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4HE TEAMS CRITIQUED THEIR OWN AND OTHER TEAMS SCENARIOS FOR PLAUSIBILITY AND RELEVANCE AND PROVIDED
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II 4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
0REFACE
0REPARED FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
4HE LEGACY OF RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP
7 HAT ARE THE GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMIC TECHNOLOGICAL POLITICAL AND GENERATIONAL TRENDS THAT WILL
SHAPE THE WORLD IN WHICH WE WILL LIVE AND WORK IN THE YEAR 7HAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT ALL OR SOME
COMBINATION OF THESE TRENDS WILL CONVERGE IN WAYS THAT CREATE A FUTURE FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM OUR PAST
EXPERIENCES AND CURRENT REALITIES 7HAT MIGHT BE THE EFFECT OF THESE TRENDS ON !MERICAS EDUCATION SYSTEM 7HAT
ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONS LIKE -C2%, THAT PROVIDE SERVICES ANDOR SELL PRODUCTS TO THE EDUCATION
MARKET (OW SHOULD LEADERS ANTICIPATE AND PREPARE THEIR ORGANIZATIONS FOR A FUTURE SHAPED BY THE POTENTIAL CON
VERGENCE OF THESE TRENDS 4HESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT MOTIVATED -C2%,S LEADERSHIP TEAM TO INITIATE
THE PROCESS THAT PRODUCED THE MATERIALS OFFERED HERE
-C2%, IS A NON PROlT ORGANIZATION WITH A MISSION TO hMAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION AND
LEARNING FOR ALL THROUGH APPLIED RESEARCH PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICEv /UR CONTRACTS WITH THE 53 $E
PARTMENT OF %DUCATION AND OTHERS OVER THE LAST YEARS ALLOW US TO CARRY OUT PROGRAMS OF APPLIED RESEARCH AND
TO DEVELOP PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR +n EDUCATORS BASED ON THAT RESEARCH 4HE FUTURE OF OUR ORGANIZATION RELIES
HEAVILY ON THE LEVEL OF AVAILABLE FUNDING FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS THE CONDITION OF
!MERICAS EDUCATION SYSTEM ! SIGNIlCANT CHANGE IN EITHER WILL REQUIRE OUR ORGANIZATION TO REPOSITION ITSELF IN THE
EDUCATION MARKET
)N WE BEGAN WONDERING ABOUT THE QUESTIONS ABOVE AND HOW WE SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE YEAR AND
BEYOND 7HY YOU MIGHT ASK DID WE FOCUS ON THE YEAR #ONSIDER THE FOLLOWING
s WILL BE THE lNAL YEAR OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT ASSUMING IT IS REAUTHORIZED IN AND WE
WILL KNOW HOW MANY SCHOOLS IN !MERICA MADE OR FAILED TO MAKE hADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESSv
s )N BABY BOOMERS THOSE MILLION !MERICANS BORN BETWEEN AND WILL BE RETIRING IN SIG
NIlCANT NUMBERS AND THEIR RETIREMENTS COULD LEAD TO DISTURBING SHORTAGES IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALIlED TEACHERS
AND ADMINISTRATORS
s IS THE YEAR IN WHICH MANY ECONOMISTS FORECAST THE 3OCIAL 3ECURITY TRUST FUND WILL BEGIN TO DISBURSE
MORE FUNDS THAN IT RECEIVES IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THE HIGH NUMBER OF RETIRING BABY BOOMERS
s !S THE BABY BOOMERS RETIRE MEMBERS OF A NEW GENERATION 'ENERATION 8 WITH A DIFFERENT SET OF CHARACTERIS
TICS AND PRIORITIES WILL TAKE POSITIONS OF POWER AND AUTHORITY
s CLOSELY COINCIDES WITH THE PERIOD DURING WHICH SOME ECONOMISTS PREDICT THE MOST DRAMATIC ECONOMIC
DOWNTURN SINCE THE 'REAT $EPRESSION OF THE EARLY S
s )NFORMATION AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ARE INCREASINGLY MOVING THE CONTROL OF LEARNING AWAY FROM INSTITUTIONS
AND TOWARD INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS "Y THESE TECHNOLOGIES WILL EXPAND THE OPTIONS AND CHOICES INDIVIDU
ALS AND FAMILIES HAVE IN ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR LIVES INCLUDING EDUCATION
s !ROUND MEMBERS OF OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM COMPRISED ALMOST ENTIRELY OF BABY BOOMERS WILL BE OF
TRADITIONAL RETIREMENT AGE CREATING AN OBVIOUS NEED FOR SUCCESSION PLANNING
III
!NY ONE OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS POTENTIALLY COULD MAKE AN IMPACT ON OUR CLIENTS OUR FUNDERS AND OUR WORK
4HE COMBINATION OF ANY OF THEM COULD CREATE FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND THE MARKET
PLACE AND THAT WOULD IMPLY SIGNIlCANT CHANGES FOR -C2%,
)N WE KNEW LITTLE ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF AN AGING !MERICAN WORKFORCE AND THE ASSOCIATED STRESSES IT
COULD PLACE ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 4HE SAME WAS TRUE OF OUR
UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF RAPID ADVANCEMENTS IN INFORMATION AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND OF THE INHERENT
CHALLENGES TO THE GOAL OF LEAVING NO CHILD BEHIND IN OUR INCREASINGLY COMPETITIVE GLOBAL ECONOMY 9ET ONE THING
WAS CLEAR TO ALL OF US
THINGS WERE CHANGING AND THE TEN YEARS FROM TO JUST MIGHT BE UNLIKE ANY EXPERI
ENCED IN RECENT HISTORY
3O WE BEGAN COLLECTING DATA ON WORKFORCE AND STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS FORECASTED COSTS OF ENTITLEMENT PRO
GRAMS AND HEALTH CARE FOR SENIORS EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR LIKELY IMPACT ON SCHOOLING AND LEARNING GEN
ERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS ECONOMICS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT GLOBALIZATION ENERGY
CONSUMPTION AND SCHOOL CHOICE 4HE MORE DATA WE COLLECTED ANALYZED AND SYNTHESIZED THE MORE APPARENT IT
BECAME THAT WE MUST PREPARE NOW FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE !S A LEADERSHIP TEAM WE CONCLUDED THAT PREPARING OUR
ORGANIZATION FOR WHATEVER UNCERTAINTIES LIE AHEAD WOULD BE OUR LEGACY
4HUS WE EMBARKED ON A DELIBERATE JOURNEY TO THE FUTURE RESULTING IN THE SCENARIOS WE OFFER HERE /UR AP
PROACH BEGAN BY IDENTIFYING TRENDS OF CONCERN TO US AND EXPERTS WHO COULD BRING US NEW KNOWLEDGE AND PROVOKE
THOUGHTFUL AND CRITICAL INQUIRY ABOUT CERTAINTIES AND UNCERTAINTIES BETWEEN AND /UR SENIOR MANAGE
MENT AND PROGRAM STAFF NEARLY ONE
THIRD OF OUR ORGANIZATION ENGAGED IN A RIGOROUS PROCESS OF LEARNING DELIB
ERATING AND ARCHIVING KEY INSIGHTS ABOUT TRENDS AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS WORK AND
THE WORKPLACE HOME AND LIFESTYLES AND SCHOOLING AND LEARNING /UR BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMPRISED OF STATE AND
NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY AND BUSINESS LEADERS INFORMED OUR DELIBERATIONS AND CRITIQUED THE STAFFS WORK TO BE
CERTAIN IT WAS PLAUSIBLE AND USEFUL 7E DEVELOPED INTERNAL EXPERTISE IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING AND USING SCENARIOS
OFFERED BY THE 'LOBAL "USINESS .ETWORK AND ULTIMATELY ENVISIONED NOT ONE BUT A TOTAL OF POSSIBLE FUTURES
EACH OF WHICH WILL PROVIDE US GUIDANCE AS WE CHART OUR ORGANIZATIONAL COURSE IN THE YEARS AHEAD /UR OBJECTIVE
WAS TO CREATE A RESOURCE FOR -C2%, AS WELL AS FOR THE LEADERS OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WHO SEE SCENARIOS AS A TOOL TO
AID THEIR OWN PREPARATIONS FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
4HOUGH WE HAVE NOT ANSWERED ALL OF THE QUESTIONS THAT MOTIVATED THIS WORK WE HAVE DEVELOPED A RESOURCE
THAT WE BELIEVE WILL SERVE US WELL IN WHATEVER FUTURE WE EXPERIENCE 4HROUGH THESE SCENARIOS WE ARE CONlDENT
WE CAN ANTICIPATE THE WORLD IN WHICH WE MIGHT LIVE AND WORK IN MONITOR WHAT UNFOLDS IN hREAL TIME v AND
DEVELOP TIMELY APPROPRIATE STRATEGIES TO POSITION OUR ORGANIZATION TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE AS WE REALIZE OUR MISSION
OF MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING FOR ALL
/UR LEADERSHIP TEAM APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF THE -C2%, "OARD OF $IRECTORS AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THIS
EFFORT 7E ARE GRATEFUL AS WELL FOR THE HARD INTELLECTUAL WORK OF THE -C2%, STAFF MEMBERS WHO BRILLIANTLY CON
TRIBUTED TO THIS PRODUCT &INALLY WE ARE PLEASED TO SHARE THESE MATERIALS WITH OUR CLIENTS PARTNERS FUNDERS AND
COMPETITORS 7E ALL HAVE MUCH AT STAKE AS WE ANTICIPATE THE WORLD OF AND BEYOND )T IS IN ALL OF OUR INTERESTS
TO THOUGHTFULLY PREPARE FOR THAT WORLD AND THAT TIME )F THESE MATERIALS CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR PREPARATION THEN THE
WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE NOW AND THE ONE IN WHICH WE WILL LIVE AND WORK IN WILL BE BETTER SERVED
* 4IMOTHY 7ATERS %D$
#%/ AND %XECUTIVE $IRECTOR
-C2%,
IV 4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
)NTRODUCTION
h4HE NARRATIVES OF THE WORLD ARE WITHOUT NUMBER THE NARRATIVE IS PRESENT AT ALL TIMES IN ALL PLACES IN ALL
SOCIETIES THE HISTORY OF NARRATIVE BEGINS WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND THERE DOES NOT EXIST AND NEVER HAS
EXISTED A PEOPLE WITHOUT NARRATIVESv
^"ARTHES
4 HROUGHOUT HISTORY STORIES HAVE RECORDED THE PAST AND SHAPED THE FUTURE 4HIS PUBLICATION OFFERS THREE SUCH
STORIES )T IS THE STORY OF ONE ORGANIZATIONS JOURNEY IN PREPARATION FOR A CHANGING WORLD 4HAT JOURNEY RESULTED
IN ANOTHER SET OF STORIES ABOUT THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION IN OFFERED HERE &INALLY IT MAY BE THE lRST CHAPTER IN
THE STORY OF OUR OWN FUTURES AS STAKEHOLDERS IN THE !MERICAN EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISE A STORY THAT WILL BE SHARED
AS HISTORY WITH FUTURE GENERATIONS
,IKE MOST STORIES THERE IS NO SINGLE hTRUTHv WITHIN 2ATHER READERS WILL DRAW INDIVIDUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE
STORIES MEANINGS AND WILL RESPOND IN KIND )N SHARING THESE STORIES WE HOPE TO CHALLENGE INSPIRE AND MOTIVATE
THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY TO PREPARE FOR A CHANGING WORLD )NDEED WE BELIEVE THAT IF WE DONT ACT NOW IN RESPONSE TO
THE ANTICIPATED CHANGES AHEAD THE LEGACY WE LEAVE FOR FUTURE LEARNERS WILL BE INSUFlCIENT TO MEET THE CHALLENGES
AHEAD
4O SAY THE OBVIOUS THE FUTURE WILL COME 4HE ONLY QUESTION IS WILL WE BE PREPARED TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN
THE FUTURE OR WILL WE BECOME OBSOLETE AND IRRELEVANT IN THE NEW WORLD 7E CHOOSE TO BE PREPARED AND HOPE YOU
WILL JOIN US
/UR 3TORY
!T -C2%, WE APPROACH ALL OF OUR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS FROM THREE BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
7E MUST GET THE MOST POSSIBLE OUT OF OUR CURRENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FOR THE BENElT OF EVERY STUDENT
(OWEVER 53 SCHOOLS AS CURRENTLY DESIGNED ARE NOT LIKELY TO MEET THE EXPECTATION THAT NO CHILD IS LEFT
BEHIND
4HEREFORE WE NEED TO PREPARE FOR THE INEVITABLE CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM OF SCHOOLING TO COME
! FRANK EVALUATION OF OUR CURRENT SYSTEM OF SCHOOLING READILY REVEALS ITS WEAKNESSES WHEN FACED WITH THE GOAL
OF BRINGING ALL STUDENTS TO PROlCIENCY ON CHALLENGING STANDARDS !S STATES STRUGGLE WITH IMPLEMENTING THE .O
#HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VERY NATURE OF SCHOOLING HAVE EMERGED )S THE LENGTH OF THE SCHOOL
DAY ADEQUATE FOR ALL CHILDREN 3HOULD PUBLIC SCHOOLING BEGIN AT AGE THREE OR YOUNGER FOR SOME OR ALL CHILDREN !RE
THE SYSTEMS FOR PREPARING AND DEVELOPING OUR TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS SUFlCIENT TO PROVIDE THE NUMBERS OF HIGH
QUALITY SCHOOL PROFESSIONALS WE WILL NEED #AN STATE AND LOCAL BUDGETS AFFORD THE KINDS OF INCREASES THAT MIGHT BE
NEEDED IF THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS TO SUCCEED !ND WHAT IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL SET OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS STUDENTS
NEED TO ACHIEVE IN ORDER TO THRIVE IN THE FUTURE
7E MAY NOT BE ABLE TO KNOW WITH CERTAINTY THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS BUT BY ASKING h7HAT IF v IN A
DISCIPLINED WAY WE CAN IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES OF TOMORROW AND THEN TAKE ACTION TODAY THAT WILL POSITION US FOR
SUCCESS IN THE FUTURE !CCORDINGLY -C2%, IS PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE USING A PROCESS CALLED hSCENARIO PLANNINGv
7HY 3CENARIOS
h3TORIES ARE THE WAY TO CAPTURE THE HOPES DREAMS AND VISIONS OF A CULTURE 4HEY ARE TRUE AS
MUCH AS DATA ARE TRUE 4HE TRUTH OF THE POWERFUL AND IRRESISTIBLE STORY ILLUSTRATES IN A WAY DATA
CANT BEGIN TO CAPTURE )TS THE STORIES THAT MAKE YOU UNDERSTANDv
^#ARL 3ESSIONS 3TEPP PROFESSOR 0HILIP -ERRILL #OLLEGE OF *OURNALISM
3CENARIOS ARE STORIES ABOUT THE FUTURE THAT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT KEY DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND HOW THOSE
DRIVERS MAY INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER TO CREATE ALTERNATIVE FUTURES 4HESE ALTERNATIVE FUTURES OR SCENAR
IOS ARE NOT PREDICTIONS OF THE FUTURE BUT RATHER PLAUSIBLE FUTURE REALITIES THAT CAN GUIDE STRATEGIC ORGA
NIZATIONAL DECISION
MAKING IN THE PRESENT 4HUS SCENARIO PLANNING IS A STRATEGIC PLANNING TOOL BASED ON
THE PREMISE THAT ALTHOUGH THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS MUST ACT 3CENARIOS CAN HELP ORGANIZA
TIONS TAKE ACTIONS NOW THAT WILL MAXIMIZE THEIR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE FUTURE
&OR MANY YEARS NOW BUSINESS LEADERS ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE BENElTED FROM ENGAGING IN THE PROCESS
OF WRITING SCENARIOS 4HEY USE THESE TO DEVELOP RESPONSES TO POTENTIAL FUTURE CONDITIONS IN ORDER TO
GAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE IN AN UNCERTAIN MARKET %DUCATIONAL LEADERS WE BELIEVE CAN BENElT FROM
THIS PROCESS AS WELL AS THEY SEEK TO ENSURE THEIR ORGANIZATIONS RELEVANCE AND SUSTAINED CONTRIBUTION TO
HELPING ALL STUDENTS SUCCEED IN A CHANGING WORLD
7RITING SCENARIOS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION REQUIRES hREPERCEIVINGv THE FUTURE AND IMAGINING ALL
ASPECTS OF THE WAY THE WORLD MIGHT BE NOT JUST THOSE FACTORS THAT RELATE SPECIlCALLY TO EDUCATION )NDEED
THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT THE ECONOMY SECURITY ISSUES TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AND SOCIAL VALUES
WILL ALL IMPACT AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE UNFOLDING OF THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION )T IS FOR THIS REASON THAT WE
HAVE STUDIED AND CATALOGUED FUTURE TRENDS IN ALL OF THESE AREAS AS POTENTIAL h$RIVERS OF #HANGEv
%XPLORATION OF THE &UTURE
h0LAUSIBLE IMPOSSIBILITIES SHOULD BE PREFERRED TO CONVINCING POSSIBILITIESv
^!RISTOTLE
!T -C2%, WE BEGAN OUR JOURNEY TO THE FUTURE BY INVITING SIX NATIONALLY KNOWN EXPERTS IN A WIDE
ARRAY OF DISCIPLINES TO SHARE WITH US THEIR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE KEY DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND THEIR ANTICI
PATED IMPACTS ON MAJOR SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 4HE DATA GATHERED FROM THESE EXPERTS WAS DOCUMENTED AND
IS CONTINUALLY INCORPORATED INTO OUR DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT THE WORLD MIGHT BE LIKE OR YEARS
FROM NOW
'LEN (IEMSTRA FOUNDER OF &UTURIST#OM LAUNCHED OUR EXPLORATION INTO THE FUTURE WITH INFORMATION
ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR RADICAL ANTI AGING TECHNIQUES GENETIC THERAPIES NANO TECHNOLOGY AND CHANGES
IN THE NATURE OF WORK AND RETIREMENT #HRIS $EDE CHAIR ,EARNING AND 4EACHING AT THE (ARVARD 'RADU
ATE 3CHOOL OF %DUCATION EXPOSED US TO CONCEPTS OF hUBIQUITOUS LEARNINGv MADE POSSIBLE BY A VARIETY OF
BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES .OTED EDUCATIONAL DEMOGRAPHER (AROLD "UD (ODGKINSON TAUGHT US ABOUT
THE IMPACT OF MAJOR DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES AGING RACIAL DIVERSITY IMMIGRATION ON OUR FUTURE LIFESTYLES
WORKPLACES SCHOOLS AND OTHER PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
&ROM .EIL (OWE HISTORIAN ECONOMIST AND DEMOGRAPHER WE ALSO LEARNED ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS
AND HISTORICAL IMPACT OF DIFFERENT GENERATIONS AND AS WELL AS THE DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP STYLES WE MIGHT
EXPECT AS BABY BOOMERS RETIRE *ACK *ENNINGS PRESIDENT AND #%/ OF THE #ENTER ON %DUCATION 0OLICY IN
7ASHINGTON $# AND A FORMER SUBCOMMITTEE STAFF DIRECTOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL FOR THE 53 (OUSE OF
2EPRESENTATIVES #OMMITTEE ON %DUCATION AND ,ABOR PROVIDED A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
POLICY AND THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT IN PARTICULAR &INALLY WE LEARNED ABOUT THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS
OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR AND THE h'REAT 7INTERv FORECASTED BY THE (ARRY 3 $ENT &OUNDATION FROM ITS
PRESIDENT 2ODNEY *OHNSON
4HESE SPEAKERS PROVIDED THE INSPIRATION FOR US TO BEGIN A DISCIPLINED APPROACH TO DISCOVERING TRENDS
OF THE FUTURE IN MANY DIFFERENT AREAS 7E ARCHIVE THESE TRENDS IN A MATRIX SHOWING THE INTERACTION
BETWEEN VARIOUS DRIVERS AND THE FOLLOWING KEY INSTITUTIONS OF OUR LIVES HOMES AND LIFESTYLES JOBS AND
WORKPLACE GOVERNMENT AND POLICY AND EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS 7E IDENTIFY ARTICLES IN THE DAILY PRESS
