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Here's a response from my inquiry... I also had a question about the
reliability of the WASL which is answered in the second paragraph. 

-- Cynthia

-Original Message----- From: Fuhrman, Laura Sent: Monday, June 09,
2003 3:10 PM

Subject: RE: State Budget and NCLB

Michele:
 
I recently asked the question of OSPI; how much are we receiving vs.
how much are we paying for the No Child Left Behind Act? Staff tells
me that no analysis has been done and the Superintendent would need to
be the one making the decision to undertake such a study.  
 
The State Board of Education is the entity determining validity and
reliability of the WASL, which will have to be determined prior to
2008. In a legal context these issues must me determined prior to
making the passing of the WASL a graduation requirement, otherwise
there would be grounds for lawsuits, that will likely come regardless.
 
Laura Fuhrman Research Analyst House Republican Caucus Education &
Higher Education 360-786-7997 



       Friends: No. 1.  Below are two URLs to study the new 2003-05
state Budget.  For the SPI budget begin at Section 501.  Please study
Section 509, where we appropriate $46,198,000 for NCLB Act.  Then in
Section 513 is $128,402,000 for more Federal activities related to
NCLB.  I am confused here, so need some help. How much exactly is
Washington State getting from the feds under NCLB?  For sure The SPI
has total budget of $204,010,000 for "School Reform." 






       State Budget Web Sites: SPI begins at Section 501.

http://www.k12.wa.us/Legis/2003documents/Recommendation%20Summaries.pdf




http://www.k12.wa.us/legis/2003documents/Senate%20Conference.pdf




       No. 2.  Susan Ohanian has a must read paper in the June Phi
Delta Kappan, " Capitalism, Calculus, and Conscience."  Pages 736-747,
volume 84, No. 10, June 2003. 


       In the same issue, Gerald Bracey shows how the USDoEd lies
again, see, page 795 for "PIRLS Before the Press."




       No. 3.  I just received Peter Sacks book Standardized Minds.
This is absolutely must reading.  Copies are available at great
discounts on Amazon.com.  Read his take on "The Crew Effect" on test
scores in Tacoma.  Althouigh published in 1999 it reads like today's
news!


       Thanks for your patience.  And I do need help in figuring out
the state take from the Feds and how much it costs us to get a federal
buck.  Please give me your analysis.  Don


Orlich


Cynthia Woods
Bonney Lake, WA 
OSPI responds:

Megan from OSPI says this about Section 509... "That budget section is the section dealing with local effort assistance or LEA.  These are the state dollars sent to districts to equalize levy dollars.  These are state general fund dollars, not federal dollars.  Additionally, the federal dollars referenced in section 513 are the federal dollars associated with Title I and Title II programs.  As you know, we have had Title I and Title II programs for quite some time.  The latest version of the federal ed legislation is NCLB but we have had these Titles and the associated programs in some form for quite some time." 

 --Megan 



Is that right? $200 million dollars????? Yeesh.