementary teachers are not highly qualified, it is likely that districts in Maine have hired non-highly qualified teachers to reduce class size with ESEA Title II funds. Citation: §2123(a)(2)(B) of the ESEA allows districts to use ESEA Title II, Part A funds to recruit and hire highly qualified teachers to reduce class size. Further Action Required: The MDE must submit a written plan with specific procedures and a timeline for requiring LEAs in the State to ensure that all teachers hired after the first day of the 2002-03 school year, including special education teachers providing direct instruction in core academic subjects, be highly qualified prior to being hired with ESEA Title II funds to reduce class size. For those teachers already hired, the State must ensure that they become highly qualified as soon as possible, and certainly before the end of the 2005-06 school year. Critical Element 1.9: Does the SEA’s plan establish annual measurable objectives for each LEA and school to ensure that annual increases occur: • in the percentage of highly qualified teachers at each LEA and school; and • in the percentage of teachers who are receiving high-quality professional development to enable such teachers to become highly qualified and successful classroom teachers (§1119(a)(2)(A)). Finding: The State is in its first year of data collection, and thus does not have a written plan that establishes annual measurable objectives, nor can it track annual district progress toward having teachers in all districts and public schools meet the highly qualified requirements by the end of the 2005-06 school year. Citation: §1119(a)(2)(A) of the ESEA requires each SEA to develop a plan to ensure that all teachers teaching core academic subjects within the State are highly qualified by the end of the 2005-06 school year. This plan must establish annual measurable objectives for each LEA and school that includes an annual increase in the percentage of highly qualified teachers at each LEA and school and the percentage of teachers receiving high-quality professional development. Further Action Required: The MDE must submit a written plan with specific procedures and a timeline for implementing this requirement. The revised plan must include, among other things, annual measurable objectives for each LEA and school that includes an annual increase in the percentage of highly qualified teachers in each LEA and school and in the percentage of teachers receiving high-quality professional development.
Page 12 – Maine Monitoring Report Critical Element 1.12: Does the State prepare and disseminate to the public an Annual State Report Card (§1111(h)(1)(C)(viii))? If so, how is it disseminated? Finding: The MDE submitted HQT data for the Consolidated State Performance Report in the required format. However, the State did not include the required HQT data in the State’s annual report card. Citation: §1111(h)(1)(C)(viii) of the ESEA requires each SEA to include in its Annual State Report Card data on the percentage of classes in the State not taught (in core academic subjects) by highly qualified teachers, in the aggregate and disaggregate by highpoverty (as the term is defined in §1111(h)(1)(C)(viii) of the ESEA) compared to lowpoverty schools. Further Action Required: The MDE must report to the public, as required by §1111(h)(1)(C)(viii), on the percentage of classes not taught by highly qualified teachers at all grade levels (and disaggregated by high-and low-poverty schools).
Critical Element 2.3: Does the SEA require each LEA to describe how the activities to be carried out are based on the required local needs assessment? Recommendation: The MDE expressed concerns about the uneven quality of needs assessments across the districts. The monitoring team discussed options with the MDE staff, such as working with districts, perhaps regionally, to provide technical assistance on conducting a needs assessment and using data. The MDE may also request and review the results of the districts’ needs assessments to ensure a district’s planned activities and funds are based on the local needs assessment. Critical Element 2.6: Does the SEA have a written policy on allowable carryover funds? No, the State does not have a written procedure governing the amount of funds that a district may carry over. Though the State has procedures in place for reviewing carryover funds, the monitoring team suggested to the MDE that a written plan would be beneficial for responsible fiscal management and oversight. Recommendation: The State should create written procedures governing the amount of carryover a district may keep from year to year. The procedures should cover the appropriate range of carryover amounts, LEA notification to the State regarding carryover and a justification for why it is necessary, and a plan for obligating such funds in a timely manner.
Page 13 – Maine Monitoring Report Critical Element 2.7: If an LEA cannot obligate funds within the 27 months of availability (which includes the extra year of availability permitted under the Tydings amendment), does the SEA have a procedure for reallocating these carryover funds to other LEAs? No, the State does not have a written procedure for reallocating excess carryover funds, or unclaimed funds, to other LEAs. Though the State has procedures in place, the monitoring team suggested to the MDE that a written plan would be beneficial for responsible fiscal management and oversight. Recommendation: The State should create written procedures for reallocating excess carryover or unclaimed funds to other LEAs in a timely manner. The monitoring team suggested adopting procedures similar to those used with Title I funds. Critical Element 2.10: Has the SEA identified and provided technical assistance to LEAs that are not making progress toward meeting their annual measurable objectives in meeting the highly qualified teacher challenge? Finding: The SEA has not established annual measurable objectives for LEAs, and thus has not identified LEAs who are not making progress in meeting their annual measurable objectives for highly qualified teachers. Citation: §2141(a) and (b) of the ESEA requires, for an LEA that has not made progress toward meeting its annual measurable objectives for two consecutive years, that the LEA develop an improvement plan to enable it to meet its objectives. In addition, the SEA is required to provide technical assistance to the LEA during the development and implementation of the improvement plan. (§2141(c) establishes further accountability requirements for districts that have not made progress in meeting their annual measurable objectives for 3 consecutive years and that have not made adequate yearly progress in their student achievement measures for 3 consecutive years). Further Action Required: As per Critical Element 1.9, the MDE must submit a written plan with specific procedures and a timeline to establish annual measurable objectives for each LEA and school that includes annual increases in the percentage of highly qualified teachers in each LEA and school and in the percentage of teachers who are receiving highquality professional development. Further, the State must identify and provide technical assistance to LEAs that are not meeting their annual measurable objectives.
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