AND IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS AND CATEGORIZE THEM BASED ON WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT HOW DIFFERENT DRIVERS
SUCH AS TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS DEMOGRAPHICS AND GLOBALIZATION ARE LIKELY TO IMPACT ANY OR ALL OF THESE
INSTITUTIONS !S WE BUILD THE ARCHIVE WE ARE CONSTANTLY REMINDED OF THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH FORCES THAT
ARE BEYOND OUR CONTROL MAY HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION !T THE SAME TIME WE DRAW INFER
ENCES FROM THIS INFORMATION AND INCORPORATE THOSE INSIGHTS INTO OUR ONGOING STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS
!SKING h7HAT IF v
h7E TELL STORIES IN ORDER TO FEEL AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSEv
^2OGER "INGHAM HISTORIAN
3CENARIOS ANSWER THE QUESTIONS 7HAT IF THE MANY DRIVING FORCES OF CHANGE CONVERGE TO CAUSE EVENTS
WE DID NOT EXPECT 7HAT IF THE FUTURE IS NOT AS WE IMAGINE BUT IS INSTEAD DIFFERENT REQUIRING DIFFER
ENT RESPONSES FROM US (OW DOES THIS FUTURE WORLD LOOK 7HO HAS POWER 7HAT POLICIES ARE IN PLACE TO
SUPPORT SCHOOLS 7HAT CAN WE DO TO PREPARE TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN THIS WORLD (OW CAN WE MANAGE
THE MULTITUDE OF UNCERTAINTIES AHEAD
3CENARIOS ARE RICH WITH IDEAS ABOUT HOW THE MANY UNCERTAINTIES WE CAN IDENTIFY TODAY MAY UNFOLD TO
MORROW AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO CAST OUR EXPLORATION NET AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE SO AS NOT TO MISS DRIVERS THAT
MAY NOT SEEM OBVIOUS BUT WHICH UPON CLOSER CONSIDERATION ARE LIKELY TO HAVE AN IMPORTANT IMPACT
!T THE SAME TIME ALTHOUGH UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE FUTURE ABOUNDS THERE ARE SOME FORCES EVENTS OR
CONDITIONS THAT WE CAN hPREDICTv WITH A FAIR DEGREE OF CERTAINTY WILL EXIST 7E DElNE THOSE CONDITIONS
AS hPREDETERMINEDv AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF WRITING SCENARIOS ASSUME THAT THEY ARE HIGHLY LIKELY TO OCCUR
4HESE PREDETERMINED ELEMENTS HELP TO GROUND THE SCENARIOS IN REALITY AND INCREASE THEIR PLAUSIBILITY &OR
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!BUNDANT
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FUTURE WORLDS IT MUST ASK ITSELF WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR
US &OR EXAMPLE WHAT WOULD A WORLD IN WHICH PARENTS
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HAVE ACCESS TO VOUCHERS AND A PLETHORA OF HIGH
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EDUCATIONAL CHOICES MEAN FOR A LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
GOVERNMENT HAS VERY LITTLE OR NO CONTROL OVER THE
(OW FOR EXAMPLE SHOULD A LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION
RESPOND SOME WOULD SAY COMPETE IN SUCH A WORLD
ARE ABUNDANT 4HE SCENARIO WRITERS MUST CONSIDER
7HAT VALUE CAN IT PROVIDE
HOW SUCH A WORLD COULD HAVE DEVELOPED 7HAT
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BE THAT ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY LED TO THE CREATION OF
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IN RESULT IN A WHOLE
MORE CHOICES IN EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS ! SCHOOL DISTRICT
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OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT !RE TECHNOLOGY
OF ALL STUDENTS MADE MORE CRITICAL AS THE OUTCOME
AND ITS APPLICATIONS STRENGTHS OR ARE THEY UNTAPPED
OF SCHOOL lNANCE ADEQUACY LAWSUITS INCREASED THE
RESOURCES WAITING TO BE DEVELOPED 4HE IMPLICATIONS
SCHOOL FUNDING BILL FOR STATES DISSUADE THE GOVERN
OF THE SCENARIO RELATING TO THE STATE OF TECHNOLOGY MAY
MENT FROM MAINTAINING ITS INVOLVEMENT /R DID
PROVIDE SOME CLUES AS TO HOW THE FUTURE DEVELOPED
THE PRIVATE SECTOR SIMPLY PROVIDE MORE EFFECTIVE OR
THIS WAY AND WHAT OPPORTUNITIES CURRENTLY EXIST FOR THE
DESIRABLE ALTERNATIVES TO THE PUBLIC SYSTEM CAUSING A
DISTRICT TO IMPROVE THE DELIVERY OF EDUCATION TO LOCAL
MASSIVE EXODUS OF STUDENTS FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
STUDENTS 4HE LATTER BECOME hOPTIONSv FOR ACTIONS THAT
3IMILARLY THIS IS A WORLD IN WHICH RESOURCES FOR EDU
MAY BE TAKEN TODAY BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN ANTICIPA
CATION ARE ABUNDANT (OW DID THAT HAPPEN 7HAT IS
TION OF THIS SORT OF WORLD UNFOLDING
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A LOSS OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL
AND AN INCREASE IN FUNDING !ND WHERE DID THE MONEY
COME FROM 4HE SCENARIO MUST ANSWER THESE AND MANY
OTHER QUESTIONS IN ORDER TO PAINT A FULL PICTURE OF THE
WORLD A DECADE FROM NOW
5LTIMATELY AS YOU WILL SEE EACH OF OUR SCENARIO
TEAMS SETTLED ON THE FRAMEWORK WITH THE GREATEST REL
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WITH RICH AND CHALLENGING STORIES OF THE FUTURE
4HE 3CENARIOS 4HE 3TORIES 7ITHIN THE 3TORY
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!RIE DE 'UES 4HE ,IVING #OMPANY
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STORIES OF THE FUTURE 9OU WILL NOTE SIMILARITIES AND
DIFFERENCES AMONG THEM THAT REmECT THE CONTEXT OF THE
!T THE BEGINNING OF EACH INDIVIDUAL SCENARIO THERE
IS A SUMMARY OF THE hDEEP CAUSESv THAT COULD LEAD TO
THIS PARTICULAR SCENARIO 4HESE CAUSES ARE INTENDED TO
EDUCATIONAL ENTITY THEY WERE WRITTEN FOR THE CHARAC
STRENGTHEN THE PLAUSIBILITY OF THE SCENARIO AND PROVIDE
TERISTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF EACH TEAM OF CLUES TO THE READER ABOUT HOW CERTAIN EVENTS IN THE
WRITERS AND THE SPIRITED DEBATES THEY REQUIRED TO REACH STORY MAY HAVE COME ABOUT 4HE ACTUAL SCENARIO OR
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SHOW HOW THEY CAN BE USED IN STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR
%ACH SET USES A DIFFERENT hVEHICLEv FOR TELLING
THE ORGANIZATION 4HERE ARE THREE PARTS TO THE !NALYSIS
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SECTION )MPLICATIONS OF THE SCENARIO FOR THE ORGANIZA
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TION )NDICATORS THAT THE FUTURE IS MOVING IN THE DIREC
VOICE OF A SINGLE IMAGINARY CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFlCER
TION IMAGINED BY THE SCENARIO AND /PTIONS FOR ACTIONS
WHO HAS ATTEMPTED TO LEAD HER AGENCY THROUGH THE
THE ORGANIZATION MIGHT TAKE TODAY TO PREPARE FOR THE
VARIOUS HIGHS AND LOWS IMAGINED WITHIN THE SCENARIO
WORLD AHEAD 4HESE ANALYSES ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE
FRAMEWORK -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS STORY IS TOLD
PRESCRIPTIVE OR EXHAUSTIVE 2ATHER THEY DEMONSTRATE
THROUGH THE EYES OF AN EDUCATION REPORTER WHO ATTENDS
THE KIND OF LEARNING THAT CAN BE EXTRACTED FROM THE
BOARD MEETINGS AND WRITES ABOUT THE POSITIONS AND
SCENARIOS TO ASSIST AN ORGANIZATION IN PLANNING FOR THE
ACTIONS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AS WELL AS THE RESPONSES TO
FUTURE
THOSE FROM THE BROADER COMMUNITY 0ARENTS FOR %DUCA
&INALLY AT THE END OF EACH OF THE FOUR SETS OF SCE
TION TELLS ITS STORIES THROUGH A NEWSLETTER TO MEMBERS
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WRITTEN BY THE ASSOCIATIONS PRESIDENT &INALLY OUR
HELP YOU lND CONNECTIONS IN THE SCENARIOS TO YOUR OWN
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION ENVISIONS PO
ORGANIZATION AND WORK 3CENARIOS ARE ALWAYS BEST WHEN
TENTIAL CHANGES IN THE EDUCATION MARKETPLACE THROUGH
WRITTEN WITH DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF THE ACTUAL CONTEXT OF
hKEYNOTEv SPEECHES DELIVERED BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE ORGANIZATION AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PARTICU
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LAR ISSUE THE ORGANIZATION IS FACING /UR SCENARIOS ARE
WORLD
WRITTEN FOR HYPOTHETICAL ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE UN
!LTHOUGH THE STORIES VARY WE HAVE FOLLOWED A
DOUBTEDLY FAR LESS COMPLEX THAN YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION
COMMON FORMAT TO MAKE THEM EASIER TO READ AND
!ND YET WE BELIEVE AND HOPE THAT YOU WILL lND THAT
COMPARE WITH ONE ANOTHER %ACH SET BEGINS WITH SOME
THE CURRENT AND FUTURE WORLDS FACED BY THESE IMAGINARY
BACKGROUND INFORMATION TO ORIENT THE READER TO THE
EDUCATIONAL LEADERS ARE NOT FAR OFF THE MARK FROM WHAT
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE PURPOSE OF
YOU CAN EXPECT TO FACE IN YOUR OWN WORK IN THE YEARS
THE SCENARIOS FOR THE ORGANIZATION 4HIS IS FOLLOWED BY
AHEAD
A DIAGRAM AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTICULAR CRITICAL UN
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4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
! .OTE !BOUT 'ENERATIONS
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VARIOUS CHARACTERISTICS AND MOTIVATIONS OF PEOPLE BORN ON (OWES GENERATIONAL FRAMEWORK "ELOW FOR YOUR
DURING DIFFERENT PERIODS OF HISTORY COMPELLING IN FACT REFERENCE IS A THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF EACH OF THE LIVING
(OWES THEORIES PROVIDED COGENT EXPLANATIONS FOR GENERATIONS REFERRED TO IN OUR STORIES
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THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCHOOLING WILL BE PROVIDED BY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OR PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS
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HOLLERING AND SHOUTING RAISING A STINK IF A TEACHER SO
3CHOOL 0ROVIDERS
MUCH AS LOOKED AT THEIR KID WRONG -OST PARENTS MY 3CHOOL #HOICES
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AGE ARENT LIKE THAT )T SEEMS LIKE MOST OF US l GURE ITS
BEST TO STAY OUT OF THE SCHOOLS WAY AND LET THEM DO
THEIR JOBS ) MEAN WHO AM ) TO TELL THEM HOW TO TEACH
MY CHILD 4HATS WHAT THEY WENT TO SCHOOL FOR ISNT
IT ) WOULDNT WANT THEM COMING INTO MY OFl CE AND
.ON
'OVERNMENT
TELLING ME HOW TO DO MY JOB WOULD ) v
-Y SON IS RIGHT 4ODAYS SCHOOLS ARE RUN BY WELL
EDU
CATED EXPERTS WHO KNOW WHAT THEYRE DOING .OW )
KNOW THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT OUR SCHOOLS 3CHOOLS ON THE RISE
ARE TOO MUCH ALIKE AND DONT CREATE A hUNIQUEv EXPERI
)N NEAR THE MIDWAY POINT OF THE .O #HILD
ENCE FOR EVERY KID !ND ) KNOW THERE ARE SOME LOCAL
,EFT "EHIND LEGISLATION THE NATION TOOK STOCK OF THE
CONTROL ZEALOTS ) TEND TO THINK OF THEM AS SOLDIERS
LAW AND FOUND MOST OF THE EARLIER KINKS IN IT HAD BEEN
ON AN ISLAND WHO DONT KNOW THE WAR IS OVER WHO
WORKED OUT AND MORE IMPORTANTLY STUDENT TEST SCORES
SAY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PLAYS TOO STRONG A ROLE IN
WERE ON THE RISE ON A VARIETY OF INDICATORS !T THE STATE
EDUCATION DICTATING CURRICULUM TO SCHOOLS AND STATES
LEVEL SCORES WERE RISING STEADILY ON A NEW GENERATION OF
7ELL TO THOSE PEOPLE ) POINT OUT THAT FOR TWO CEN
COMPUTERIZED hSMARTv ASSESSMENTS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL
TURIES WE LET STATES AND DISTRICTS ASSUME THE LEAD ROLE
.!%0 SCORES WERE SHOWING STEADY GROWTH PARTLY
IN EDUCATION AND WHAT DID WE GET 5NSCIENTIl C AP
BECAUSE A GROWING NUMBER OF STATES HAVE ALIGNED THEIR
PROACHES TO LEARNING DROPOUTS ILLITERACY AND CHILDREN
OWN ASSESSMENTS WITH .!%0 AND AT THE INTERNA
UNPREPARED FOR LIFE SUCCESS -OREOVER BY STANDARDIZING
TIONAL LEVEL SCORES WERE UP AS WELL
DATA REPORTING AND TESTING WEVE MADE IT A LOT HARDER
)NDEED AFTER YEARS OF BAD PRESS ABOUT 53 STUDENTS
FOR STATES DISTRICTS
UNFAVORABLE COMPARISONS TO THEIR INTERNATIONAL PEERS
AND SCHOOLS TO GAME
WE l NALLY STARTED TO NOTICE THAT !MERICAN STUDENTS
THE SYSTEM !S A
MORE THAN THOSE IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY HAD BEEN QUIETLY
RESULT SCHOOLS NEARLY
CLIMBING THE CHARTS IN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
ACROSS THE BOARD WERE
4HE TEST SCORES SEEMED TO CONl RM THE IMPRESSION OF
FORCED TO PERFORM OR
MANY PARENTS AND TAXPAYERS THAT OUR SCHOOLS WERE NOT
PERISH !S YOU KNOW
ONLY GETTING BETTER BUT WERE TRULY BECOMING A SOURCE OF
NOW MOST HAVE RISEN
CIVIC AND INTERNATIONAL PRIDE
TO OUR HIGHER EXPECTA
TIONS AND PERFORMED
!LL IN THE FAMILY
WONDERFULLY
)N THE 53 #ENSUS "UREAU REPORTED THAT AS A
NATION WE HAD BEGUN TO REDISCOVER FAMILY OFTEN OUT OF
NECESSITY 4HE CENSUS FOUND THAT MORE OF US WERE LIVING
&OR EXAMPLE BETWEEN AND 53 TH GRADERS RESULTS ON THE 4)--3 SCIENCE TEST INCREASED SIGNIl CANTLY FROM AN AVERAGE SCORE OF
TO WHILE THE INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE FELL FROM IN TO IN 7HILE 53 SCORES ARE STILL WELL BELOW THE TOP SCORER 3INGA
PORE IT IS ONE OF THE FEW COUNTRIES WITH SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENT IN ITS 4)--3 SCORES
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
2ETURN TO THE hCOMMON
SCHOOLv
3TARTING IN BLOGGERS AND REPORTERS BEGAN
NOTICING A NEW SEA CHANGE IN !MERICAN LIFE 3EVERAL
YEARS EARLIER SOCIOLOGISTS HAD OBSERVED THAT PEOPLE WERE
hBOWLING ALONEv 4ODAY HOWEVER !MERICANS ARE MUCH
MORE CIVIC
MINDED AND OUR SCHOOLS ARE AT THE CENTER
OF OUR NEW SENSE OF
COMMUNITY !S !MERI
CANS WE HAVE REDISCOV
ERED A COMMON SENSE
OF PURPOSE AND LEARNED
IN THREE
GENERATION HOUSEHOLDS AS l NANCIALLY STRAPPED THAT WE ARE FAR MORE
YOUNG PARENTS EITHER MOVED IN WITH THEIR PARENTS OR ALIKE THAN DIFFERENT 7E
INVITED THEIR PARENTS MANY OF WHOM HAD EITHER HAVE BUILT OUR SCHOOLS
FAILED TO SAVE ADEQUATELY FOR RETIREMENT OR SEEN THEIR AROUND SHARED VALUES OF
PENSION AND 3OCIAL 3ECURITY BENEl TS CUT TO LIVE WITH DEMOCRACY HARD WORK
THEM TO HELP OUT WITH THE BILLS AND CHILDCARE -Y OWN AND EQUALITY )NDEED
FAMILY IS A GOOD EXAMPLE -Y DAUGHTER AND SON
IN
LAW SOME SAY THAT OUR SCHOOLS REPRESENT THE BEST VALUES OF
ARE LIVING WITH ME IN !RLINGTON WHILE HE l NISHES UP YESTERDAY THE SENSE OF INDIVIDUAL MORALITY AND PRO
LAW SCHOOL AT (OWARD )M ON THE ROAD A LOT SO ITS NICE PRIETY OF THE S WITH THE SENSE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND
TO HAVE SOMEONE AT HOME WATCHING THE HOUSE AND EQUALITY OF THE S
FEEDING MY DOG !ND THE BEST THING OF ALL IS THAT ) GET !T THE SAME TIME FOR MANY OF US THE OLD META
TO SEE A LOT OF MY NEW BABY GRANDDAUGHTER WHO GETS PHOR OF !MERICA AS A hTOSSED SALADv SEPARATE RACES
TO SPEND THE DAY WITH HER GRANDDAD WHO RETIRED A FEW AND CULTURES JUMBLED TOGETHER BUT NOT REALLY MIXING
YEARS AGO /UR NEST IS PRETTY FULL BUT ) WOULDNT HAVE IT DOESNT HOLD AS MUCH CURRENCY AS THE OLDER IDEA OF
ANY OTHER WAY A hMELTING POTv WHERE PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RACES AND
/VER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS !MERICA HAS BEEN A CULTURES COME TOGETHER
KINDER GENTLER PLACE FOR OUR CHILDREN 4HE DIVORCE RATE TO CREATE A NEW BLENDED
IS DOWN TEENAGE PREGNANCIES ARE NOW JUST ONE
TENTH OF CULTURE 9OU CAN SEE THAT
WHAT THEY WERE IN AND MORE OF OUR CHILDREN ARE FACE IN OUR FACES 4HE
LIVING WITH TWO PARENTS AND SOMETIMES MORE WHEN NUMBER OF MIXED
RACE
YOU COUNT THEIR GRANDPARENTS .OT SURPRISINGLY WITH FAMILIES EITHER FROM
MORE ADULTS AROUND TO OFFER THEM GUIDANCE OUR KIDS MIXED
RACE MARRIAGES OR
ARE DOING BETTER IN SCHOOL MULTI
CULTURAL ADOPTIONS
CONTINUES TO GROW MORE
RAPIDLY THAN ANY OTHER
ETHNIC OR CULTURAL CATEGO
RY -Y GRANDDAUGHTER IN
,AKE *ACKSON FOR EXAMPLE
!S OF IN ADOPTED CHILDREN WERE OF A DIFFERENT RACE THAN THEIR PARENTS AND IN MARRIAGES WERE MIXED
RACE MARRIAGES UP FROM
IN IN $ATA SHOW A SIGNIl CANT RISE IN MIXED
RACE FAMILIES DUE TO INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES AND MULTIRACIAL ADOPTIONSh!LL IN THE MIXED
RACE
&AMILY A 53 4RENDv 7ILTENBURG - 0AULSON ! !UGUST #HRISTIAN 3CIENCE -ONITOR
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UBLIC SCHOOLS 9OU SEE
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.ON
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HICH !MERICANS ARE
OT LOSING THEIR IDENTI
ES BUT RATHER CREATING
A NEW ONE ,EAVING NO CHILD BEHIND
!S YOU KNOW THIS SUMMER THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR
3ILVER HAIRED LINING SCHOOLS GOT GREAT NEWS -ORE THAN OF OUR NATIONS
4HE PAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN HARD ON EVERYONE SCHOOLS HAVE RISEN TO THE CHALLENGE SET BY LAWMAK
ECONOMICALLY BUT FOR OUR SCHOOLS THERE HAS BEEN A ERS YEARS AGO WHEN THEY PASSED THE .O #HILD ,EFT
SILVER LINING OR ACTUALLY IF YOULL EXCUSE THE PUN A "EHIND !CT OF 3URE THERE ARE POCKETS OF DISAP
SILVER
HAIRED LINING 3EMI
RETIREES ARE l NDING OUT OR POINTMENT PERCENT OF SCHOOLS NOT ACHIEVING THIS
PERHAPS RE
DISCOVERING THAT SCHOOLS ARE A GREAT PLACE GOAL IS STILL TOO MANY "UT LETS REm ECT FOR A MOMENT )N
TO WORK AND VOLUNTEER ) WAS RECENTLY VISITING ,OS PEOPLE SAID OUR SCHOOLS WOULD NEVER RISE TO MEET
!NGELES 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS WHERE ) LEARNED THAT SEMI
RETIR
THIS AUDACIOUS GOAL "UT ACROSS THE COUNTRY OUR SCHOOLS
EES NOW COMPRISE A QUARTER OF THAT DISTRICTS WORKFORCE AND THE HARDWORKING STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AND
