Utah State Board of Education July 16, 2013. Debra Roberts ◦ Chair, Utah State Board of Education ◦ Chair, Audit Committee, USBE ◦ BA, English, BYU

Utah State Board of EducationJuly 16, 2013

Debra Roberts◦Chair, Utah State

Board of Education◦Chair, Audit

Committee, USBE◦BA, English, BYU

Overview of the State Board of Education◦ Dave Crandall◦ Jennifer Johnson

Utah Core Standards◦ Tami Pyfer◦ Dave Thomas

What is Next◦ Heather Groom◦ Jefferson Moss

David Crandall◦Vice Chair, Utah State

Board of Education◦Software Engineer◦MS, Mechanical

Engineering, University of Utah

Jennifer Johnson◦Chair, School Trust

Investment Task Force

◦CFA Charterholder◦Investment Fund

Manager◦MBA, BYU

UTAH PUBLIC EDUCATION GOVERNANCE

The general control and supervision of public education shall be vested in a Board of Education. The membership of the board shall be established and elected by statute. The State Board of Education shall appoint a State Superintendent of Public Instruction who shall be the executive officer of the board.

Article X, Section 3, Utah Constitution

PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

UTAH PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM

State Superintendent

Executive Officer

Veto Power

Board Election Process

District Schools

General Control & Supervision(Educational

standards, licensing, programs & fiscal administration)

Establish School System

NCLB, Reduced Lunch, Title I & IDEA

Funding & Programs

Utah State Office of Education

Staff

Utah State Board of EducationExecutive Authority

Federal Government

Utah State Legislature

School system, budget, & programs

UtahGovernor

District School Boards

State CharterSchool Board

CharterSchools

District Superintendents

WHAT DOES THE STATE BOARD DO?

Appoint State Superintendent

Adopt Administrative Rules to implement

statutes & policies (151 Rules)

Establish minimum standards for all

public schools

Licensure of educators

Prepare annual Budget and approve

disbursements to local districts and charter

schools

Audit the Public School System

Implement the Utah Performance

Assessment System

Administer federal programs (Special Ed &

Title I)

Adopt Graduation

Requirements

Career & Technical Education

Approve Charter Schools

Utah School for the Deaf and Blind

School Trust Lands and Trust

Fund

Utah State Office of Rehabilitation

(Adult Education)

Define, Establish and Implement a Core

Curriculum (Standards)





public schools




schools



Assessment System


Title I)

Adopt Graduation

Requirements





Fund


(Adult Education)



ADMINISTRATIVE RULES

Administrative rules implementing Utah statute and board policies

are written, reviewed or updatedat almost every Board meeting (151 rules)

WHAT IS THE STATE BOARD DOING?





public schools




schools



Assessment System


Title I)

Adopt Graduation

Requirements





Fund


(Adult Education)



STATE SUPERINTENDENT

Full Board participation in the evaluation of the State Superintendent this year.






public schools




schools



Assessment System


Title I)

Adopt Graduation

Requirements





Fund


(Adult Education)



LICENSURE OF EDUCATORS

Task force studying improvements to

licensure discipline for misconduct






public schools




schools



Assessment System


Title I)

Adopt Graduation

Requirements





Fund


(Adult Education)



SCHOOL TRUST LANDS AND TRUST FUND

Task force studying the investment oversight of the permanent State Trust Fund

with appointees from the Senate,House, Treasurer, and Governor

(reports on August 2, 2013)






public schools




schools



Assessment System


Title I)

Adopt Graduation

Requirements





Fund


(Adult Education)



CORE STANDARDS

Every five to seven years the Utah Core Standards

are reviewed and updated


• Increase proficiency in reading and math• Increase high school graduation rates• Implement the Utah Core Standards• Computer Adaptive Assessments• Implement the ACT assessments

• EXPLORE–8th grade• PLAN–10th grade• ACT–11th grade

Standards

Curriculum

Assessments

ACT/SAT

College

HOW DO WE GET THERE?

Standards

Curriculum

Assessments

ACT/SAT

College

HOW DO WE GET THERE?

Tami W. Pyfer◦ Chair, Communication

Committee, USBE◦ Clinical Instructor, College of

Education, Utah State University

◦ Program Specialist, Utah Commission on Character and Civic Education

◦ MEd, Early Childhood Special Education, Utah State University

David L. Thomas◦ Chair, Accountability and

Finance Committee, USBE◦ Chief Civil Deputy Summit

County Attorney◦ JD Law, College of William

& Mary

Fine Arts

Health Education

English Language

ArtsMathematics

Science Social Studies

World Languages

FinancialLiteracy

Pre-K

Physical Education

Educational Technology

UTAH CORE STANDARDS

CTEStandards

Fine Arts

Health Education

English Language

ArtsMathematics

Science Social Studies

World Languages

FinancialLiteracy

Pre-K

Physical Education

Educational Technology

UTAH CORE STANDARDS

CTEStandards

What it is State partnership for reform of education standards

◦ English Language Arts◦ Math

Partnership of 48 states◦ National Governors Association (elected)◦ Council of Chief State School Officers (elected & appointees)

Led by the data and experts

What it is not Not federal standards

◦ No federal funds◦ No involvement of the US Department of Education (US ED)◦ Not a curriculum◦ Not a student database◦ Not part of FERPA (privacy law)◦ Not part of No Child Left Behind◦ Not part of Race to the Top