/NE l RST
GRADER ) SPOKE WITH HER NAME WAS !NGEL SEMI
RETIREES IN THEM HAVE RISEN TO MEET THIS CHAL
WHICH COULDNT HAVE BEEN MORE l TTING TOLD ME SHE HAS LENGE 3URE THERE ARE STILL A FEW VOICES OUT THERE WHO
THREE hGRANDMASv WHO WATCH AFTER HER ONE IN THE SAY OUR SCHOOLS ARE TOO RIGID OR DONT ALLOW STUDENTS TO
MORNING ONE IN THE AFTERNOON AND ONE SHE LIVES WITH EXPRESS THEMSELVES LIKE THEY DID IN THE OLD DAYS 4O
WHO GREETS HER WHEN SHE COMES HOME AFTER SCHOOL ) THOSE PEOPLE WHO WOULD PREFER TO GO BACK TO THE PAST
THOUGHT THAT WAS A REAL SIGN OF THE TIMES WHEN STUDENTS WERE LEFT BEHIND IN UNSAFE UNPRODUC
TIVE SCHOOLS WHICH WERE IN TURN SERVED BY m Y
BY
NIGHT
4HE -ARS RACE IS ON COMPANIES AND PROVIDERS WHO WERE BETTER AT MARKETING
THE LATEST FAD THAN DEVELOPING PRODUCTS AND PROGRAMS
)N THE 0RESIDENT CHALLENGED THE COUNTRY IN
BASED ON SCIENTIl C RESEARCH ) SAY ITS A FREE COUNTRY
HER INAUGURAL ADDRESS TO ENSURE THAT !MERICANS ARE THE
YOU CAN TEACH YOUR CHILD AT HOME OR SEND THEM TO A
l RST TO -ARS IN SEVEN SHORT YEARS (ERES A COMPEL
PRIVATE SCHOOL "UT IF YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO GO TO A
LING THOUGHT ONE OF THE l RST !MERICANS TO SET FOOT
SAFE STRUCTURED RIGOROUS ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY CAN
ON -ARS IN MAY BE A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT TODAY
RECEIVE THE BEST EDUCATION IN THE WORLD SEND THEM TO
IN ONE OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS 4O GET THEM THERE SAFELY
ONE OF !MERICAS l NE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
AHEAD OF THE #HINESE AND %UROPEANS WE KNOW THAT OUR
SCHOOLS MUST BECOME THE BEST IN THE WORLD AT TEACHING
SCIENCE MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY 4HIS IS NO EASY
TASK BUT ) AND ) AM SURE YOU ALL HERE TONIGHT WILL AGREE
WITH ME AM CONl DENT THAT OUR NATIONS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ARE UP TO THE TASK
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
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SCHOOLS USE TO MAINTAIN LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT "ECAUSE SCENARIO
A STRONG FEDERAL PRESENCE IN SCHOOLS LED TO IMPROVED
MEASURES OF PRODUCTIVITY A HIGH VALUE IS PLACED ON s )MPROVING ACHIEVEMENT SCORES AT THE STATE NA
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RELATED MATERIALS )T IS ALSO POSSIBLE THE FEDERAL GOVERN
IDENTIlED FOR SANCTIONS
MENT WILL ESTABLISH LISTS OF hAPPROVED PROGRAMS ANDOR
PROVIDERSv WHO MEET THEIR STANDARDS )T WILL BE IN THE s )NCREASING PARENT SATISFACTION WITH SCHOOLS ON THE
STRATEGIC BUSINESS INTEREST OF ANY PROVIDER OF PROGRAMS 'ALLUP0$+ ANNUAL SURVEY
ANDOR SERVICES SELLING TO THE EDUCATION MARKET TO BE
s )NCREASING UTILITY OF AND RELIANCE UPON THE 7HAT
ON THESE LISTS 4HE STANDARDS WOULD LIKELY INCLUDE A
7ORKS #LEARINGHOUSE
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IMPACTEFlCACY CONSISTENCY ACROSS VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL s ,EVEL OR INCREASED FEDERAL FUNDING FOR EDUCATION
SETTINGS URBAN SUBURBAN RURAL LARGE SMALL ETC AF
FORDABILITY SCALABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY s )NCREASING STANDARDIZATION OF STATEWIDE ASSESS
4O SURVIVE IN THIS WORLD SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NEED MENT PROGRAMS EITHER THROUGH REGIONAL COMPACTS
STRONG ADVOCACY AT BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS )T WILL AMONG STATES OR THROUGH EFFORTS TO ALIGN STATE TESTS
NOT BE ENOUGH TO SIMPLY FOCUS ON AND TO MEET THESE TO THE .!%0 TEST OR TO ADOPT THE .!%0 FOR STATE
STANDARDS 0ROVIDERS MUST MAINTAIN HIGH VISIBILITY AND TESTING PURPOSES
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THE LISTS OF APPROVED PROVIDERS 4HESE FEDERAL AND STATE
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PROVIDING ABSTINENCE ONLY EDUCATION INCLUD
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ING hINTELLIGENT DESIGNv IN SCIENCE CURRICULA ARE
IN THIS WORLD IS FUNDED ALMOST ENTIRELY BY THE FEDERAL
INCREASINGLY REmECTED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVING 2$ FUNDING WILL
NEED TO MAINTAIN STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH KEY EXECU
s )NCREASING PUBLIC CONlDENCE IN GOVERNMENT AND
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OF EVIDENCE ALONG WITH THE TESTIMONIALS OF KEY
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s -AINTAIN POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AND PROGRAM OFlCERS IN KEY
FUNDING AGENCIES
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AND QUALITY STANDARDS
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SERVICES EDUCATION SERVICES PROVIDERS MAY
CONSIDER RECRUITING EXTERNAL CONSULTANTS WHO WILL
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SUPERVISION OF REGULAR PROVIDER STAFF
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LIMITED CHOICES TO PARENTS AND STUDENTS 4HE FOLLOWING h7HERE AN
DEEP CAUSES COULD LEAD TO THIS SCENARIO POUND GORILLA
SLEEPSv
4HE FAILURE REAL OR PERCEIVED OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS .ON 'OVERNMENT
TO ADEQUATELY EDUCATE ALL CHILDREN ANDOR THE
SUCCESS OF PRIVATIZED MODELS SPURS THE PRIVATIZA
TION OF EDUCATION
h7HERE AN POUND 'ORILLA
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AND HEALTH CARE PROMPT LAWMAKERS TO TURN TO IS DELIVERING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO THE TH !NNUAL
PRIVATIZATION AS A STRATEGY FOR REDUCING EDUCATION #ONFERENCE OF THE %DUCATION 0ROVIDER )NDUSTRY
SPENDING !SSOCIATION
,ARGE SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES MOVE INTO THE EDUCA 9OU SEE THROUGHOUT THE S AND S BUSINESS
TION MARKETPLACE AND QUICKLY GAIN DOMINANCE PEOPLE COMPLAINED THAT SCHOOLS NEEDED TO BE RUN MORE
RESULTING IN LIMITED CHOICES FOR PARENTS AND LIKE BUSINESSES FOCUSED ON THE BOTTOM LINE IN THEIR
STUDENTS CASE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT 4ONIGHT MORE THAN
3TUDENT MOBILITY CREATES A MARKET FOR SCHOOL YEARS AFTER THE .ATION AT 2ISK 2EPORT AND YEARS AFTER
FRANCHISES AS PARENTS SEEK OUT CONSISTENT EDUCA THE PASSAGE OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND LAW .#,"
TION OPPORTUNITIES WHEN THEY MOVE TO DIFFERENT ) THINK WED ALL AGREE THAT SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME MORE
LOCATIONS LIKE BUSINESSES )N FACT AS THE LARGE CROWD HERE TONIGHT
ATTESTS SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME BUSINESSES AND NOT JUST
4ECHNOLOGY CREATES EDUCATION EFlCIENCIES PRO ANY BUSINESS BUT BIG BUSINESSES POUND GORILLA
VIDING SUFlCIENT MARGINS TO ENTICE LARGE COMPA BUSINESSES
NIES TO ENTER THE MARKET )NSIDE THIS ROOM )M SURE MOST OF US SEE THIS IS AS
A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT /UTSIDE THIS ROOM THOUGH
)M SURE YOUVE ALL HEARD THE OLD JOKE ABOUT THE
THERE MAY BE SOME DIFFERENCE OF OPINION /KAY THATS A
POUND GORILLA 9OU KNOW THE ONE WHERE DOES AN
BIT OF AN UNDERSTATEMENT ) KNOW THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE
POUND GORILLA SLEEP 4HE PUNCH LINE !NYWHERE IT
WHO ARENT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THINGS HAVE TURNED OUT
WANTS
BUT ) SAY THAT OUR SCHOOLS MAY NOT BE PERFECT BUT FOR US
(ERE IN THIS ROOM TONIGHT WE HAVE MANY
HERE TONIGHT THERES ONE BIG DIFFERENCE 7E CAN NOW
POUND GORILLAS ) MEAN THAT lGURATIVELY OF COURSE
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
) DONT WANT TO DISSUADE ANYONE FROM EATING YOUR
7HEN !NN AT %DUCATION 0ROVIDERS )NDUSTRY !SSO
TIRAMISU WHICH IS VERY GOOD MY COMPLIMENTS TO THE
CIATION %0)! lRST ASKED ME TO PROVIDE SOME HISTORI
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2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
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THE WRONG GUY )M NO 3CHOOLS AS YOU MAY RECALL HAD WON A HUGE CONTRACT TO
HISTORIANv 3HE SAID RUN THE CITYS SCHOOLS AND +APLAN A YEAR LATER LANDED A
h3AM JUST TELL YOUR BIG CONTRACT TO DEVELOP AND PROVIDE A UNIl ED CURRICU
OWN STORY YOUVE UM TO THE DISTRICT )T WAS AN EXCITING TIME TO BE IN
LIVED THE HISTORY AND THE EDUCATION BUSINESS !LL THESE BIG PLAYERS MOVING
BEEN A MAJOR PART OF NTO THE MARKET AND ME WITH MY LITTLE AFTER
SCHOOL
THE TRANSFORMATION READING CENTER NEXT TO THE TATTOO PARLORS ON 3OUTH
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3O HERE IT IS
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SCHOOLS A RUN FOR THEIR
FORMATION OF THE EDUCATION MARKET FROM A GOVERNMENT MONEY 7ELL SOME
MONOPOLY TO AN INDUSTRY DOMINATED BY LARGE CORPORA
OF THEM WERE PUBLIC
TIONS MANY OF WHICH DIDNT EVEN EXIST YEARS AGO SCHOOLS RURAL
!ND THE ONES THAT DID WERE HARDLY GORILLAS AT BEST THEY SCHOOLS WAY OUT IN THE
WERE MAYBE SQUIRREL MONKEYS MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
WHICH HAD l GURED
#RACKS IN THE GOVERNMENT OUT HOW TO SHORE UP
MONOPOLY THEIR DWINDLING ENROLLMENT BY BRINGING IN KIDS hVIR
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SEIZED ON A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY AND OPENED MY l RST SOFTWARE COMPANY AND ) SAW A BIG OPPORTUNITY THERE
TUTORING CENTER IN 0HILADELPHIA -Y REASONS FOR DOING AND WENT FOR IT )N WE STARTED INCORPORATING HIS
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WHO COULD PROVIDE AFTER
SCHOOL SUPPLEMENTAL SERVICES ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY INTERESTED IN THE #HALLENGE
AND ) HAD READ SOMEWHERE THAT ONE OF THE BEST FRAN
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FEE SO ) DECIDED TO OPEN MY OWN BUSINESS THE l RST EVER
#."# REPORTED IN $ECEMBER THAT INVESTMENT ANALYSTS WERE GIVING STRONG MARKETS TO SUPPLEMENTAL SERVICE PROVIDERS REPORTING THAT THE
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3CHOOL 0ROVIDERS
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LIMPED ALONG FOR SEVERAL MORE YEARS AFTER THAT )N FACT 3CHOOL #HOICES
-ANY
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&OR THOSE OF YOU WHO DONT RECALL .#," WAS INITIALLY A
h7HERE AN
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SLEEPSv
SERVICES THAT HAD NEVER EXISTED BEFORE "UT ONE OF THE
.ON
'OVERNMENT
SCHOOL CHOICES AND SUPPLEMENTAL SERVICES AND THE
GRANDDADDY OF THEM ALL RECONSTITUTION )N FACT A
QUARTER OF THE NATIONS SCHOOLS NOW APPEARED TO BE
WELL ON THE PATH TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY THEIR STATES
OR SOME SIMILAR CONSEQUENCE 4HE PUBLIC NOT FULLY
WHICH WERE ALREADY STRAPPED FOR CASH BEGAN TO PUSH UNDERSTANDING WHY SCHOOLS HAD SUDDENLY GOTTEN SO BAD
BACK AGAINST THE LAW IN EARNEST SAYING IT WAS UNDER
GREW DOUBTFUL THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS WOULD EVER BE ABLE
FUNDED AND UNWORKABLE 7HERE THE REAL RESISTANCE TO l X THEMSELVES !T THE SAME TIME SUBURBAN PARENTS
CAME WASNT FROM LIBERAL STATES WHAT WE WERE CALLING WERENT EXACTLY
hBLUEv STATES BACK THEN BUT RATHER CONSERVATIVE STRONG
THRILLED THAT
HOLDS hREDv STATES LIKE 5TAH URBAN KIDS WERE
STARTING TO ENTER
THEIR SCHOOLS IN
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PUTERS AND STICK THEM IN THE BACK OF THE CLASSROOM "UT
WHY ) OPENED MY REMARKS TONIGHT WITH THE JOKE ABOUT
OVER TIME THEY l GURED OUT HOW COMPUTERS COULD AID
THE
POUND GORILLA
WITH ASSESSMENT DATA TRACKING REPORTING TO PARENTS
!LL KINDS OF STUFF THAT DISTRICTS AND SCHOOLS USED TO HAVE
TO HIRE PEOPLE TO DO OUR TEACHERS CAN NOW TAKE CARE 4HE NEED FOR CORPORATE RE
OF WITH THE CLICK OF A BUTTON 7E HAVE SWIPE CARDS SO SPONSIBILITY
OUR TEACHERS NEVER HAVE TO TAKE ATTENDANCE 7E HAVE ) KNOW ) PROBABLY SHOULDNT DO THIS BUT )M GOING
COMPUTERIZED ASSESSMENTS SO THEY DONT HAVE TO SPEND TO ANYWAY )M GOING TO CALL OUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE
ROOM POOR RURAL AND URBAN KIDS 4HEYRE THE BIGGEST
BLEMISH ON THE OTHERWISE AMAZING TRANSFORMATION OF
THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY WEVE HELPED CREATE 4HE CRITICS
OF THIS TRANSFORMATION ACCUSE US OF CREATING TWO EDUCA
TION SYSTEMS IN THIS COUNTRY ONE FOR THE HAVES AND
ONE FOR THE HAVE
NOTS
4O THOSE FOLKS ) WOULD POINT OUT THAT WEVE ALWAYS
HAD TWO EDUCATION SYSTEMS IN THIS COUNTRY THATS
NOTHING NEW "UT HERES WHATS NEW 7E CAN DO SOME
THING ABOUT IT 7E ARE THE
POUND GORILLAS )F WE
REALLY WANT SOMETHING TO GET DONE WE CAN GET IT DONE
2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
.OW ) KNOW THERES NO PROlT IN SERVING BLIGHTED URBAN WILL BE AN ESSENTIAL MEANS OF DELIVERING THIS TRAINING
COMMUNITIES OR POOR ISOLATED RURAL COMMUNITIES ) 2ESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THIS WORLD IS FUNDED
KNOW THAT THEIR VOUCHERS DONT COME CLOSE TO COVER BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR 4HERE IS STRONG SUPPORT FOR
ING THEIR COSTS ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS OR TESTING SOLUTIONS AND DEVELOPING EVIDENCE OF IMPACTS
NEED EXTRA HELP LEARNING %NGLISH OR NEED THEIR SCHOOL AND OUTCOMES TO SUPPORT THE APPROACHES USED BY THE
TO PROVIDE THEM WITH FREE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH POUND GORILLA ORGANIZATIONS
"UT THOSE KIDS ARE NO LESS SPECIAL THAN THE KIDS IN
THE EXURBS ,OOK ) THINK A LOT OF US GOT INTO THIS BUSI
)NDICATORS
NESS BECAUSE WE BELIEVED IT WAS IMPORTANT 3O TONIGHT
)M ANNOUNCING THAT #HALLENGE 3CHOOLS )NC IS CREAT 4HE FOLLOWING TRENDS AND EVENTS ARE POSSIBLE
ING A NEW NONPROlT FOUNDATION CALLED %XPANDING THE INDICATORS THAT THE FUTURE MAY BE MOVING TOWARD THIS
#HALLENGE THROUGH WHICH WELL COLLECT DONATIONS AND SCENARIO
START OPENING SCHOOLS IN IMPOVERISHED AREAS )D ASK
s 2APID EXPANSION OF A HANDFUL OF WELL DElNED
YOU ALL TO CONSIDER HOW YOUR COMPANIES MIGHT ALSO lND
SCHOOL MODELS EG +)00 #ORE +NOWLEDGE
NEW WAYS TO SERVE ALL KIDS SO WHEN SOMEONE STANDS AT
-ONTESSORI
THIS PODIUM YEARS FROM NOW THEYLL BE ABLE TO SAY
WITH CONlDENCE THAT WE WERE ALL PART OF THE SOLUTION s #HARTER SCHOOLS OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ALTERNATIVES
FOR LEAVING NO CHILD BEHIND DEMONSTRATION OF COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF THEIR
EFFECTIVENESS
s 2APID EXPANSION OF VOUCHER ANDOR PRIVATE SCHOOL
!NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO TAX CREDIT PROGRAMS
)MPLICATIONS s 2APID GROWTH IN THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN EDUCATED
)N THIS WORLD STRONG FEDERAL PRESENCE AND INTER
IN PUBLIC SCHOOL ALTERNATIVES ESPECIALLY IF A
VENTION IN EDUCATION IS A FAILED STRATEGY !S A RESULT LARGE PORTION OF THIS GROWTH IS CONCENTRATED IN A
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES HAVE FORMED BETWEEN PROVIDERS RELATIVELY LIMITED NUMBER OF SCHOOL MODELS FOR
OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WHICH EXAMPLE IF A FEW PLAYERS APPEAR TO CORNER THE
NOW DOMINATE THE MARKET /RGANIZATIONS THAT PROSPER MARKET ON CHARTER SCHOOL CONVERSIONS
IN THIS WORLD HAVE EITHER BECOME
POUND GORILLAS
OR HAVE ALLIED THEMSELVES WITH ONE OR MORE 4HESE s 4HE PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN EDUCATED IN
ALLIANCES WILL BE SHAPED AND FORMALIZED BASED ON THE ALTERNATIVE SETTINGS REACHING A hTIPPING POINTv IN
VALUE THAT EACH ALLY ADDS TO THE PROPOSITION 0ART OF THE BELLWETHER AREAS EG SUBURBS AND EXURBS WHERE
hVALUE PROPOSITIONv WILL BE BASED ON THE VISIBILITY CRED
SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN
IBILITY AND REPUTATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS !CCORDINGLY STRONG FOR EXAMPLE EVEN A RELATIVELY SMALL
BRANDING AND CO
BRANDING WILL BECOME AN INCREASING
PERCENTAGE EG OF PARENTS REMOVING THEIR
LY CRITICAL STRATEGY AND ASSET IN MARKETING AND SELLING TO CHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THESES AREAS COULD
CONSUMERS OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS DRAIN NEEDED RESOURCES FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
4HERE ARE TWO KEY AUDIENCES IN THIS WORLD 4HE lRST RAPIDLY TIP THE BALANCE IN FAVOR OF ALTERNATIVE
ARE DECISION MAKERS IN THE
POUND GORILLA ORGANIZA
MODELS
TIONS AND THEIR ALLIES 4HE SECOND ARE PARENTS WHO WILL s 0ROlTS POSTED BY PRIVATE EDUCATION COMPANIES
BE DECIDING INTO WHICH hFRANCHISEv SCHOOL THEY WILL LEADING TO AN INmUX OF CAPITAL NEEDED TO SUPPORT
ENROLL THEIR CHILDREN THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF PRIVATE
7ITH ONLY A FEW
POUND GORILLAS PROVIDING MODELS OF EDUCATION
PROGRAMS IN THIS WORLD FRANCHISING SCHOOLS IS A KEY
BUSINESS STRATEGY 4HIS REQUIRES SCALABLE TRAINING AND
DEVELOPMENT FOR FRANCHISEES 4HE USE OF hMIXED MEDIAv
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
s #ONTINUED DECLINES IN PUBLIC CONlDENCE IN 'OVERNMENT
GOVERNMENTS ABILITY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
s #ONTINUED DECLINES IN PUBLIC CONCERN ABOUT
3CHOOL 0ROVIDERS
EDUCATION IE OTHER ISSUES SUCH AS HEALTH CARE
3CHOOL #HOICES
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AND 3OCIAL 3ECURITY CONTINUE TO SURFACE AS MORE
IMPORTANT POLITICAL PRIORITIES
h7HERE AN
POUND GORILLA
/PTIONS SLEEPSv
/PTIONS IN THIS WORLD ARE LIMITED 0ROVIDERS CAN .ON 'OVERNMENT
EITHER WORK TO BECOME AN POUND GORILLA OR ALLY
THEMSELVES WITH ONE OR MORE ORGANIZATIONS LIKELY TO
EMERGE IN THIS WAY 0OSITIONING PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS
TO ALLY WITH MORE THAN ONE OF THE POUND GORILLA
ORGANIZATIONS WILL REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS
s 3HARPEN AN INTERNAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUE
PROVIDERS ADD TO PROGRAMS OFFERED BY OTHER ORGA
NIZATIONS
s %MPHASIZE THE USE OF MIXED MEDIA IN THE DESIGN
AND DELIVERY OF ALL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OFFERINGS
s )NCREASE THE USE OF MAINSTREAM AND EDUCATION
MEDIA NEWS AND EDITORIAL COVERAGE TO INCREASE
BRAND VISIBILITY
s $EVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE EVIDENCE OF THE IMPACT
AND OUTCOMES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
s ,OOK FOR AND ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS WITH
POTENTIAL GORILLAS EG SOFTWARE COMPANIES
SUPPLEMENTAL SERVICE PROVIDERS UNIVERSITIES
SUCCESSFUL CHARTER SCHOOL MODEL PROVIDERS AND
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WITH RECOGNIZABLE EDUCATION
RELATED hBRANDSv SUCH AS MUSEUMS AND MEDIA
COMPANIES
s "ECOME A RECOGNIZED PROVIDER OF INDEPENDENT
EDUCATION RESEARCH AND EVALUATION WITH VISIBILITY
WITH BOTH EDUCATION COMPANIES AND PARENTS EG
A h*$ 0OWER OF EDUCATIONv
s 0REPARE SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS TO SUPPORT
INSTRUCTION ON AND DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING SKILLS
FOR THE ST CENTURY IE IN LITERACY MATHEMATICS
AND SCIENCE
2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
3CHOOLS5NLIMITEDGOV 7HAT 'OVERNMENT
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)N THIS SCENARIO GOVERNMENT HAS STRONG CONTROL
&EW
OVER THE EDUCATION MARKET WHICH OFFERS MANY CHOICES
FOR SCHOOLING TO PARENTS AND STUDENTS 4HE FOLLOWING
DEEP CAUSES COULD LEAD TO THIS SCENARIO
0UBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE MODELS EG CHARTER .ON 'OVERNMENT
SCHOOLS DEMONSTRATE EFFECTIVENESS AND GAIN
STRONG SUPPORT FROM TAXPAYERS AND PARENTS
0ARENTS ACCUSTOMED TO CHOICES AND CUSTOMIZATION
h7HAT $OESNT +ILL 9OUv
IN OTHER MARKETS INCREASINGLY EXPECT THE SAME
LEVEL OF CHOICE AND CUSTOMIZATION IN THE EDUCA
4IME 3EPTEMBER
TION MARKETPLACE 0LACE 7INTER 0ARK #/
!N INCREASINGLY DIVERSE AND FRAGMENTED PUBLIC 3CENE -IGUEL 'ARCIA #%/ OF 3CHOOL 3UCCESS
WHICH IS UNABLE TO AGREE ON COMMON VALUES OR #ORPORATION IS GIVING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE
OUTCOMES FOR SCHOOLS NECESSITATES THE CREATION OF 3CHOOLS OF THE &UTURE #ONFERENCE
MULTIPLE MODELS OF SCHOOLING "UT WHAT ) CAN OFFER IS THIS A HISTORY OF THE PAST
YEARS OF EDUCATION ) STARTED OUT IN EDUCATION YEARS
! NEW COALITION POSSIBLY A THIRD PARTY OF
AGO AS A HISTORIAN TEACHING HISTORY IN THE ,OS !NGELES
POLITICAL MODERATES SUPPORTS THE PROLIFERATION
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 3O THATS WHAT ) DO ) CONSTANTLY LOOK
OF CHARTER SCHOOLS AS A COMPROMISE SOLUTION FOR
BACK AND ANALYZE HOW MUCH THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND
OFFERING A WIDE ARRAY OF CHOICES TO A FRAGMENTED
WHY
PUBLIC WHILE NONETHELESS MAINTAINING SOME GOV
3O ) THINK IT MAY BE IMPORTANT FOR US HERE AT THIS
ERNMENT CONTROL OVER EDUCATION
CONFERENCE TO RETRACE OUR STEPS "Y DOING SO WELL SEE
4ECHNOLOGY ENABLES GOVERNMENT TO MONITOR AND HOW MUCH OUR WORLD HAS CHANGED IN THE PAST YEARS
HOLD ACCOUNTABLE MULTIPLE MODELS OF SCHOOLING AND MAY GET A BETTER IDEA OF HOW MUCH CHANGE WE
COULD EXPECT TO SEE IN THE NEXT YEARS
)VE BEEN ASKED TO OFFER MY THOUGHTS ON WHAT 3O CLASS OPEN YOUR TEXTBOOKS TO PAGE ONE 3EE
SCHOOLS MAY LOOK LIKE YEARS FROM NOW ) KNOW THAT RIGHT THERE HOW
YOU PROBABLY l GURE THAT AS THE #%/ OF A WELL KNOWN ODD THAT SOUNDED
NONPROl T EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANI 7ELL IT DIDNT
ZATION THAT SERVES SCHOOLS AROUND THE COUNTRY ) WOULD SOUND SO STRANGE
HAVE MY l NGER ON THE PULSE OF CHANGE 7ELL ) HATE TO YEARS AGO /KAY
DISAPPOINT YOU BUT )M GOING TO SUM UP MY THOUGHTS OBJECT LESSON OVER
ON WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH EDUCATION IN THE FUTURE IN 0LEASE TURN OFF YOUR
FOUR WORDS ) HAVE NO IDEA PERSONAL COMPUTERS
9OU SEE THE PAST YEARS HAVE BROUGHT SO MANY AND JOIN ME IN A
PROFOUND AND UNEXPECTED CHANGES TO EDUCATION THAT WALK THROUGH RECENT
)M HESITANT TO MAKE A FOOL OF MYSELF BY SAYING SOME HISTORY STARTING IN
THING HERE THIS AFTERNOON THAT WED ALL GET A GOOD LAUGH THE YEAR
ABOUT IN YEARS
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
3EEDS ARE SOWN
,OOKING BACK YOU CAN SEE THAT ALL OF THE SEEDS OF
CHANGE FOR THE PAST YEARS HAD ALREADY BEEN SOWN
IN &OR EXAMPLE THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT
.#," WAS MOVING MORE AND MORE SCHOOLS CLOSER TO CALLY BASED EVIDENCE 9OU MAY RECALL THAT THE 7HAT
BEING TAKEN OVER OR CONVERTED INTO CHARTERS BY THEIR 7ORKS #LEARINGHOUSE HAD JUST BEGUN AND THERE WAS
STATES /NLINE AND DISTANCE LEARNING WAS BURGEON
VERY LITTLE IN IT TO GIVE EDUCATORS AND POLICYMAKERS
ING 4HE NUMBER OF HOME SCHOOLERS HAD PASSED THE MUCH GUIDANCE ) SHOULD ADD THAT BACK IN THE
MILLION MARK 4HE CHARTER MOVEMENT WAS STRONG AND FUTURE OF THE CHARTER SCHOOL MOVEMENT REALLY APPEARED
GROWING 2ELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES WERE BEING CALLED TO TO BE UP
FOR
GRABS AS THEY WERE PRODUCING MIXED
LEAVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS /F COURSE AT THE TIME LIKE THE RESULTS 3OME SCHOOLS WERE SHOWING STRONG GAINS BUT
"IBLICAL PARABLE IT WOULDVE BEEN HARD TO KNOW WHICH ON THE WHOLE MOST CHARTER SCHOOLS DID NOT APPEAR TO
SEEDS WOULD FALL ON HARD GROUND WHICH WOULD BE BE ADDING MUCH VALUE TO THEIR STUDENTS LEARNING 3O
CARRIED AWAY BY THE WIND AND WHICH WOULD SPROUT INTO THE FEW PROGRAMS AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT WERE ABLE TO
SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES DEMONSTRATE SUCCESS REALLY STARTED TO CATCH ON
!LSO IN STATES BEGAN TO PUSH BACK FORCIBLY
AGAINST THE LAW CALLING IT UNDER
FUNDED AND IN NEED OF
SEVERAL REVISIONS 7HAT WAS PERHAPS MOST STRIKING IS
THAT THE REAL RESISTANCE TO THE LAW CAME NOT ONLY FROM
MORE TRADITIONALLY LIBERAL STATES BUT ALSO FROM CONSER
VATIVE STATES LIKE 5TAH AND OTHER PLACES THAT WERE
#HARTERS TAKE ROOT STRONG SUPPORTERS OF 'EORGE 7 "USH
$URING THE SUMMER OF WE SAW THE l RST WAVE
OF UNDER
PERFORMING SCHOOLS SCHOOLS THAT HAD FAILED
TO MEET ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS AS DEl NED BY .#,"
BEING CONVERTED INTO CHARTER SCHOOLS )MMEDIATELY
STATES BEGAN LOOKING AROUND FOR SUCCESSFUL MODELS OF
SCHOOLING
!T THE TIME THERE REALLY WERENT TOO MANY TO
CHOOSE FROM AT LEAST NOT IF YOU HELD THEM TO THE HIGH
STANDARD OF EFFECTIVENESS AS DEMONSTRATED BY SCIENTIl
!S NOTED EARLIER RESEARCH ON CHARTER SCHOOLS HAS GENERATED MIXED RESULTS TO DATE 3OME STUDIES HAVE PRODUCED POSITIVE l NDINGS A 2AND
#ORP STUDY FOUND #ALIFORNIA CHARTERS PERFORM AS WELL AS OR BETTER THAN TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS AND A (ARVARD 5NIVERSITY STUDY FOUND CHARTER
SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE MORE PROl CIENT IN READING AND MATHEMATICS THAN STUDENTS AT NEARBY TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS "UT OTHER STUDIES HAVE REPORTED
NEGLIGIBLE OR NEGATIVE OUTCOMES A -ARCH %CONOMIC 0OLICY 3TUDY FOUND THAT THE hAVERAGE IMPACTv OF CHARTER SCHOOLS hIS NEGATIVEv AND A
!MERICAN &EDERATION OF 4EACHERS STUDY FOUND FOURTH
GRADE CHARTER SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE PERFORMING ABOUT A HALF
YEAR BEHIND STUDENTS IN
TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
/N &EBRUARY A SPECIAL TASK FORCE CREATED BY THE .ATIONAL #ONFERENCE OF 3TATE ,EGISLATURES .#3, RELEASED A BIPARTISAN REPORT
THAT RECOMMENDED FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES TO 0RESIDENT "USHS .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND EDUCATION REFORM LAW TO INCREASE ITS EFFECTIVENESS 4HE .#3,
REPORT INCLUDED SPECIl C RECOMMENDATIONS TO REVISE THE ACT WHICH IT CRITICIZED AS A hONE SIZE l TS ALLv SYSTEM THAT STIm ES INNOVATION AT THE STATE
LEVEL 3OURCE -OTLAGH * &EBRUARY 3TATES WANT CHANGES TO .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND 5NITED 0RESS )NTERNATIONAL
2EPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS AND PROFESSED SUPPORTERS OF 0RESIDENT "USH LED A WELL PUBLICIZED PUSH FOR 5TAH TO OPT OUT OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT
"EHIND !CT /N &EBRUARY %DUCATION 7EEK REPORTED THAT MANY hRED STATEv 2EPUBLICANS ARE OPPOSED TO WHAT THEY SEE AS THE LAWS hRAFT OF
PRESCRIPTIONS AS ENCROACHING ON STATE AND LOCAL TURF AND IMPOSING UNWARRANTED COSTSv $AVIS - &EBRUARY h5TAH )S 5NLIKELY &LY IN
"USHS 3CHOOL /INTMENT v %DUCATION 7EEK PP
2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
&INALLY ON A PERSONAL NOTE ) SHOULD ADD THAT THE 'OVERNMENT
FRAMEWORK FOR THE 3CHOOL 3UCCESS #ORPORATION WAS
SKETCHED OUT ON A NAPKIN LATE THAT FALL !T THE TIME ) h7HAT DOESNT
KILL YOUv
WAS WORKING FOR A REGIONAL LABORATORY AND A GOOD FRIEND
3CHOOL 0ROVIDERS
OF MINE ,ANGSTON $AVIS WAS THINKING OF OPENING A 3CHOOL #HOICES
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CHARTER SCHOOL IN INNER CITY 3T ,OUIS ONE WHICH HE
WANTED TO BE BASED ON RIGOROUS RESEARCH YET BE INDI
VIDUALIZED TO THE NEEDS OF ITS AT
RISK STUDENTS (E ASKED
ME IF ) COULD HELP HIM DESIGN SUCH A PROGRAM AND SAID
NOTHING WAS OFF THE TABLE h)F IT WORKS IT WORKS v HE
.ON
'OVERNMENT
SAID (IS QUESTION WAS SOMETHING THAT ) FELT LIKE ) HAD
SPENT TWO DECADES WAITING TO BE ASKED SO ) GLADLY TOOK
HIM UP ON HIS CHALLENGE
h0RUNINGv PUBLIC SCHOOLS
$IVIDES REMAIN CHARTERS GROW "Y THE FALL OF FULLY ONE
l FTH OF THE NATIONS
"Y IT BECAME APPARENT THAT WE WERE NO KIDS HAD ENROLLED IN CHARTER SCHOOLS THREE
FOLD
CLOSER TO SOLVING THE BITTER PARTISAN AND CULTURAL DIVIDE GROWTH IN THREE YEARS -ORE AND MORE BIG PUBLIC
THAT HAD SPLIT THE COUNTRY $EMOCRATS HOPING FOR A SCHOOLS WERE BEING
MID
TERM BOUNCE POURED MILLIONS INTO INCREASINGLY REPLACED BY SMALL
CANTANKEROUS #ONGRESSIONAL BATTLES WHICH BROUGHT AC
CHARTER SCHOOLS SOME
CUSATIONS OF FRAUD FROM BOTH SIDES )N THIS ENVIRONMENT TIMES OPERATING WITHIN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE LIMPING ALONG GENERALLY IMPROV
THE SAME FOUR WALLS )T
ING YET NOT FAST ENOUGH TO OUTPACE THE RISING BAR OF WAS NOT UNLIKE WHAT
ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS !90 TARGETS )N THE SUMMER HAPPENS WHEN YOU
OF AS STATES WERE REQUIRED TO RAISE THE BAR ON !90 PRUNE A BUSH IN YOUR
ANOTHER MUCH LARGER WAVE OF LOW
PERFORMING SCHOOLS YARD 9OU CUT A BRANCH
WAS TAKEN OVER BY THEIR STATES AND TURNED INTO CHARTERS AND TWO OR THREE GROW
/NCE AGAIN EDUCATORS WERE IN A MAD SCRAMBLE TO l ND BACK IN ITS PLACE "ACK
EFFECTIVE MODELS OF SCHOOLING IN THOSE DAYS FOR
)M PLEASED TO SAY THAT THE KIDS IN MY FRIEND EACH BIG UNSUCCESSFUL
,ANGSTONS SCHOOL PERFORMED VERY WELL ATTRACTING SOME OVERGROWN SCHOOL WE
CONSIDERABLE MEDIA ATTENTION 0EOPLE STARTED CALLING TRIMMED THREE OR FOUR
,ANGSTON AND ASKING HIM HOW HED DONE IT 4HE l RST NEW ONES WOULD SPROUT
THING OUT OF HIS MOUTH WAS hRESEARCHv 4HE SECOND IN ITS PLACE
THING WAS MY NAME -Y PHONE STARTED RINGING OFF THE 'ENERALLY SPEAKING
HOOK AND ) HUNG OUT MY SHINGLE AS THE 3CHOOL 3UCCESS AS THESE FRAGMENTED
!SSOCIATES AND HIRED SOME OF MY OLD REGIONAL LABORA
SCHOOLS TOOK THE PLACE
TORY FRIENDS TO ANSWER THE CALLS 9OU SEE THERE WAS A OF LARGER SCHOOLS THEY
GROWING BODY OF EVIDENCE IN THOSE DAYS 4HE 7HAT REm ECTED THE INCREASING
7ORKS #LEARINGHOUSE WAS STARTING TO TAKE OFF "UT EDU
BALKANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY AND COMMUNITIES !L
CATORS NEEDED PEOPLE TO HELP THEM SIFT THROUGH ALL THE THOUGH SOME PEOPLE RESISTED IT SAYING THAT OUR SCHOOLS
EVIDENCE !ND THATS WHERE WE CAME IN 7ED SEPARATE SHOULD BE hCOMMON SCHOOLSv WHERE OUR KIDS WOULD
FACT FROM l CTION AND TRAIN TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS LEARN TO COME TOGETHER AS !MERICANS IN REALITY SOME
TO APPLY THE RESEARCH TO THEIR CLASSROOMS AND SCHOOLS TIMES BREAKING A SCHOOL UP INTO A BUNCH OF SMALLER
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
2 $ /RGANIZATION 3CENARIO
UNITS WAS THE ONLY SENSIBLE SOLUTION 9OU HAD PARENT )N CASE YOURE WONDERING ) JUST TURNED LAST WEEK
GROUPS NEARLY COMING TO BLOWS OVER WHICH MODEL THEY WHICH TECHNICALLY MAKES ME A MEMBER OF hGENERATION
WANTED FOR THEIR KIDS 3OME WANTED ETHNIC CENTERED *ONESv THE GENERATION SANDWICHED BETWEEN BOOMERS
CURRICULUM OTHERS WANTED CORE KNOWLEDGE 3OME AND 'EN 8ERS !CTUALLY ) FEEL VERY MUCH LIKE A
WANTED A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH OTHERS DIRECT INSTRUC HYBRID OF BOOMER IDEALISM )M DEEPLY MOTIVATED BY
TION 3OME WANTED A LAPTOP IN EVERY BACKPACK OTHERS A DESIRE TO HELP ALL KIDS BUT ) ALSO HAVE THAT 'EN 8ER
WANTED TO BAN CALCULATORS 3OME WANTED ATHLETICS PRAGMATISM ) NEVER GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE READING OR
OTHERS WANTED ARTS 3OME WANTED EVOLUTION OTHERS IN MATH WARS OR ANY OF THAT STUFF ,IKE MY FRIEND ,ANGS
TELLIGENT DESIGN 3OME WANTED BILINGUAL OTHERS WANTED TON WHO IS A 'EN 8ER MY ATTITUDE IS VERY MUCH hIF IT
IMMERSION )T WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE EVERYONE WORKS IT WORKSv
)N THIS FRAGMENTED ENVIRONMENT THE BEST SOLUTION
FOR DISTRICTS OR STATE CHARTER BOARDS WAS TO SAY @&INE
SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE YOUR APPROACH WORKS AND YOU
CAN GO OFF AND DO YOUR OWN THING !T ONE POINT
3CHOOL 3UCCESS CONSIDERED DEVELOPING A hFRANCHISE v A
MODEL FOR SCHOOLING THAT WE WOULD SELL TO CHARTER OP
ERATORS 7E DIDNT GET VERY FAR WITH THAT PLAN THOUGH
BECAUSE IN THIS ENVIRONMENT EVERYONE BASICALLY WANTED
TO DO THEIR OWN THING 9OU SAW A FEW ORGANIZATIONS TRY
9OU ALSO HAD A NEW GENERATION OF SCHOOL LEADERS
TO MAKE A GO OF THE FRANCHISE CONCEPT )M THINK
SO CALLED h'EN 8ERSv WHO WERE AN ENTIRELY DIFFER
ING OF %DISON AND +)00 AND SOME OTHERS BUT AS THE
ENT BREED THAN THEIR BOOMER PREDECESSORS 4HEY WERE
MARKET BECAME INCREASINGLY FRAGMENTED AND LOCALLY
FAR MORE PRAGMATIC AND MUCH LESS FOCUSED ON THE BIG
DRIVEN IT BECAME HARDER AND HARDER TO MAKE THAT
PICTURE ) DUG UP A QUOTE FROM $AVID -ASTERSON WHO
MODEL WORK ) JUST READ SOMEWHERE THAT +)00 %DISON
RAN A l NE ARTS ORIENTED CHARTER SCHOOL IN THE "RONX
AND 3YLVAN THE THREE MOST POPULAR CHARTER MODELS IN
THAT NICELY SUMS UP 'EN 8ERS MORE PRAGMATIC AND
THE COUNTRY REPRESENT LESS THAN PERCENT OF THE TOTAL
ARGUABLY LESS PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO EDUCATION )N
ENROLLMENT OF THE COUNTRY #HURCH SCHOOLS ACCOUNT FOR
RESPONSE TO A REPORTER ASKING HIM WHETHER HE THOUGHT
ABOUT ANOTHER PERCENT %VERYBODY ELSE IS ORDERING
IN THE LONG RUN IT WAS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY TO HAVE ALL
FROM THE A LA CARTE MENU WHEN BUILDING THEIR SCHOOL
THESE SCHOOLS GOING OFF IN THEIR OWN SEPARATE DIRECTIONS
PROGRAMS
GIVING KIDS VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES HE REPLIED h)S IT
GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY -AYBE NOT "UT IS IT GOOD FOR MY
2EMOVING THORNS FROM .#,"
KIDS TO GO TO A SCHOOL THAT NURTURES THEIR TALENTS AND
CHALLENGES THEM !BSOLUTELY )M TRYING TO HELP THE "Y THE TIDE BEGAN TO TURN ON SCHOOL TAKEOVERS
KIDS ) CAN HELP THE ONES RIGHT HERE IN THIS SCHOOL DUE IN PART TO A LOT OF SCHOOLS ESPECIALLY A LOT OF THE
4HE ALTERNATIVE YOU KNOW IS TRYING TO PROVIDE ALL NEWLY CONVERTED CHARTER SCHOOLS MAKING SOME SIGNIl
THINGS TO EVERYONE AND IN REALITY PROVIDING NOTHING TO CANT PROGRESS BUT ALSO DUE TO SOME REGULATORY AND LEGIS
ANYONE 4HATS HOW OUR SCHOOLS USED TO OPERATE AND IN LATIVE CHANGES TO THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND LAW 7ITH
MY OPINION IT DIDNT GET US OR OUR KIDS VERY FARv THE ELECTION SEASON IN FULL SWING NEITHER PARTY
WANTED TO NECESSARILY COME OUT IN FAVOR OF THE LAW NOR
$EMOGRAPHER *ONATHAN 0ONTELL COINED THE TERM h'ENERATION *ONESv FOR THIS AGE GROUP BORN BETWEEN AND WHICH HE NOTES
COMPRISES THE LARGEST ADULT GENERATION IN THE 53 4HE NAME h*ONESv DENOTES BOTH THE FACT THAT THIS GENERATION HAS REMAINED LARGELY ANONYMOUS
A GENERATION h3MITHv OR h$OEv AND REPRESENTS AN AVERAGE FAMILY NEXT DOOR BALANCE BETWEEN BOOMERS IDEALISM AND 'EN
8ERS CYNICISM 3OURCE
'ENERATION *ONES 7EB SITE HTTPGENERATIONJONESCOMINDEX?OLDHTM
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3CHOOL #HOICES
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AGAINST IT SO MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES REALIZED THE BEST
SOLUTION WAS TO TAKE IT OFF THE TABLE ALTOGETHER 4HEY .ON
'OVERNMENT
TWEAKED .#," JUST ENOUGH TO QUIET THE MOST STRIDENT
CRITICS CREATING FOR EXAMPLE MORE ACCOMMODATIONS
FOR SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS AND TRACKING %NGLISH ,ANGUAGE
#OMPROMISE GROWS IN THE