Math Work Team52 Math & educational professionals

18 University mathematics/statistics professors

Math Feedback Team22 Math & educational professionals

9 University mathematics/statistics professors

English Work Team50 English & educational professionals

11 University English and education professors

English Feedback Team12 English & educational professionals

5 University English and education professors

Participating schools: Yale, Arizona State, UC Berkeley, Georgia, Missouri, Minnesota, Vermont, LSU, Arkansas, Maryland, Arizona, Florida, Harvard, Texas, Johns Hopkins, Cal Poly, Arizona State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Stanford, North-western, Ohio State, Illinois, UC Davis, Michigan, Georgia,

Pittsburg, Brown, Emory, Oregon, Florida State, Illinois, Wyoming

• Dr. Peter E. Trapa, Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah• Dr. David Wiley, Director of Research, Center for Improvement of Teacher Education,

Brigham Young University• Dr. Hugo Rossi, Director of the Center for Science and Math Education, University of Utah• Dr. Emina Alibegovic, Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah• Dr. James Cangelosi, Professor of Mathematics, Utah State University• Dr. Janice A. Dole, Professor of Literacy, University of Utah• Dr. D. Ray Reutzel, Distinguished Professor of Early Literacy Education, Utah State

University• Dr. Gary Dohrer, Professor of English, Weber State University• Liz Herrick, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Westminster College• Christine Walker, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Utah Valley University• Keith White, Associate Professor, Developmental Mathematics, Utah Valley University• Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics• Utah Board of Regents

ACT, Inc., Alignment of Common Core and ACT’s College & Career Readiness System (June 2010)

College Board, Research Report 2010-5A, Common Core State Standards Alignment: ReadiStep, PSAT/NMSQT, and SAT (November 2010)

• National experts don’t support the standards.

• Only 4 of 28 experts on the validation team disagreed.• This is just the unsuccessful “Investigations Math” approach.

• Standards don’t define how to teach or what to use to teach.• This will kill the reading of classic literature.

• Choices of materials are local

• Informational text is part of all other classwork (e.g. – social studies,

science, math, etc.).• Utah won’t be able to change these standards – or only 15%.

• Utah can change any or all of the standards.

• The State Board rushed to adopt the standards with no public notice or input.

• All Board actions were in public meetings where public input is taken.

• Utah public input was received during three 30-day comment periods

throughout the process.

• Public input is still accepted, analyzed, and used (e.g. – handwriting).• Utah’s new Core Standards are an example of federal overreach.

• NCLB is federal overreach. Common Core adoption allows a waiver.• The Common Core is a new federal, high stakes assessment system.

• The assessment system is entirely within Utah’s control.• Common Core standards obligate the collection of personal student.

• No new data will be collected as a result of the Common Core adoption.

Old Utah Core Standards◦ C in English ◦ A- in Math

Common Core received ◦ B+ in English ◦ A- in Math

“The Common Core provides admirable focus and explicitly requires standard methods and procedures, enhancements

that would benefit Utah’s standards.”

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that the Common Core State Standards were comparable or superior to the existing standards in 48 states, including Utah.

(Carmichael, “The State of State Standards—and the Common Core—in 2010,” Fordham Institute [July

2010]).

According to a recent “white paper” released by the National Center on Education Statistics, the Obama Administration

wants to use the 13-question survey that eighth-grade students customarily fill out during NAEP tests to ask more

probing questions in order to determine a student’s socioeconomic status.

NAEP is part of the Institute of Education Sciences, of the federal Department of Education.

Its board is appointed by the US Secretary of Education.

States are required to participate in NAEP federal assessments as part of NCLB and as a condition to receiving Title I monies. In the past, many states realigned their state education standards to the

federal NAEP standards, such as in the case of Massachusetts in 2001.

On May 2, 2013, the Utah State Board of Education enacted Resolution 2013-03, which provides the Board’s position against the release of identifiable student data.

The Common Core Initiative does not require the release of any student data information.

Utah is not associated with any of the testing consortiums which may require student data information. Current federal law (FERPA), prohibits the release of identifiable student data. However, it does allow for the release of aggregated, non-identifiable data.

There is some confusion over Utah statutes, which appear to be contradictory as to the release of identifiable student data. The State Board has encouraged the Utah Legislature to appropriate changes to ensure the privacy of public school students.

Jefferson Moss◦Legislative Liaison,

USBE◦Investment Specialist,

Key Private Bank◦MBA, BYU

Heather Groom◦Chair, Charter School

Committee, USBE◦Executive VP of Sales,

MojaWorks◦BA, Spanish, BYU

• Need for more communication – especially on sensitive

issues like Common Core

www.utahpublicschools.org

• Board resolutions in 2013•Creation of the School Trust Investment Task Force (2013-01)•Utah Core Standards (2013-02)•Data Sharing and Privacy Protections (2013-03)•Role of Proper Assessments (2013-04)

• Legislative communications – more engagement

• Role of the State Board for the Utah Legislature• Partnering with the legislature

• Resource – utilize diverse board member expertise

• Education policy initiatives• Board priorities for legislation

• Administrative rule can be more responsive to needs

Documents

Utah State Board of Education July 16, 2013. Debra Roberts ◦ Chair, Utah State Board of Education ◦ Chair, Audit Committee, USBE ◦ BA, English, BYU