,EARNERS AS A SUBGROUP THROUGHOUT THEIR ENTIRE ACADEM
FURROWS
IC CAREERS 9ET THEY KEPT ENOUGH OF THE LAW LIKE THE
TESTING AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS AND A NEWLY MODI
4HE OUTCOME OF THE 0RESIDENTIAL ELECTION
l ED !90 SYSTEM IN PLACE TO KEEP ITS SUPPORTERS HAPPY CAUGHT MANY PUNDITS BY SURPRISE "UT IT SHOULDNT HAVE
MORE OR LESS 3INCE THE
-OST EDUCATORS AND STATE LAWMAKERS APPLAUDED S A PLURAL
THESE CHANGES AS BRINGING A NEEDED DOSE OF COMMON ITY OF VOTERS
SENSE TO THE FEDERAL LAW ! FEW PEOPLE WORRIED THAT HAD IDENTIl ED
THERE MIGHT BE SOME SHENANIGANS FOR EXAMPLE THEY THEMSELVES
WORRIED THAT THE RANKS OF SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS MIGHT SWELL AS INDEPEN
AS SCHOOLS SOUGHT TO GET MORE KIDS OUT OF THE !90 SPOT
DENT &OR
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THE IDEOLOGICALLY SING THE (ALLELUJAH #HORUS EVERY MORNING STANDING
DIVIDED BOOMERS ON THEIR HEADS AS LONG AS THEIR ;TEST= SCORES SHOW THEIR
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IS THAT SCHOOLS HAVE HAD NO TROUBLE l NDING GOOD TEACH
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THAT WHAT LOOKED LIKE A GOLD RUSH A FEW YEARS BEFORE TIONS ITS CONTROLLED BY PARENTS WHO ARE EACH FREE TO
HAD TURNED INTO FOOLS GOLD 3IMPLY PUT AS EVERYONE MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT KIND OF EDUCA
IN THIS ROOM KNOWS WHILE WE AS A NATION STILL SPEND A TION THEY WANT FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND WHAT THEY WANT
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WANT WHATS BEST FOR OUR KIDS AND OTHER KIDS ) GOT CURRICULAR PROGRAMS ARTS PROGRAMS CARPENTRY AND OTHER
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"Y #ONGRESS AND STATEHOUSES AROUND THE
COUNTRY WERE l NDING IT INCREASINGLY DIFl CULT TO FUND
PUBLIC EDUCATION EITHER THROUGH TRADITIONAL DIRECT
FUNDING MECHANISMS OR VOUCHERS -ANY MORE STATE
LEGISLATURES RESORTED TO BUDGETARY SLEIGHT OF HAND
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HAD ONCE FOUGHT VIGOROUSLY AGAINST CHARTERS AND VOUCH
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)NTRODUCTION
3 ANDIA IS A GEOGRAPHICALLY LARGE SPARSELY POPULATED STATE IN THE 'REAT 0LAINS 4HERE ARE TWO
MEDIUM
SIZED URBAN CENTERS WHICH ACCOUNT FOR PERCENT OF THE STATES POPULATION 4HE
REMAINING POPULATION IS SCATTERED ACROSS THE STATES NEARLY SQUARE MILES OF AGRICULTURAL FOREST AND
DESERT LANDS 3ANDIAS POPULATION REmECTS RECENT LARGE INmUXES OF IMMIGRANTS FROM -EXICO AND OTHER
3PANISH
SPEAKING COUNTRIES
4HE MAJOR INDUSTRIES IN 3ANDIA ARE AGRICULTURE MINING AND LOGGING 4HESE EXTRACTION INDUSTRIES
HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN AT THE MERCY OF WORLD DEMAND FOR RAW MATERIALS AND REPEATED BOOM OR BUST ECO
NOMIC CYCLES 4HIS HAS LED TO WIDELY mUCTUATING REVENUE STREAMS FOR THE STATE
4HE 3ANDIA $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION 3$% SERVES THE ENTIRE STATES PUBLIC +n EDUCATION COM
MUNITY !S STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION GO IT IS SOMEWHAT SMALL DUE TO THE LOW STATE POPULATION AND
A CONSERVATIVE STATE BUDGET "ECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY IN STATE REVENUES FROM YEAR TO YEAR STATE INVEST
MENT IN AGENCY INFRASTRUCTURES HAS BEEN LEAN 3$% EMPLOYS APPROXIMATELY FULL
TIME STAFF 7HILE
SALARIES ARE MODEST THE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM PROVIDES A BETTER THAN AVERAGE PENSION AND THUS IS AN
INCENTIVE FOR INDIVIDUALS TO CONSIDER EMPLOYMENT WITH 3$% 4HE #HIEF 3TATE 3CHOOL /FlCER IN 3ANDIA
$R !NDREA #OREY IS A STRONG LEADER BUT SHE HAS INDICATED SHE MAY BE RETIRING SOON (ER APPROACH TO
MANAGING THE DEPARTMENT IS TO MAINTAIN FOCUS ON WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANTSERVING THE CHILDREN OF THE
STATE
4HE MAJOR OPERATING DEPARTMENTS OF 3$% FOCUS ON SCHOOL AND DISTRICT ACCREDITATION EDUCATOR LICENS
ING STATE
WIDE ASSESSMENT AND STANDARDS FEDERAL PROGRAMS MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING AND EDUCATION
lNANCE ADMINISTRATION 4HE TWO LARGEST OFlCES ARE 4ITLE ) AND 3PECIAL %DUCATION /VER HALF OF ALL 3$%
STAFF ARE FEDERALLY FUNDED 4HE DEPARTMENT ALSO HOUSES THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION THE STATE LIBRARY AND
ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS
!S WITH MOST STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION 3ANDIA FACES MANY CHALLENGING ISSUES INCLUDING LACK
OF lNANCIAL RESOURCES CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT .#," COMPLEXITY
OF MANY SCHOOL CHOICE INITIATIVES MAINTAINING A HIGHLY QUALIlED CADRE OF TEACHERS AND ADDRESSING THE
SPECIAL DEMANDS OF THEIR GROWING MIGRANT AND NON
NATIVE %NGLISH SPEAKING POPULATIONS
%DUCATION &INANCE
!S IN MOST STATES EDUCATION IS THE LARGEST SINGLE ITEM IN THE STATE BUDGET )N PAST YEARS THE NEWSPA
PER AND LOCAL 46 STATIONS HAVE CALLED THE STATE TO TASK OVER ITS DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS WHICH SOME VIEW
AS INEQUITABLE .OW THE STATE IS FACING SCHOOL lNANCE LITIGATION QUESTIONING THE EQUITY AND ADEQUACY OF
STATE AID DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS #ONSEQUENTLY STAFF EXPECTS TO BEGIN WORKING ON AN EXTENSIVE MODIlCA
TION OF EDUCATION FUNDING FORMULAS AS THE STATE LEGISLATURE ADDRESSES THE ADEQUACY OF OVERALL lNANCING
OF +n EDUCATION 4HE CHALLENGE WILL BE TO DEVISE A METHOD FOR ALLOCATING FUNDS IN WAYS THAT FULlLL
CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND PRODUCE DESIRED RESULTS IN LINE WITH .#," 0RESSURE FROM OTHER SOURCES
ON THE STATES GENERAL OPERATING BUDGET INCLUDING SPIRALING TRANSPORTATION AND HEALTH CARE COSTS MEANS
THAT 3$% CANNOT EXPECT TO SEE SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN FUNDING IN THE NEAR FUTURE
.#,"
3$% HAS STRUGGLED WITH THE ACCOUNTABILITY PORTIONS OF .#," $EVELOPERS OF THE STATE ASSESSMENT
ADDRESSED FOUR LEVELS OF PROlCIENCY RATHER THAN THE THREE CALLED FOR IN .#," WHICH REQUIRED A REVAMP
ING OF THE SYSTEM SHORTLY AFTER IT WAS LAUNCHED TO ACCOMMODATE THIS FEDERAL LAW /VER THE PAST TWO YEARS
NEARLY HALF OF THE STATES SCHOOLS HAVE FAILED TO MAKE ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS AS MEASURED BY THE STATE
ASSESSMENT 3UPPLEMENTARY SERVICES ARE SCARCE AND COSTLY TO PROVIDE IN RURAL AREAS AND IN THE STATES TWO
URBAN CENTERS $UE TO LIMITED CAPACITY WITHIN THE AGENCY IT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE TO MONITOR QUALITY AND
IMPACT AMONG THE AVAILABLE SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE PROVIDERS
3CHOOL #HOICE
3ANDIA HAS ENACTED A VOLUNTARY STATEWIDE SCHOOL CHOICE PROGRAM 4HE VOLUNTARY NATURE OF THE
PROGRAM TOGETHER WITH THE LACK OF FUNDING FOR TRANSPORTATION AND WIDE DISPARITIES IN PER
PUPIL SPENDING
AMONG DISTRICTS HAMPER THE SUCCESS OF THE PROGRAM )N RURAL AREAS CHOICE IS A NEAR PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITY
DUE TO THE LONG DISTANCES BETWEEN ATTENDANCE CENTERS 3TUDENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO WANT TO TRANSFER FROM
A SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH LESS LOCAL REVENUE TO A DISTRICT WITH HIGHER PER PUPIL SPENDING RATES 4HE STATES
FUNDING FORMULA USES THE hSENDINGv DISTRICTS CONTRIBUTION SO THERE IS LITTLE INCENTIVE FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT
TO ACCEPT THESE STUDENTS
4EACHER 1UALITY
3$% FACES A TWO
FOLD PROBLEM WITH THE STATES TEACHER WORKFORCE ! SUBSTANTIAL PERCENTAGE OF TEACH
ERS ARE NEAR RETIREMENT AGE 4HOSE WITH FEWER THAN lVE YEARS IN THE PROFESSION COMPRISE THE NEXT LARGEST
GROUP OF 3ANDIA TEACHERS 4HERE ARE PROPORTIONALLY FEWER EXPERIENCED TEACHERS WHO ARE MANY YEARS FROM
RETIREMENT 4EACHER SALARIES IN THE STATE HAVE TYPICALLY BEEN ON THE LOW END OF THE NATIONAL AVERAGE
WITH EVEN LOWER SALARIES PAID TO TEACHERS IN RURAL AREAS 4HIS COUPLED WITH THE ISOLATION OF MANY RURAL
COMMUNITIES AND LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCEMENT PROMPTS MANY EXPERIENCED TEACHERS TO MOVE
TO MORE lNANCIALLY REWARDING JOBS IN LARGER TOWNS AND CITIES 4HESE FACTORS ALSO INHIBIT TEACHER RECRUIT
ING AND LIMIT THE POOL OF EXPERIENCED CANDIDATES FOR LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
-IGRANT AND .ON
.ATIVE %NGLISH 3PEAKING 0OPULATIONS
"ECAUSE 3ANDIAS POPULATION REmECTS RECENT LARGE INmUXES OF IMMIGRANTS FROM -EXICO AND OTHER 3PANISH
SPEAKING COUNTRIES 3ANDIAS STATE GOVERNMENT AND 3$% IN PARTICULAR FACE POLITICALLY CHARGED QUESTIONS
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH TAXPAYER SERVICES SHOULD BE EXTENDED TO IMMIGRANTS PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO
DO NOT HAVE LEGAL STATUS 5NCERTAINTY ABOUT THE NATIONS DIRECTION ON IMMIGRATION POLICY FUELS UNCER
TAINTY IN 3$% AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IT SERVES ABOUT THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF EDUCATION SERVICES THAT
WILL BE REQUIRED FOR IMMIGRANT AND SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENTS 5NTIL THERE IS AGREEMENT AND CLARITY ON
THIS ISSUE 3$% AND LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE DEGREE POSSIBLE GIVEN THE
LIMITED FUNDING THEY RECEIVE
&OCAL )SSUE
! NEWLY FORMED TASK FORCE WILL EXAMINE THE LONG
TERM IMPLICATIONS OF EMERGING DEMOGRAPHIC AND
ECONOMIC TRENDS IN 3ANDIA AS WELL AS ON THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCENE 4HE TASK FORCE CONSIST
ING OF SENIOR AND MID
LEVEL STAFF BOARD AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WILL FORMULATE STRATEGIES FOR ANTICIPAT
ING AND RESPONDING TO POTENTIAL CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND RESOURCES THAT WILL SHAPE 3$%S
AGENDA A DECADE FROM NOW IN THE YEAR
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY !BUNDANT
3CENARIO h0ARTY 4IMEv
$EEP #AUSES
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE
lNANCIAL SUPPORT FOR +n EDUCATION IS ABUNDANT AND
2ESOURCES
THAT FEDERAL REGULATION HAS DIMINISHED CONSIDERABLY
3TATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION lND THEMSELVES IN A
COMPLETELY NEW KIND OF ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEIR ROLE
AS MONITORS AND ENFORCERS OF FEDERAL EDUCATION REGULA
3CARCE
TIONS HAS DIMINISHED -EANWHILE THE LEVEL OF FUNDING
AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC EDUCATION FROM BOTH PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE SOURCES HAS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY 3TATE DE
s 0RIVATE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES CREATE PROGRAMS
PARTMENT OF EDUCATION STAFF ARE FACED WITH RE
ENVISION
SPECIlCALLY TO FUND INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY
ING THEIR ROLES AND LEARNING HOW TO ASSERT INmUENCE IN
SOLUTIONS FOR SCHOOLS 4HIS CREATES MARKETS
AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE MAJOR FUNDING FOR +n EDUCA
FOR THESE SOLUTIONS AND MORE BUSINESS FOR THE
TION COMES FROM SOURCES OUTSIDE THEIR PURVIEW &UR
TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
THERMORE THEY WILL NEED TO PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO
MAINTAINING ORGANIZATIONAL COHERENCE 'IVEN THE SHIFT s -ANY FOR PROlT AND NONPROlT COMPANIES OPEN
IN THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT MANY NEW OPTIONS ARE SCHOOLS THAT DELIVER CUSTOMIZED LEARNING AND
AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO ARE CREATIVE AND AGILE ENOUGH TO ASSESSMENT SERVICES TO SPECIlC SEGMENTS OF THE
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM EDUCATION MARKET
4HE FOLLOWING DEEP CAUSES COULD LEAD TO THIS SCENARIO s )NVESTMENT SCANDALS PERPETRATED BY SOME
EDUCATION SERVICE PROVIDERS RESULT IN THE PUBLIC
s 3TATES SUCCEED IN OBTAINING RELIEF FROM REGULATIONS
NEEDING SOME INDEPENDENT ASSURANCE THAT
UNDER .#,"
EDUCATIONAL CHOICES ARE REPUTABLE AND HIGH
s &EDERAL REGULATIONS SHIFT FROM GOVERNING PUBLIC QUALITY
EDUCATION TO ENSURING QUALITY EDUCATION PRODUCTS
s "USINESS INTERESTS PREVAIL IN THE IMMIGRATION
AND SERVICES FOR ALL
DEBATE OPENING THE DOORS TO INCREASED NUMBERS
s 6OTER DISAPPROVAL OF A STRONG FEDERAL ROLE IN OF NEW WORKERS FROM -EXICO AND #ENTRAL
EDUCATION COUPLED WITH PRAGMATIC THINKING FROM !MERICA
THE 'EN
8ERS WHO ASSUME NEW CONGRESSIONAL
SEATS LEADS TO A DIFFERENT FEDERAL APPROACH TO
FUNDING EDUCATION 4HIS NEW APPROACH FOCUSES
ON SETTING STANDARDS DESIGNING USEFUL ASSESSMENT
SYSTEMS AND ENSURING QUALITY
s 4HE WAR IN THE -IDDLE %AST ENDS REDUCING THE
DRAG ON THE FEDERAL TREASURY AND FREEING UP FUNDS
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
s 3TATE AGENCIES ARE GIVEN MORE LATITUDE IN HOW
THEY ACHIEVE THEIR MISSIONS OPENING THE DOOR
FOR MORE mEXIBLE APPROACHES INCLUDING PUBLIC
PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
4HOSE OLD BOUNDARIES lRST BLURRED AND THEN WENT AWAY
h0ARTY 4IMESv COMPLETELY AS A mURRY OF INNOVATION FUELED BY REDUCED
4IME REGULATION INCREASED lNANCIAL RESOURCES AND GREATER
COLLABORATION ACROSS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS CREATED
0LACE 4HE &OURTH !NNUAL &UTURE OF %DUCATION IN
A NEW WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOTH PURVEYORS AND
3ANDIA CONFERENCE BEING HELD AT AN UPSCALE RESORT IN THE
CONSUMERS OF EDUCATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
NORTHERN MOUNTAINS
!S YOU KNOW lVE YEARS AGO IN THE 3ANDIA
3CENE $R !NDREA #OREY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFlCER OF 3TATE $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION 3$% JOINED WITH
THE PUBLIC
PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP %DUCATION FOR 3ANDIAS A CONSORTIUM OF PRIVATE BUSINESSES AND FOUNDATIONS
&UTURE IS DELIVERING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO ASSEMBLED TO CREATE THE PUBLIC
PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP %DUCATION
CONFEREES 4HE AUDIENCE INCLUDES MANY PUBLIC AND FOR 3ANDIAS &UTURE 4HIS UNIQUE VENTURE EMBRACED A
PRIVATE SCHOOL LEADERS AS WELL AS REPRESENTATIVES FROM MISSION TO HARNESS THE BEST THAT PUBLIC CHARITABLE AND
NUMEROUS PRIVATE SECTOR COMPANIES THAT HAVE SPRUNG PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE TO OFFER FOR THE EDUCATION OF
UP OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS TO ADDRESS THE DEMAND FOR OUR CHILDREN 4HE PARTNERSHIP HAS CREATED A PLATFORM
HIGHLY CUSTOMIZED DECENTRALIZED EDUCATION SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY TO POOL THEIR RESOURCES TO
)N ADDITION TO THE CONFERENCE THERE IS A LARGE TRADE FUND AND GUIDE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT THAT SUPPORTS
SHOW WITH EXHIBITORS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THE FUTURE WORKFORCE NEEDS OF THIS COUNTRY 4HE CHARI
TABLE AND PHILANTHROPIC MEMBERS OF THE PARTNERSHIP
VIGILANT OVER THE hSOCIAL GOODv THAT MIGHT COME OF OUR
'OOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO THE FOURTH ANNUAL
WORK ENSURED THAT OUR EFFORTS DID NOT BECOME SIMPLY
&UTURE OF %DUCATION IN 3ANDIA CONFERENCE ) WANT TO
THE TOOL OF BUSINESS INTERESTS 4HE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
THANK CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS FOR ONCE AGAIN CHOOS
THROUGH 3$% EVOLVED FROM REGULATION TO THAT OF RE
ING A SPLENDID VENUE FOR THIS EVENT AND FOR DOING AN
SEARCH EVALUATION AND QUALITY CONTROL PROVIDER
OUTSTANDING JOB OF ORGANIZING THE EDUCATIONAL AND
3UCH A PARTNERSHIP WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN FORMED
SOCIAL EVENTS WELL BE ENJOYING THROUGHOUT THE COURSE
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A LOOSENING OF THE REINS IN
OF THE CONFERENCE "EFORE YOU RETURN HOME PLEASE BE
7HEN STATE REGULATIONS ABOUT THE KINDS OF ENTERPRISES A
SURE TO SPEND TIME IN THE EXHIBIT HALL WHERE YOU WILL
STATE AGENCY COULD PARTICIPATE IN WERE EASED 3$% WON
EXPERIENCE THE BIGGEST TRADE SHOW WE HAVE EVER HAD
THE RIGHT TO BE A CHARTER AUTHORITY OPENING THE DOOR FOR
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS CONFERENCE !S ) WAS WALKING
MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS AND STATE
CHARTERED DISTRICTS 4HIS
THROUGH THE HALL EARLIER THIS MORNING ) SAW MANY FA
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR TWO
MILIAR VENDORS NAMES AND FACES PLUS LOTS OF INTRIGUING
OTHER DRAMATIC CHANGES &IRST THERE WERE CHANGES IN
NEW ONES 7HO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THERE COULD
FEDERAL AND STATE REGULATIONS GOVERNING HOW TAX
GENER
BE SO MANY DIFFERENT PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE TO
ATED FUNDS FOR EDUCATION COULD BE USED TO ACHIEVE THE
ASSIST IN OUR CHILDRENS EDUCATION -Y WE LIVE IN EXCIT
ULTIMATE GOAL OF LEAVING NO CHILD BEHIND !ND SECOND
ING REWARDING AND SOMETIMES SURPRISING TIMES
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FUELED BY PUBLIC SPIRIT AND OF COURSE
4HIS MORNING ) BEGIN BY REmECTING UPON WORLD
SELF
INTEREST SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY TO INJECT NEW
EVENTS OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS THAT HAVE SHAPED EDUCA
VITALITY INTO THE MORIBUND SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY THAT
TION INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY )NDEED THE EDUCATIONAL
PRODUCED GOODS AND SERVICES FOR EDUCATION CONSUMERS
ENTERPRISE IS VERY DIFFERENT NOW THAN IT WAS lFTEEN
4HE IMPETUS FOR THESE CHANGES CAME FROM SOME
YEARS AGO WHEN ) lRST ASSUMED THE ROLE OF CHIEF STATE
LIKELY AND UNLIKELY PLACES ,ETS START WITH THE LIKELY
SCHOOL OFlCER IN 3ANDIA &OR ME IT HAS BEEN A CHAL
"EGINNING IN THE STATES LED BY 5TAH MOUNTED A
LENGING AND SOMETIMES BUMPY RIDE )VE HAD TO LEARN
REVOLT AGAINST THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT .#,"
NEW WAYS OF THINKING AND WORKING IN ORDER TO SERVE
BY PASSING LEGISLATION THAT PUT STATE EDUCATION REGULA
AS AN EFFECTIVE LEADER FOR OUR ENTERPRISE .O LONGER DO
TION ABOVE FEDERAL REGULATION )T WAS THE lRST OF MANY
WE SPEAK OF hPUBLIC EDUCATIONv OR h+n EDUCATIONv
SUCH ACTIONS TO RESTORE THE CONCEPT OF FEDERALISM TO
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
OUR WAY OF GOVERNING 4HE STATES WERE EMBOLDENED BY !BUNDANT
THE REPORT 4ASK &ORCE ON .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND
&INAL 2EPORT RELEASED BY THE .ATIONAL #OUNCIL OF 3TATE h0ARTY 4IMEv
,EGISLATURES .#3, )N THAT REPORT .#3, URGED THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO REMOVE OBSTACLES IN THE LAW THAT
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
STImED INNOVATION AND TO CREATE A WAIVER SYSTEM FOR
2ESOURCES
INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS THAT HAD DEMONSTRATED EFFECTIVE
NESS .#3, ALSO URGED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO FULLY
FUND .#," AND REDUCE THE REGULATORY BURDEN PASSED
ALONG TO STATES SO THAT THEY COULD EXERCISE lNANCIAL
3CARCE
mEXIBILITY IN MEETING THEIR UNIQUE NEEDS )N ADDITION
.#3, RECOMMENDED THAT THE GOVERNMENT REMOVE
THE ONE
SIZE
lTS
ALL METHOD FOR MEASURING STUDENT
PERFORMANCE AND ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE FEDERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT DESIGNED A BETTER MOUSE
SOPHISTICATED AND ACCURATE SYSTEMS THAT GAUGE THE TRAP AND THE NATION BEAT A PATH TO ITS DOOR 4HE NEW
GROWTH OF INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS 9OU WILL RECALL )M SURE NATIONAL TESTS WERE GOOD AND LAST YEAR PRIVATE COLLEGES
THAT MANY STATES WERE SHOCKED BY THE 'OVERNMENT !C
AND UNIVERSITIES BEGAN TO ACCEPT THEM AS ENTRANCE
COUNTABILITY /FlCES lNDING THAT .#," DID NOT VIOLATE EXAMS FOR THE lRST TIME
THE 5NFUNDED -ANDATE 2EFORM !CT 2ELIEVED OF THE MASSIVE ADMINISTRATION AND EN
7HAT ENSUED WAS A lGHT OVER WHETHER THE FEDERAL FORCEMENT COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH FEDERAL EDUCATION
GOVERNMENT COULD WITHHOLD FUNDING FROM DISSENTING REGULATIONS OF THE PAST THE $EPARTMENT NOT ONLY
STATES $UE TO VOTER DISAPPROVAL COUPLED WITH PRAG
FOCUSED ITS RESOURCES ON THE QUALITY AND UTILITY OF THE
MATIC NEW THINKING FROM 'EN
8ERS WHO WERE ASSUMING NATIONAL TESTING PROGRAM BUT IT ALSO SET ASIDE MORE
CONGRESSIONAL SEATS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RELENTED DOLLARS FOR hNO
STRINGS
ATTACHEDv BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES
ON ITS PLAN TO WITHHOLD FUNDING FROM STATES THAT HADNT !T ABOUT THE SAME TIME ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE
TOED THE LINE 4HE SELECTION OF -ARGARET 3PELLINGS AS THE 5NITED 3TATES WITHDREW ITS TROOPS FROM THE -IDDLE
3ECRETARY OF %DUCATION IN SIGNALED THE BEGINNING %AST AFTER HELPING TO STABILIZE DEMOCRATIC REGIMES IN
OF THIS TREND .O LONGER WOULD THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT )RAQ )RAN 3YRIA !FGHANISTAN AND 0ALESTINE 7ITHOUT
TELL STATES AND LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS HOW TO IMPROVE THE WARTIME DRAG ON THE NATIONAL TREASURY TAX RATES DE
OUTCOMES FOR ALL CHILDREN )NSTEAD THE GOVERNMENT CLINED BUT REVENUES INCREASED AND BUSINESS mOURISHED
BEGAN TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF GUARANTEEING QUALITY PROD
SO THERE WERE MORE FEDERAL DOLLARS AVAILABLE FOR SOCIAL
UCTS AND SERVICES FOR ALL AND CREATING A NATIONAL SYSTEM PROGRAMS 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE RESCUE ISSUES
OF TESTING THAT WAS SECOND TO NONE !S THE hQUIDv TO THAT WERE ONCE IN THE FOREFRONT BECAUSE OF THE TREMEN
THE FEDERAL hPRO QUO v THE STATES AGREED TO ACCEPT THE DOUS lNANCIAL CHALLENGE THEY PRESENTED FOR THE COUNTRY
NATIONAL TEST RESULTS AS THE BASIS UPON WHICH DIPLOMAS NO LONGER WORRIED US
WOULD BE GRANTED AS WELL AS HOW ADMISSIONS TO STATE !S FOR STATES WITH THEIR NEW
FOUND mEXIBILITY IN
SUPPORTED COLLEGES WOULD BE DETERMINED ADMINISTERING FEDERAL BLOCK GRANTS THEY PLUNGED
!S THE EXISTENCE OF A NATIONAL TEST SUGGESTS A DE WHOLESALE INTO MODIlED VOUCHER PROGRAMS ALLOCATING
FACTO NATIONAL CURRICULUM HAD SLOWLY BUT THOUGHTFULLY BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDS TO INDIVIDUALS RATHER THAN
EMERGED BORN OUT OF THE STANDARDS MOVEMENT FROM THE INSTITUTIONS 4HIS SPARKED A mURRY OF LAWSUITS HOWEVER
S 4O ITS CREDIT THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION AND THE SUCCESS OF MANY OF THESE SUITS AGAINST STATE
IN ITS NEW ROLE OF PROMULGATING THE CURRICULUM WHILE SCHOOL lNANCE SCHEMES RESULTED IN MANY STATES SIMPLY
MONITORING TEST DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION DID A RETREATING FROM INVOLVEMENT IN REGULATING SCHOOL
BANG
UP JOB OF BOTH 4O BORROW A WELL
WORN PHRASE THE lNANCE AT ALL 4HIS CREATED EVEN MORE mEXIBILITY AT THE
LOCAL LEVEL
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
!N UNLIKELY CATALYST FOR THE BLOSSOMING OF ENTRE !S YOU HAVE LISTENED TO THIS RETROSPECTIVE YOU
PRENEURSHIPS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW EDUCATION HAVE HEARD HOW THE LIFTING OF REGULATIONS ON SCHOOL
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WAS THE "USH ADMINISTRATIONS ING FUELED BY PRESSURE FOR MORE CHOICE FROM 'EN 8
PROPOSAL IN TO ELIMINATE FUNDING FOR THE %N AND -ILLENNIAL PARENTS SENT THE DEMAND FOR A VARIETY
HANCING %DUCATION THROUGH 4ECHNOLOGY STATE BLOCK OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES SKYROCKETING &ROM THE
GRANT PROGRAM THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF FEDERAL FUNDING TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING DOWN THE STREET
FOR SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY 4HIS ACTION HAD THE SURPRISING TO THE STOREFRONT MINI SCHOOL TO ONLINE SCHOOLS AND
EFFECT OF ACTUALLY BEING A BOON TO EDUCATIONAL TECH INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS TO SCHOOLS IN CHURCH
NOLOGY 2ECOGNIZING THE LOSS OF SCHOOL BUSINESS THIS BASEMENTS AND CORPORATE DAY CARE CENTERS TO DELUXE
CUT WOULD PRECIPITATE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES BANDED hSEE THE WORLDnWHILE YOU LEARNv TOURS THE MULTIPLICITY
TOGETHER TO FUND THEIR OWN SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS OF WAYS IN WHICH EDUCATION IS NOW BEING DELIVERED IS
-ICROSOFT )"- !PPLE AND A HOST OF OTHER COMPANIES STAGGERING
POOLED THEIR RESOURCES TO CONTINUE SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY 4HIS PROFUSION OF INNOVATION IN THE EDUCATION MAR
PROGRAMS BASED ON NEW MODELS THAT -ICROSOFT HAD DE KETPLACE HAS NOT BEEN WITHOUT ITS DOWNSIDE HOWEVER
VELOPED 4HEIR MOTIVATION MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO REPLACE !S WITH MOST BOOM TIME INDUSTRIES THE EXPLOSION IN
REVENUE FROM THE PROGRAMS THEY WOULD LOSE WHEN THE THE EDUCATION MARKETPLACE ATTRACTED THE BEST AND THE
FEDERAL FUNDING WAS ELIMINATED BUT IN REALITY THEY WORST OF ENTREPRENEURS AND BUSINESSMEN )N TRUTH THE
CREATED SOMETHING MUCH LARGER A MARKET FOR NEW VAST MAJORITY OF NEW EDUCATION BUSINESSES HAVE DELIV
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 3INCE HUNDREDS OF TECHNOLOGY ERED ON THEIR PROMISES 3OME IN FACT HAVE PRODUCED
COMPANIES HAVE LAUNCHED NEW DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS TREMENDOUS VALUE FOR CONSUMERS /N THE OTHER HAND
AIMED AT CREATING AND MARKETING ALL MANNER OF HARD MANY OF THE NEW COMPANIES WERE ESTABLISHED BY WELL
WARE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES FOR SCHOOLS MEANING INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE VERY POOR BUSINESS
9ET ANOTHER MARKET OPENED FOR TECHNOLOGY COMPA PEOPLE !S A RESULT THEIR VENTURES QUICKLY CAME AND
NIES AS THE NUMBER OF HOME SCHOOLERS INCREASED WHEN WENT AS CONSUMERS WHO PURCHASED THEIR PRODUCTS AND
THE REGULATIONS WERE LIFTED %DUCATION CONSUMERS FOUND SERVICES FOUND THAT THE TECH SUPPORT LINE WAS DISCON
THEMSELVES WITH MORE DISPOSABLE INCOME AS A RESULT OF NECTED OR THEIR EFFORTS TO CONTACT THE COMPANY WERE
THE IMPROVING ECONOMY AND LOWER TAXES 4HEY BECAME UNSUCCESSFUL
MORE INTERESTED IN PURCHASING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 7ORSE YET OTHER COMPANIES WERE LITTLE MORE THAN
THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTAL CUS BAIT AND SWITCH SCHEMES PROMISING THE WORLD AND DE
TOMIZED EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEIR CHILDREN AT LIVERING NOTHING 4HEN THERE WERE THE 0ONZI SCHEMES
HOME ON VACATION OR IN THE BACKSEAT OF THE FAMILY WHERE ENTREPRENEURS SOLICITED NEW INVESTORS USING
MINIVAN #ONTINUED INCREASES IN RESOURCES SPURRED THE PROMISES OF GREAT RETURNS )N FACT OLD INVESTORS WERE
TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY TO INVEST IN NEW CREATIVE AP SIMPLY BEING PAID WITH MONEY FROM NEW INVESTORS
PROACHES TO LEARNING FUELING ADVANCES IN VIRTUAL LEARN THERE WAS NO ACTUAL NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT %VEN
ING TECHNOLOGY NEVER SEEN BEFORE TUALLY THE PYRAMID COLLAPSED AND EVERYONE LOST MONEY
4HE EXPLOSION OF INNOVATION IN EDUCATION WAS NOT EXCEPT THE ORGANIZERS OF THE SCHEME SOME OF WHOM
LIMITED TO TECHNOLOGY lRMS -ANY RETIRED AND SEMI ARE NOW ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF THE STATE PRISON
RETIRED BABY BOOMERS STILL COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING
THE DEMOCRATIC PURPOSES OF EDUCATION PURSUED ENTRE
PRENEURIAL VENTURES INVESTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
MANY OF THE NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES DISPLAYED IN THE
ADJOINING EXHIBIT HALL !S A SIDE BENElT BOOMERS WHO
HAVE STAYED IN THE WORKFORCE HAVE CONTINUED TO PAY
INTO 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE THUS RELIEVING SOME
OF THE PRESSURES ON THESE SYSTEMS
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
SYSTEM WHILE OTHERS ARE SUNNING THEMSELVES ON DISTANT !BUNDANT
BEACHES
)N THE MIDST OF ALL OF THIS BUSINESS ACTIVITY MANY h0ARTY 4IMEv
COMPANIES BOTH GOOD AND BAD hWENT PUBLICv 4HIS
CREATED A WHOLE NEW INVESTMENT SECTOR ATTRACTING HUGE
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
SUMS OF MONEY FROM PRIVATE AND INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
2ESOURCES
4HESE PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES FOUND THEMSELVES
UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE 3ECURITIES AND %XCHANGE
#OMMISSION )N A FEW ISOLATED BUT NOTORIOUS CASES
MORE COMPANY OFlCIALS FOUND THEMSELVES STAYING AT THE
3CARCE
GRAY BAR HOTEL
#ONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF SOME OF THE EDU
CATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE TO CONSUMERS
THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION SOUGHT AUTHORITY FOR POSITIONS WITHIN 3$% THAN EVER BEFORE AND THE
FOR AND EVENTUALLY ESTABLISHED THE %DUCATION 1UALITY CALIBER OF APPLICANTS IS TRULY ASTOUNDING 4EN YEARS AGO
#OMMISSION +NOWN AS THE %1# IT IS FUNDED BY A WE WOULD HAVE LOST THIS CALIBER PERSON TO OTHER PROFES
VALUE
ADDED TAX ON ALL EDUCATION PRODUCTS SOLD 7HILE SIONS SUCH AS MEDICINE
IT HAS NO ACTUAL REGULATORY AUTHORITY THIS COMMISSION )VE TALKED QUITE A BIT THIS MORNING ABOUT THE MANY
MAKES GOOD USE OF ITS hBULLY PULPITv BY INSISTING THAT NEW EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BUT VERY LITTLE
THE $EPARTMENT FUND AND DISSEMINATE RESEARCH ON ABOUT THE CONSUMERS OF THESE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EDUCATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES /NE OF THE LARGEST ISSUES WE FACED AS A STATE AND A
THROUGH A REVITALIZED 7HAT 7ORKS #LEARINGHOUSE )T NATION DURING THE PAST DECADE WAS THE TREMENDOUS
TURNED TO STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION AS INDE
INmUX OF IMMIGRANTS MOST OF WHOM DIDNT SPEAK
PENDENT PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS TO CONDUCT THE %NGLISH )N THE FACE OF COMPETING PUBLIC CONCERNS
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION NECESSARY TO DETERMINE EF
ABOUT LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BUSINESS INTERESTS
FECTIVENESS THUS CREATING A WHOLE NEW LINE OF BUSINESS WON OUT HEADING OFF RESTRICTIONS ON IMMIGRATION IN
FOR STATE AGENCIES !LONG THE WAY 3$% REALIZED THAT ORDER TO ENSURE THEMSELVES THE STEADY SUPPLY OF LABOR
WHILE MANY CONSUMERS WERE SAVVY ENOUGH TO PROTECT NEEDED TO FUEL THE GROWING ECONOMY )T WAS INCUM
THEMSELVES FROM SHODDY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AND BENT UPON THE EDUCATION COMMUNITY TO PROVIDE THE
CONlDENCE SCHEMES OTHERS NEEDED A HELPING HAND OPPORTUNITY FOR SECOND
LANGUAGE LEARNERS TO BECOME
%VENTUALLY WE CREATED AND PRODUCED A NEW PRODUCT PROlCIENT IN %NGLISH AND IN OTHER SUBJECTS SO THAT THEY
#ONSUMER 2EPORTS FOR EDUCATION PRODUCTS COULD FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY IN OUR SOCIETY AND AS AN ES
.EW LINES OF WORK LIKE THIS ONE HAVE KEPT OUR SENTIAL PART OF OUR WORKFORCE 4HIS CREATED THE NEED FOR
AGENCY VIABLE !FTER ALL MUCH OF OUR FORMER BUSINESS A WHOLE NEW RANGE OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO ADDRESS
RELIED ON ADMINISTERING AND MONITORING FEDERAL PRO
THE PARTICULAR NEEDS OF THESE STUDENTS 4HE INDUSTRY
GRAMS 7ITH THIS WORK LARGELY DRIED UP WE HAVE GONE AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS IN OUR PUBLIC
FROM BEING PROVIDERS OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO BEING PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROVIDED MANY OF THE RESOURCES
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION lRMS !LONG WITH THIS CHANGE TO DEVELOP THESE NEW TOOLS )NSPIRED BY THE CHALLENGE
IN OUR CORE BUSINESS WE REFOCUSED OUR STAFlNG EFFORTS THEY TURNED THEIR EVER
MOUNTING INVENTORIES OF BARELY
SEEKING NEW EXPERTISE -OST OF OUR RECENTLY HIRED STAFF OBSOLETE COMPUTER EQUIPMENT INTO WELL
EQUIPPED
MEMBERS WERE RECRUITED FROM UNIVERSITIES AND PRIVATE STOREFRONT LEARNING LABORATORIES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS
RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS 7E NOW HAVE MORE APPLICANTS AND OTHER NON
TRADITIONAL STUDENTS
!S ) CONCLUDE THIS LOOK AT THE CHANGES OVER THE LAST
DECADE AND HOW THEY AFFECTED THE BUSINESS SECTOR ) CAN
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
ONLY ASK WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT ! WHOLE NEW !NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO
INDUSTRY HAS ARISEN FROM THE NEED FOR PERIODIC TESTING
TO DETERMINE WHETHER OUR CHILDREN WERE ACHIEVING THE )MPLICATIONS
GOALS IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL PLANS AND DIAGNOSING THEIR 2EDUCED GOVERNMENT REGULATION IN GENERAL IS LIKELY
ONGOING LEARNING NEEDS .OW THERE ARE TESTING CENTERS TO RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN BUSINESS ACTIVITY AND IN
ON SEEMINGLY EVERY STREET CORNER AS WELL AS A MULTITUDE CREASED TAX REVENUES !S STATES REDUCE THEIR REGULATORY
OF SECURE ONLINE TESTING CENTERS 4HE TESTS THEY ADMIN CONTROL OVER PUBLIC SCHOOLING MORE DECISIONS WILL BE
ISTER ARE AVAILABLE IN A RANGE OF LANGUAGES AND MODES IN LEFT TO PARENTS 3OME STATES MAY FARE BETTER ECONOMI
ORDER TO ADDRESS THE DIFFERENCES IN HOW CHILDREN LEARN CALLY THAN OTHERS 4HIS COULD RESULT IN DIFFERENCES IN
!S YOU KNOW THESE CENTERS NOT ONLY REPORT RESULTS THE QUALITY AND VARIETY OF EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FROM
RELATED TO ACHIEVEMENT OF SPECIlC INDIVIDUAL LEARNING STATE TO STATE &EDERAL EFFORTS TO ENSURE QUALITY WILL
GOALS THEY ALSO PROVIDE DETAILED INDIVIDUAL DIAGNOSTIC SERVE TO PROMOTE SOME CONSISTENCY
AND PRESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION !T LAST WE HAVE ASSESS 4HERE WILL BE INCREASED OPTIONS FOR CUSTOMIZED EDU
MENTS THAT ACTUALLY HELP US DELIVER BETTER INSTRUCTION CATION FOR SPECIlC SEGMENTS OF THE SCHOOL POPULATION
)T WAS A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT THAT WAS A LONG TIME INCLUDING IMMIGRANTS REQUIRING SPECIALIZED SERVICES
COMING 3CHOOL CHOICE WILL BE THE RULE NOT THE EXCEPTION
3O HERE WE ARE TODAY LIVING IN A VASTLY DIFFERENT #OMMERCIAL COMPANIES ESPECIALLY TECHNOLOGY lRMS
WORLD FROM JUST A DECADE AGO ,EARNING ANYTIME ANY WILL BE BIG PLAYERS AND FUNDERS 3%!S WILL HAVE A DIF
WHERE IS A REALITY AND INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING IS NOW FERENT ROLE MORE FOCUSED ON ENSURING QUALITY THROUGH
THE NORM AND IS NOT JUST FOR A CHOSEN FEW !S A NATION RESEARCH AND EVALUATION !S A RESULT 3%! STAFF WILL
OUR LITERACY AND NUMERACY RATES ARE UP #HILDREN ARE NEED A DIFFERENT MIX OF SKILLS !SSESSMENTTESTING WILL
LEARNING 0UBLIC AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE FOUND BE EVEN BIGGER BUSINESS THAN IT IS NOW
NEW WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THE BETTERMENT OF 4HE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR THE 3%! TO BECOME FRAG
SOCIETY AND COMMERCE )N THIS NEW WORLD OF LEARNING MENTED AND NOT SYSTEMIC IN ITS APPROACH AND FOR IT
OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND 4ODAY ) INVITE ALL OF YOU TO JOIN TO LOSE TOUCH WITH ITS CUSTOMERS #OMMUNICATION
ME IN THIS GRAND NEW ENTERPRISE 4HE FUTURE IS OURS BETWEEN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE 3%! COULD DECREASE
AND 3%! PROGRAMS COULD BEGIN TO OPERATE INDEPEN
DENTLY OR AT CROSS PURPOSES WITH ONE ANOTHER
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
)NDICATORS /PTIONS
%VENTS AND TRENDS THAT COULD SIGNAL THE DEVELOP
&OR 3%!S TO CONTINUE TO BE RELEVANT AND EFFECTIVE
MENT OF THIS SCENARIO INCLUDE IN THIS ENVIRONMENT THEY MUST CLEARLY UNDERSTAND
THEIR CUSTOMERS NEEDS AND ACT ON THAT KNOWLEDGE TO
s 3TATES PREVAIL IN GAINING RELIEF FROM .#," RE
PLAN THEIR WORK AND DELIVER COORDINATED HIGH
QUALITY
QUIREMENTS
SERVICES 4HEY WILL NEED TO WORK WITH STATE LEGISLATURES
s 3TATE AGENCIES GAIN MORE mEXIBILITY IN HOW THEY TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE mEXIBILITY TO COLLABORATE WITH
ARE ALLOWED TO OPERATE AS ORGANIZATIONS OTHER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS IN CREATIVE WAYS
!LONG WITH THIS 3%!S SHOULD ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION
s 4HERE IS REDUCED PRESSURE ON FEDERAL EDUCATION OF COMMERCIAL lRMS INCLUDING THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
FUNDING DUE TO REDUCTIONS IN DEFENSE SPENDING WHENEVER POSSIBLE WHILE AVOIDING SELLING OUT TO COM
REFORMS IN 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE AND MERCIAL INTERESTS
INCREASES IN TAX REVENUES 4HERE WILL BE AN INCREASED NEED FOR STAFF WITH
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION SKILLS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO
s 4HE FEDERAL ROLE IN EDUCATION SHIFTS AWAY FROM
UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF SECOND
LANGUAGE LEARNERS #OL
DICTATING OUTCOMES AND FUNDING PROGRAMS AT THE
LABORATION WITH HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRIVATE RESEARCH
STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL TO BEING MORE OF A NATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS WILL BOLSTER RESEARCH AND EVALUATION CAPA
LEADER IN ENSURING QUALITY
BILITIES &UTURE STAFlNG REQUIREMENTS SHOULD BE EXAM
s 3TATE ECONOMIES BEGIN TO GROW AND LEGISLATURES INED CONTINUALLY TO ENSURE THAT 3%! STAFF SKILLS ARE A
ARE WILLING TO SPEND ON EDUCATION MATCH WITH CUSTOMER SERVICE NEEDS )T WILL BE VITAL TO
BROADEN THE DElNITION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ORDER TO
s #OMMERCIAL lRMS INCREASE THEIR INVESTMENT IN ENCOMPASS A WIDE RANGE OF STRATEGIES FOR DELIVERY 4O
EDUCATION THROUGH DIRECT FUNDING OF PROGRAMS REMAIN COHERENT AND FOCUSED THE 3%! MUST ENGAGE IN
AND THROUGH AGGRESSIVE PRICING OF PRODUCTS AND RIGOROUS ORGANIZATION
WIDE LONG
TERM PLANNING AND IN
SERVICES TO SCHOOLS CREASE COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE AGENCY &URTHERMORE
s .ATIONAL SURVEYS SHOW AN INCREASED INTEREST IN 3%!S SHOULD LOOK FOR AND EXPLOIT OPPORTUNITIES FOR
EDUCATION BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC COLLABORATION AND LEVERAGING ACROSS AGENCY PROGRAMS
s #ONSUMERS OF EDUCATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
BEGIN TO SELECT ALTERNATIVE PROVIDERS AT A GREATER
PACE LEAVING THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM
s 3%! STAFF AND PROGRAMS BEGIN TO GROW
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY !BUNDANT
3CENARIO
$EEP #AUSES
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT GOVERNMENT lNANCIAL
SUPPORT FOR +n EDUCATION IS LIMITED AND THAT GOV
2ESOURCES
ERNMENT REGULATION OF +n EDUCATION HAS DECLINED
CONSIDERABLY AT BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS ,IKEWISE h(ARD 4IMESv
STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION HAVE SEEN THEIR ROLES
AS MAJOR CONDUITS AND MANAGERS OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR 3CARCE
+n EDUCATION DECLINE )N THE PAST AS MUCH AS HALF OF
THE FUNDING mOWING TO THESE AGENCIES HAS BEEN THROUGH
THE FEDERAL 4ITLE ) AND )$%! PROGRAMS 3TAFF ASSIGNED
TO THESE PROGRAMS IS NO LONGER NEEDED FOR THESE SPECIlC
TASKS 4HESE STATE AGENCIES ARE STRUGGLING TO lND A ROLE h(ARD 4IMESv
IN THE NEW ENVIRONMENT 4IME
4HE FOLLOWING DEEP CAUSES COULD LEAD TO THIS SCENARIO 0LACE 4HE CONFERENCE ROOM OF THE OFlCES OF 3ANDIAS
3TATE $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION
s !MERICA EXPERIENCES A GENERAL ECONOMIC DECLINE
DUE TO THE HIGH COSTS OF THE WAR IN )RAQ AND ITS 3CENE $R !NDREA #OREY HAS CONVENED A STRATEGIC
AFTERMATH HOMELAND SECURITY 3OCIAL 3ECURITY PLANNING SESSION WITH HER SENIOR STAFF TO IDENTIFY HOW
AND -EDICARE AND SOARING OIL PRICES RESULTING IN THE AGENCY WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT 3ANDIAS EDUCATORS
CUTS TO EDUCATION SPENDING AND STUDENTS
s 3TATES SUCCEED IN OBTAINING RELIEF FROM REGULATIONS
UNDER .#," OR SIMPLY OPT OUT OF THE PROGRAM
DECLINING THE FEDERAL DOLLARS ASSOCIATED WITH 4HANK YOU ALL FOR CLEARING YOUR SCHEDULES TO BE HERE
COMPLIANCE TODAY !S YOU KNOW WEVE PLANNED A DAY
LONG SESSION
TO DO THE IMPORTANT WORK OF IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES
s !S ONE WAY OF ADDRESSING THE LACK OF RESOURCES
FOR 3$% TO FOCUS ON IN THE COMING YEARS 4OGETHER WE
STATES REDUCE THEIR OWN REGULATORY CONTROL OVER
WILL DETERMINE HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE OP
PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY WATERING DOWN ACCREDITATION
PORTUNITIES IN A WAY THAT WILL HAVE A REAL MEASURABLE
STANDARDS
IMPACT ON 3ANDIANS
s %CONOMIC DECLINE LEADS TO REDUCTIONS IN SPENDING )F YOU HAVENT ALREADY PLEASE HELP YOURSELF TO THE
FOR OTHER SOCIAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARLY CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM "ECAUSE
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PREVENTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS OF THE SERIOUS NATURE OF THIS MEETING ) RECEIVED SPECIAL
AND OTHER SERVICES FOR DISADVANTAGED FAMILIES APPROVAL FROM THE BOARD TREASURER TO WAIVE OUR POLICY
RESULTING IN INCREASED NUMBERS OF SCHOOL
AGE OF NOT USING DISTRICT FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOOD AT MEET
CHILDREN GOING WITHOUT BASIC HEALTH CARE SUCH AS INGS (OWEVER CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST WAS AS MUCH OF A
IMMUNIZATIONS AND VISION AND HEARING SCREENINGS hMEALv AS ) WAS ABLE TO GET COVERED AND SO AS YOU KNOW
YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR OWN LUNCH WHICH WILL
s 3CHOOL ENROLLMENT DROPS DUE TO NEW MORE ARRIVE AT NOON 7E@VE SCHEDULED A
MINUTE BREAK AT
RESTRICTIVE IMMIGRATION POLICIES AT THE NATIONAL MID
MORNING AND MID
AFTERNOON ) HAVE TURNED OFF MY
LEVEL AND A GENERAL LOSS OF FAITH BY THE PUBLIC IN CELL PHONE AND TRUST THAT YOU TOO HAVE TURNED OFF YOUR
THE SAFETY AND QUALITY OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS CELL PHONES PAGERS 0$!S AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
7E ARE AT A CROSSROADS IN OUR LIFE AS AN AGENCY "Y WITH ALL THE OTHER DEMANDS ON THE FEDERAL BUDGET
RETHINKING OUR ROLE AND FOCUSING ON THE NEEDS OF OUR FEDERAL FUNDING FOR EDUCATION WAS STEADILY DECLINING
CUSTOMERS WE CAN IMPROVE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR ALL ANYWAY )N THE END STATES REGAINED CONTROL IN PART
OF THE CHILDREN OF 3ANDIA AS WELL AS SECURE THE FUTURE BECAUSE THE FEDS DIDNT HAVE THE MONEY TO STAY IN THE
OF 3$% )F WE DONT SUCCEED IN CLEARLY IDENTIFYING OUR GAME )N SOME CASES AS A PRACTICAL AND FACE
SAVING
GOALS AND WAYS TO ACHIEVE THEM IN THE COMING YEARS MEASURE THE FEDS AGREED TO hALLOWv STATE REGULATIONS TO
WE RUN THE RISK OF BECOMING AT BEST AN ANACHRONISM ASSUME PRIMACY AS LONG AS ON PAPER THEY WERE EQUAL TO
AND AT WORST A FOOTNOTE IN HISTORY 7E NEED TO FOCUS OR MORE STRINGENT THAN THEIR FEDERAL COUNTERPARTS )N
OUR ATTENTION SQUARELY ON THE BUSINESS OF THE DAY OTHER CASES STATES SIMPLY ELECTED TO WALK AWAY FROM
) WILL BEGIN BY RECOUNTING EVENTS OVER THE PAST TEN FEDERAL FUNDING RATHER THAN COMPLY WITH THE MANY
YEARS THAT HAVE BROUGHT US TO OUR SITUATION TODAY 4HIS REQUIREMENTS THAT ACCOMPANIED IT
IS MORE THAN STORYTELLING SO BEAR WITH ME AS ) REVISIT 4HE DEVOLUTION OF AUTHORITY FOR MANY PROGRAMS
EVENTS THAT YOU MIGHT REMEMBER ONLY TOO WELL 9OU SEE BACK TO THE STATES WAS A DOUBLE
EDGED SWORD 3TATES
) BELIEVE THAT BY UNDERSTANDING OUR PAST WE CAN BETTER INCLUDING 3ANDIA DID REGAIN SOME AUTHORITY AND
PLAN OUR FUTURE AUTONOMY "UT AT THE SAME TIME YOUTH CRIME AND
,ETS BEGIN IN THE YEAR THE .O #HILD ,EFT DELINQUENCY RATES WENT UP AS FEDERAL FUNDING FOR LAW
"EHIND !CT CALLED .#," FOR SHORT WENT INTO EFFECT ENFORCEMENT AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVELS WAS CUT "Y
4O SOME .#," WAS THE SINGLE LARGEST INTRUSION ON THE SAME TOKEN AS THE FEDS RETURNED MORE AND MORE
LOCAL CONTROL EVER PERPETRATED ON PUBLIC EDUCATION BY RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY TO THE STATES -EDICAID
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 4O OTHERS IT WAS A DEMONSTRA
COVERAGE FOR CHILDREN DECREASED RESULTING IN INCREASING
TION OF STRONG COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION FROM THE RATES OF CHILDHOOD INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND OTHER PREVI
HIGHEST LEVELS OF OUR GOVERNMENT 7E ARE NOT HERE OUSLY PREVENTABLE ILLNESSES
TO DEBATE WHICH VIEW WAS RIGHT BUT TO DEAL WITH THE )NCREASED OUTSOURCING IN MAJOR ECONOMIC SECTORS
OUTCOMES OF THIS LEGISLATION AND THE IMPACT IT HAS HAD PUT DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON SALARIES AND BENElTS AND
ON OUR STATE #OINCIDENTALLY .#," CAME INTO EFFECT CAUSED SIGNIlCANT UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOME INDUSTRIES
AT THE SAME TIME THAT OUR COUNTRY EMBARKED UPON A 3TATE TAXES WENT UP TO REPLACE DECLINING FEDERAL DOLLARS
HUGE AND COSTLY NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE PROGRAM BUT WITH THOSE DOLLARS GOING OUT OF OUR PAYCHECKS WE
INCLUDING FOREIGN INCURSIONS IN )RAQ AND !FGHANISTAN ALL HAD LESS TO SPEND 3ALES TAX REVENUES WENT DOWN
AND LATER )RAN AND .ORTH +OREA !S YOU WILL RECALL AS A RESULT AND OTHER TAXES WERE INCREASED TO MAKE UP
THE DOLLARS OUR NATION SPENT ON THESE WARS WERE NEARLY FOR THE LOWER SALES TAX REVENUES !ND ) DONT HAVE TO
MATCHED BY THE COST OF SECURITY MEASURES AT HOME 7E TELL YOU THAT HIGHER PROPERTY TAXES MADE HOUSING LESS
ALSO WATCHED AS OIL PRICES SAPPED DOLLARS OUT OF THE AFFORDABLE DO ) 7EVE SEEN FAMILIES MOVING IN TO
ECONOMY AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PENSION FUNDS MELTED GETHER TO REDUCE EXPENSES )N SOME CASES HOMEOWNERS
AWAY 4HE PENSION DEBACLE THROUGHOUT THE AIRLINE HAVE RESORTED TO THE TIME
HONORED PRACTICE OF TAKING IN
INDUSTRY THAT ERUPTED IN WHEN 5NITED !IRLINES BOARDERS
WAS DESPERATELY TRYING TO STAY IN BUSINESS WAS ONLY THE !S THESE EVENTS HAVE PLAYED OUT WEVE SEEN A
BEGINNING 3OMETHING HAD TO GIVE 7HAT GAVE AS YOU STEADY DECLINE IN THE SIZE AND INmUENCE OF OUR OWN
ALL KNOW WAS FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION AGENCY 7ITHOUT FEDERAL DOLLARS TO DISTRIBUTE MANAGE
)N 3ANDIA WAS AMONG THE STATES THAT lRST AND MONITOR OUR IMPORTANCE TO LOCAL EDUCATION AGEN
REVOLTED AGAINST THE UNFUNDED MANDATES OF .#," CIES HAS DECLINED "ECAUSE WE CANT PROVIDE RESOURCES
5TAH LED THE REVOLT BY PASSING LEGISLATION THAT PUT TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS WE DID BEFORE THEY NO LONGER
STATE EDUCATION REGULATION ABOVE FEDERAL LAW AND THE THINK OF US AS A RESOURCE WHEN A NEW NEED ARISES 7ITH
REST OF US FOLLOWED ATTEMPTING TO RESTORE THE CONCEPT THE LOSS OF STATE AND FEDERAL REVENUES WEVE HAD TO CUT
OF FEDERALISM TO OUR WAY OF GOVERNING ! lGHT ENSUED STAFF AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL WE ARE NOW AT LESS THAN A
OVER WHETHER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COULD WITHHOLD THIRD OF OUR SIZE IN ,ET ME STOP HERE TO ACKNOWL
FUNDING FROM DISSENTING STATES "UT HERE WAS THE RUB EDGE THAT THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE LEFT HAVE DONE YEOMANS
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
DUTY AT SERVING OUR STATES CHILDREN AND THEIR SCHOOLS ) !BUNDANT
AM IN AWE OF YOUR COMMITMENT AND ) AM COMMITTED
TO LEAVING NO STONE UNTURNED AS WE SEEK OUT WAYS TO
REVIVE OUR AGENCY TO MEET OUR MISSION OF PROVIDING
QUALITY EDUCATION TO ALL THE CHILDREN OF THIS GREAT STATE
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
)VE PAINTED A PRETTY BLEAK PICTURE OF THESE SHIFTING
2ESOURCES
FEDERAL PRIORITIES BUT NOT ALL OF THE EVENTS OF THE PAST
TEN YEARS CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE FEDERAL FALLOUT 4HE h(ARD 4IMESv
VERY NATURE OF OUR POPULATION HAS SERVED UP ITS OWN SET
OF CHALLENGES ,IKE A SET OF BOOK ENDS TRENDS IN BOTH
3CARCE
OUR YOUNG AND OLD POPULATIONS HAVE PUT THE SQUEEZE ON
OUR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
&OR EXAMPLE THERE ARE THE ELDERLY 4HINK ABOUT IT
"EGINNING IN NEARLY MILLION BABY BOOMERS
7HERE ARE OUR CHILDREN 4O ANSWER THIS LOOK BACK
BEGAN TURNING -ANY HAD ALREADY LEFT THE WORKFORCE
TO WHEN A POPULAR BACKLASH AGAINST LAX ENFORCE
THROUGH EARLY RETIREMENTS &ORTUNATELY A GOOD SHARE
MENT BY THE )MMIGRATION AND #USTOMS %NFORCEMENT
HAS STAYED IN THE WORKFORCE CONTINUING TO CONTRIB
AGENCY REDUCED THE NUMBER OF BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL
UTE TO 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE AND PUTTING OFF
IMMIGRANTS 4HE -INUTE -EN CIVILIAN BORDER PATROL
COLLECTING BENElTS "OOMERS MY GENERATION INCIDEN
WAS JUST THE OPENING SALVO IN MANY VIGILANTE EFFORTS
TALLY WERE THE SINGLE LARGEST GENERATION IN OUR HISTORY
TO TURN BACK ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "ECAUSE OF THIS OUR
4HROUGH OUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO TAX REVENUES THE FEDERAL
SCHOOL
AGE POPULATION HAS DECLINED AND BECOME MUCH
GOVERNMENT WAS ABLE TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT MAJOR
LESS DIVERSE IN TERMS OF CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS WHO FOR
3ERVING THE NEEDS OF THE CHILDREN WE DO HAVE HAS
A VARIETY OF REASONS REQUIRED ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL
BECOME MORE DIFlCULT EACH YEAR 7E HAVE LONG BEEN
SERVICES 4ITLE ) ASSISTED GENERATIONS OF LOW
INCOME
AWARE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT ACHIEVE
STUDENTS BY PROVIDING ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO THEIR
MENT AND POVERTY BUT WE STILL STRUGGLE WITH THE
SCHOOLS 4HE )NDIVIDUALS WITH $ISABILITIES %DUCA
PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY LINE
TION !CT WAS A TREMENDOUS SOURCE OF HELP FOR STUDENTS
MANY OF WHOM LIVE IN HOUSEHOLDS HEADED BY A SINGLE
WITH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HANDICAPS AND AN ESSENTIAL
MOTHER 7HEN -EDICAID FUNDING WAS CUT PRENATAL AND
SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR THE SCHOOLS WORKING HARD TO MEET
WELL BABY CARE WAS LESS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE MOTHERS AND
THE NEEDS OF THESE SPECIAL STUDENTS .OW THAT A HUGE
CHILDREN WHO NEEDED IT MOST !S A RESULT MORE CHIL
PORTION OF OUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLAR IS DEVOTED TO SUP
DREN COME TO SCHOOL THESE DAYS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS $E
PORTING RETIREES AND PROVIDING FOR THEIR MEDICAL CARE
CLINES IN IMMUNIZATION RATES HAVE RESULTED IN EPIDEM
THERE ARE FAR FEWER DOLLARS AVAILABLE FOR OTHER THINGS
ICS OF MEASLES MUMPS AND WHOOPING COUGH 3CARLET
4HE STATES HAVE BEEN LEFT HOLDING THE BAG IN TERMS OF
FEVER IS AGAIN ON THE RISE 7E FEAR THE DAY THE lRST CASE
SERVING ITS YOUNGER CITIZENS
OF SMALLPOX IS DIAGNOSED
(ERE IN 3ANDIA WE HAVE AN EVEN GREATER PROBLEM
4HERE IS NO DENYING THAT THE GROWING GAP BETWEEN
-ANY RETIREES ARE MOVING TO OUR STATE TO TAKE ADVAN
THE HAVES AND THE HAVE
NOTS REVEALS ITSELF IN THE FACES
TAGE OF THE WONDERFUL CLIMATE AND LOW STATE TAXES 4HE
OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS !S PUBLIC EDUCATION
CENSUS CONlRMED THIS SHIFT IN OUR POPULATION )N
BECOMES MORE STARVED FOR RESOURCES PARENTS WHO
THE NEXT ELECTION IT WILL BE A HARD SELL TO CONVINCE
CAN AFFORD IT ARE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO PRIVATE OR
THESE PEOPLE TO PART WITH MORE OF THEIR lXED INCOMES
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS 7HEN 3ANDIA PASSED ITS SCHOOL
TO PAY FOR SCHOOL BOND ISSUES !T THE SAME TIME THAT
CHOICE LEGISLATION IN IT OPENED THE DOOR FOR AN
THE ELDERLY ARE MOVING TO 3ANDIA YOUNG PEOPLE ARE
EXODUS OF STUDENTS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS .OT ONLY DID
LEAVING THE STATE LOOKING FOR BETTER JOBS AND NEW OP
THIS FURTHER REDUCE THE lNANCIAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE
PORTUNITIES
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS IT TYPICALLY LEFT PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH ENCE COMMITMENT TO THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND
HIGHER PERCENTAGES OF HARD TO SERVE STUDENTS !S STATE COMMITMENT TO THE IDEA OF PUBLIC SERVICE !ND JOY IN
RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HIGHER EDUCATION HAVE DECLINED SEEING THE DAWN OF UNDERSTANDING IN A CHILDS EYES THE
TUITION AT OUR STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES HAS GONE EXCITEMENT OF A CHEMISTRY PROJECT GONE INCREDIBLY RIGHT
UP MAKING HIGHER EDUCATION LESS ACCESSIBLE TO MANY OF AND THE SATISFACTION OF HAVING A FORMER STUDENT GIVE
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE !GAIN ) DONT NEED TO REMIND YOU CREDIT TO A TEACHER FOR HELPING HIM OR HER lND DIREC
OF THE STATISTICS ABOUT EARNING POWER AS THEY RELATE TO A TION IN LIFE !ND YET DESPITE THE REWARDS OF TEACHING
POST SECONDARY EDUCATION FOR SOME THE RISING COSTS OF OBTAINING THE CERTIlCATE
7EALTHIER FAMILIES ARE NOT THE ONLY hREFUGEESv FROM AND THE LOW PROJECTED LIFETIME EARNINGS OF THE JOB ARE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS %VEN LOW INCOME PARENTS ALREADY FRUS FORCING THEM TO PURSUE MORE LUCRATIVE CAREERS !S MORE
TRATED BY LOW TEST SCORES ALSO NOW WORRY ABOUT SCHOOL AND MORE BABY BOOMERS HEAD INTO RETIREMENT THE DIF
SAFETYn PARTICULARLY AFTER THE SO CALLED #OLUMBINE )) lCULTY OF REPLACING THEM LOOMS LARGE
MASSACRE IN 4ENNESSEE !S A RESULT MANY HAVE TURNED /F COURSE ATTRACTING AND KEEPING THE BEST AND
TO HOME SCHOOLING PAROCHIAL OR OTHER PRIVATE SCHOOLS BRIGHTEST IN THE TEACHING WORKFORCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN
4HIS IS WHY WE MUST RETHINK OUR MISSION AND ROLE #AN ONE OF 3ANDIAS BIGGEST CHALLENGES 7HEN THE STATE LEG
WE MAINTAIN OUR MISSION OF IMPROVING LEARNING FOR ALL ISLATURE PASSED THE TUITION FORGIVENESS PROGRAM IN
CHILDREN IN 3ANDIA AND STILL SUPPORT THE PUBLIC EDUCA IT WENT A LONG WAY TOWARD ENCOURAGING YOUNG BRIGHT
TION SYSTEM ) KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN ME AS A TECHNOLOGY SAVVY TEACHERS TO STAY IN OUR RURAL AND
BABY BOOM DINOSAUR AS ) HAVE CONSISTENTLY WORKED ECONOMICALLY DEPRESSED URBAN SCHOOLS BUT UNLESS WE
TO UPHOLD OUR TRADITIONAL SYSTEM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION CAN DO MORE TO IMPROVE THEIR SALARIES ) BELIEVE EVEN
"ELIEVE IT OR NOT ) NOW BELIEVE THAT OUR FUTURE AS A THAT SIGNIlCANT BREAK ON TUITION WILL NOT BE SUFlCIENT
STATE AGENCY AND OUR ONLY HOPE OF MEETING OUR MISSION INCENTIVE FOR MANY YOUNG PEOPLE TO GO INTO TEACHING IN
LIES IN MEETING OUR OBLIGATION TO OUR CHILDREN REGARD THE FUTURE
LESS OF WHERE THEY ATTEND SCHOOL )TS TRUE THAT )VE BEEN DESCRIBING A LANDSCAPE AS
) CAN SEE SOME OF YOU THINKING WELL WELL MAYBE BLEAK AND DARK AS A $ICKENS NOVEL SO LET ME POINT TO
AN OLD DOG CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS 7ELL THE IMPACT OF SOME BRIGHT SPOTS /N THE PLUS SIDE MORE AND MORE
ALL OF THESE CHANGES ON 3ANDIAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS PRETTY SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS ARE CREATIVELY SOLVING SOME OF
OBVIOUS EVEN FOR AN IDEALIST LIKE ME &IRST OUR DECLIN THEIR PROBLEMS BY BANDING TOGETHER TO SHARE SERVICES
ING ENROLLMENT HAS REQUIRED US TO REDUCE OUR TEACHER AND THUS REDUCE EXPENSES
WORKFORCE RESULTING IN LARGER CLASS SIZES FOR MANY )N ADDITION THROUGHOUT THE STATE SMALL BUSINESS
CHILDREN 3ECONDLY EVEN THOUGH TECHNOLOGY CONTINUES HAS BLOSSOMED DUE IN PART SOME SAY TO DECREASED
TO IMPROVE IN QUALITY SOPHISTICATION AND AFFORDABIL FEDERAL REGULATION AND THE FACT THAT MANY LARGE COR
ITY PRESSURES ON BUDGETS HAVE LIMITED THE ABILITY OF PORATIONS HAVE MOVED THEIR OPERATIONS OFFSHORE FOR
SCHOOLS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TECHNOLOGY AS A MEANS OF LOWER LABOR COSTS 3MALL BUSINESS OWNERS AWARE OF THE
ENRICHING INSTRUCTION AND CREATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES NEED FOR VIBRANT LOCAL ECONOMIES TO SUSTAIN THEM ARE
FOR STUDENTS 4HIRD BECAUSE ELDERLY VOTERS ARE RELUCTANT FAR MORE WILLING THAN BEFORE TO SUPPORT THEIR PUBLIC
TO PASS BOND ISSUES FOR SCHOOL FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT SCHOOLS IF NOT WITH CASH AT LEAST WITH TIME AS MORE
BUILDINGS ARE DETERIORATING AND MORE COMPANIES ARE PROVIDING PAID LEAVE FOR
4HROUGHOUT MY LONG CAREER IN THIS INDUSTRY ) HAVE PARENTS WHO VOLUNTEER IN THE SCHOOLS
ALWAYS VIEWED OUR TEACHER AND ADMINISTRATOR WORK &OLLOWING THE LOSS OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR +n EDUCA
FORCES AS THE SAVING GRACES FOR THE SYSTEM %VEN IN HARD TION MANY OF THE BURDENSOME FEDERAL REGULATIONS THAT
TIMES HIGH QUALITY PEOPLE CONTINUE TO JOIN THE PROFES COMPLICATED OUR JOBS SAPPED RESOURCES AND STImED
SION AND WE KNOW ITS NOT THE SALARY FRINGE BENElTS OR CREATIVITY ALSO FELL AWAY 7ITH FEWER AND LESS BURDEN
OTHER PERKS THAT COME WITH A CAREER IN EDUCATION THAT SOME REGULATIONS WE ARE IN A BETTER POSITION TO TAP THE
ATTRACTS THEM .O IT IS COMMITMENT COMMITMENT CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN OUR OWN COMMUNITIES
TO THE BELIEF THAT AS TEACHERS THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFER 2ESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT HIGH QUALITY ELEMENTARY
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
AND SECONDARY EDUCATION RESULTS IN HIGHER LIFETIME !BUNDANT
INCOMES LOWER CRIME RATES AND A HIGHER QUALITY OF
LIFE 2ESEARCH ALSO SHOWS THAT NOT ALL PROGRAMS PRODUCE
POSITIVE RESULTS PROGRAM QUALITY IS KEY )N THE
ABSENCE OF FEDERAL OVERSIGHT OF OUR PROGRAMS IT IS UP TO
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
US TO GUARANTEE THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATION EXPERIENC
2ESOURCES
ES WE PROVIDE TO OUR CHILDREN IT IS UP TO US TO ADVOCATE
FOR ACADEMIC RIGOR IT IS UP TO US TO ENSURE THAT OUR h(ARD 4IMESv
NEEDY AND MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED STUDENTS
GET THE SUPPORT AND SERVICES THEY NEED TO REACH THEIR
3CARCE
POTENTIAL
3O WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS IN OUR ROLE AS AN AGENCY
7E CAN CONTINUE BUSINESS AS USUAL OR WE CAN SEIZE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO RESHAPE OURSELVES AND OUR PROGRAM
EDUCATION IS LESS AFFORDABLE AS TAX SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE 7E CAN BECOME AN AGENCY THAT
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES HAS DECLINED
FOCUSES EFFECTIVELY ON IMPROVING ALL SCHOOLS BY ENHANC
4EACHERS COULD BE IN SHORT SUPPLY DUE TO THE
ING TEACHER QUALITY ENSURING QUALITY PROGRAMS ENGAG
EXPENSE OF OBTAINING THE NECESSARY EDUCATION AS WELL AS
ING LOCAL BUSINESS COMMUNITIES IN EFFORTS TO SUPPORT
THE LOW SALARIES OFFERED EVEN EXPERIENCED TEACHERS 4O
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND LEVERAGING INNOVATIVE TECHNOL
MITIGATE PRESSURES ON FUNDING THERE WILL BE A GREATER
OGY TO IMPROVE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL 7EVE
NEED FOR SERVICE INTEGRATION ACROSS HUMAN SERVICE
GOT A LOT OF WORK AHEAD OF US SO LETS GET STARTED
HEALTH AND EDUCATION AGENCIES 3OME LOCAL ECONO
MIES COULD BE HEALTHIER IN COMPARISON TO THE NATIONAL
!NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO ECONOMY OFFERING SOME AVENUES FOR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
FOR THOSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
)MPLICATIONS
)N THE WORLD DESCRIBED IN THIS SCENARIO STATES HAVE
MORE FREEDOM FROM FEDERAL REGULATION BUT DO NOT HAVE
A WEALTH OF RESOURCES WITH WHICH TO EXERCISE THIS NEW
AUTHORITY 3TATE AGENCIES IF THEY HAVE A ROLE AT ALL MAY
BECOME BY DEFAULT THE GUARANTORS OF QUALITY IN EDUCA
TION
4HE 3%! HAS EXPERIENCED SUBSTANTIAL CUTS IN STAFF
DUE TO REDUCED REVENUES !T THE SCHOOL LEVEL A WEALTH
OF SOCIAL ILLS ARE IMPACTING EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN
CLUDING INCREASES IN CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES MORE LATCHKEY
CHILDREN AND FEWER HOME RESOURCES FOR PURCHASING
SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND OTHER NECESSITIES *UVENILE CRIME
RATES AND DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS IN SCHOOL ARE LIKELY ON
THE RISE 4HERE ARE FEWER CHILDREN IN GENERAL BECAUSE
OF SMALLER IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS WHICH WERE FORMERLY
RESPONSIBLE FOR HIGHER BIRTH RATES 0ARENTS ARE LOSING
CONlDENCE IN THE QUALITY AND SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC
EDUCATION SYSTEM AS DEMONSTRATED BY INCREASING
NUMBERS OF STUDENTS MOVING TO PRIVATE PAROCHIAL AND
HOME SCHOOLS "ECAUSE OF STATE BUDGET PRESSURES HIGHER
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
)NDICATORS /PTIONS
%VENTS AND TRENDS THAT COULD SIGNAL THE DEVELOP
0UBLIC SCHOOLS IN GENERAL WILL STRUGGLE WITH LIMITED
MENT OF THIS SCENARIO INCLUDE RESOURCES AND GREATER PERCENTAGES OF HIGH
NEEDS
STUDENTS &OR 3%!S TO CONTINUE TO BE RELEVANT AND
s 3TATES PREVAIL IN GAINING mEXIBILITY IN .#," RE
EFFECTIVE THEY MUST BECOME ADEPT AT COORDINATING AND
QUIREMENTS CAUSING FEDERAL OVERSIGHT FOR ACCOUNT
INTEGRATING RESOURCES ACROSS THEIR OWN PROGRAMS 4HEY
ABILITY TO DECLINE WILL ALSO NEED TO REACH OUT TO OTHER HUMAN SERVICE
s 3TATES LOOSEN THEIR OWN REGULATORY CONTROL OVER HEALTH AND EDUCATION AGENCIES IN ORDER TO LEVERAGE
PUBLIC EDUCATION LIMITED RESOURCES AND MEET THE NEEDS OF THE LARGE POPU
LATIONS OF HIGH
NEEDS STUDENTS #ONTINUED ADVOCACY
s 4HERE IS CONTINUED DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON FEDERAL AND ENGAGEMENT WITH STATE LEGISLATURES COULD RESULT IN
EDUCATION FUNDING DUE TO COMPETING PRIORITIES A GREATER COMMITMENT TO SUPPORT EDUCATION FROM THE
ANDOR LOWER REVENUES STATE LEVEL ,OOKING BEYOND STATE BORDERS FOR OPPORTU
NITIES TO WORK WITH OTHER 3%!S COULD RESULT IN COOPERA
s 3%! REVENUES DECREASE AND STAFF LAYOFFS INCREASE
TIVE AGREEMENTS FOR SHARING SERVICES !T THE SAME TIME
s 7ELFARE AND -EDICAID SPENDING DECLINES IN THE LOCAL BUSINESSES COULD BE A SOURCE OF ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
FACE OF INCREASING NEED SO 3%!S MUST CONNECT WITH THOSE COMMUNITIES AND
COMMUNICATE KEY MESSAGES ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF
s 0UBLIC HEALTH INDICATORS SLIDE GOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
s 4HE CHILD POVERTY RATE INCREASES )N ORDER TO REGAIN hMARKET SHAREv AND TO MAIN
TAIN QUALITY 3%!S AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS MUST IDENTIFY
s #RIME RATES INCREASE ESPECIALLY JUVENILE CRIME THE MOST EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
AND IMPLEMENT THEM )T WILL BE VITAL FOR THE 3%! TO
s 0ROPONENTS OF LIMITED IMMIGRATION PREVAIL n RULES
CHOOSE A FEW KEY PRIORITIES AND FOCUS ON THEM RATHER
AND ENFORCEMENT TIGHTEN
THAN ATTEMPT TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING "ECAUSE
s 4HE OVERALL BIRTHRATE DECLINES 3%! STAFF COMPLEMENTS WILL BE DECLINING IT WILL BE
IMPORTANT TO DEVELOP PLANS FOR KEEPING THE BEST STAFF
s #ONSUMERS OF EDUCATION SERVICES BEGIN TO SELECT ON BOARD "ECAUSE OF ANTICIPATED SHORTAGES OF NEW
PRIVATE PROVIDERS AT A GREATER RATE TEACHERS 3%!S WILL NEED TO HELP DISTRICTS DEVELOP
STRATEGIES FOR ATTRACTING AND KEEPING GOOD TEACHERS 4O
s $ISTRICTS REPORT GREATER DIFlCULTY IN RECRUITING
ADDRESS DECLINES IN NEW TEACHERS THE 3%! WILL NEED TO
TEACHERS
WORK WITH HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE STATE LEGISLATURE
s 'OVERNMENT DEREGULATION OF MAJOR BUSINESS TO DEVELOP WAYS OF MAINTAINING AFFORDABILITY IN TEACHER
SECTORS RESULTS IN RAPID GROWTH OF LOCAL SMALL PREPARATION PROGRAMS INCLUDING POSSIBLY SCHOOL LOAN
BUSINESSES FORGIVENESS AND SUBSIDIZED EDUCATION IN EXCHANGE FOR
REQUIRED SERVICE IN INNER CITY OR RURAL COMMUNITIES
3TATES COULD ALSO CONSIDER WAYS TO ENTICE RETIRED BABY
BOOMERS BACK INTO THE TEACHING WORKFORCE
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY !BUNDANT
3CENARIO h2AINING -ONEY
AND 2ULESv
$EEP #AUSES
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT GOVERNMENT lNANCIAL
SUPPORT FOR +n EDUCATION IS ABUNDANT AS ARE THE
2ESOURCES
REGULATIONS ATTACHED TO THE AWARDING AND DISTRIBUTION
OF THESE RESOURCES BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 3TATE DE
PARTMENT OF EDUCATION STAFF ARE FACED WITH THE COMPLEX
TASK OF ADMINISTERING THE WIDE RANGE OF RESOURCES ALLOT
3CARCE
TED TO THEM AND MAINTAINING COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL
REGULATIONS ATTACHED TO THOSE RESOURCES WHILE ENSURING
THAT THE BULK OF THE FUNDS PROVIDE DIRECT SERVICES AND
PHYSICAL RESOURCES TO SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS 4HE TASK h2AINING -ONEY AND 2ULESv
FACING 3%! MANAGERS IS TO MANAGE THE mOW OF STATE
4IME
AND FEDERAL REVENUES AND REGULATIONS AS EFlCIENTLY AS
POSSIBLE 0LACE 4HE VIRTUAL MEETING ROOM OF 3ANDIAS 3TATE
$EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION 3$%
4HE FOLLOWING DEEP CAUSES COULD LEAD TO THIS SCENARIO
3CENE $R !NDREA #OREY IS BRIElNG NEW 3$% STAFF
s 0EACE IN THE -IDDLE %AST RESULTS IN REDUCED
ON THE DEPARTMENTS ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES -OST
PRESSURE ON THE FEDERAL BUDGET AND LOWER OIL
OF THE ASSEMBLED STAFF MEMBERS ARE SITTING IN VIRTUAL
PRICES THUS FREEING UP FUNDS FOR OTHER PURPOSES
MEETING ROOMS AT REGIONAL hHUBSv CREATED BY 3$% TO
s "REAKTHROUGHS IN SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY REDUCE MOVE STAFF AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE CONSTITUENTS THEY
HOMELAND DEFENSE EXPENDITURES WHILE INCREASING SERVE
BORDER SECURITY
7ELCOME TO 3ANDIA 3TATE $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION
s 2EALISTIC PLANS FOR SAVING 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND
!S PART OF YOUR NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION WE WILL MEET
-EDICARE ARE IN PLACE
THIS WAY ONCE A MONTH FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS IN ORDER
s 53 INmUENCE AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE BEST INDUCTION EXPERIENCE
REVITALIZED LEADING TO A RENEWAL OF NATIONAL PRIDE POSSIBLE 9OU ARE A SELECT GROUP ) KNOW YOU ALL HAD
AND CONlDENCE OTHER CHOICES ABOUT WHERE TO WORK )M GLAD YOU CHOSE
3$% AND ) INTEND TO DO EVERYTHING ) CAN TO MAKE YOUR
s 4HE 'UEST 7ORKER PROGRAM INCREASES TENURE HERE PRODUCTIVE AND REWARDING 7E DO IMPOR
IMMIGRATION FROM THE SOUTH AND CHANGES HOW TANT WORK HERE AND YOU NOW HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
IMMIGRANT CHILDREN ARE SERVED BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONTRIBUTE TO IT
7ERE USING 3$%S NEW VIRTUAL MEETING ROOMS AS
s )NCREASED INCOME ALLOWS MORE PARENTS TO SEND
A WAY TO COME TOGETHER WHILE BEING MINDFUL OF THE
THEIR CHILDREN TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS FORCING THE
TIME AND MONEY IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN TO BRING YOU ALL
PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO BECOME BETTER IN ORDER TO
TOGETHER PHYSICALLY 7E HOPE THAT OUR VIRTUAL MEETING
MAINTAIN MARKET SHARE
ROOMS WILL INCREASE OUR PRODUCTIVITY AND REDUCE THE
s )NCREASED QUALITY AND CHOICE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION TRAVEL WEAR AND TEAR ON OUR STAFF !ND FOR THOSE OF YOU
RESULTS IN INCREASED PUBLIC TRUST IN THE SYSTEM WHO WANTED TO WORK FOR 3$% BUT DID NOT WANT TO MOVE
TO 0ORTALES VIRTUAL MEETINGS HAVE BEEN A WIN
WIN FOR
YOU AND THE AGENCY !S h'EN
8ERSv AND h-ILLENNIALSv
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
YOU ALL GREW UP WITH THIS STUFF AND PROBABLY FEEL RIGHT AT CATION LIKE 3$% TO THE LOCAL LEVEL !S THOSE PROGRAMS
HOME !S A TRAILING MEMBER OF THE hBOOMERv GENERA
GREW AND BECAME MORE COMPLEX OUR JOB MANAGING THE
TION ITS STILL A LITTLE INTIMIDATING FOR ME ) HOPE YOU mOW OF MONEY AND THE REGULATIONS ATTACHED TO THOSE
WILL BEAR WITH ME IF ) PUSH THE WRONG BUTTON FROM TIME FUNDS INCREASED IN SIZE AND COMPLEXITY
TO TIME $URING THE EARLY PART OF THE ST CENTURY PUBLIC
!LL OF YOU HAVE BEEN HIRED BY 3$% WITHIN THE PAST EDUCATION WENT THROUGH A ROUGH PATCH WITH REGARD TO
MONTH AND ARE JOINING OTHER STAFF HIRED OVER THE PAST FEDERAL FUNDING 4HERE WAS A WAR SEVERAL IN FACT AND
COUPLE OF YEARS WHEN WE BEGAN RAMPING UP OUR RECRUIT
HOMELAND SECURITY DRAINED THE FEDERAL TREASURY &EDERAL
ING EFFORTS 3OME OF YOU WILL BE IN THE lELD WORKING DI
FUNDING FOR EDUCATION DECLINED IN THE FACE OF RISING
RECTLY WITH TEACHERS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS /THERS COSTS /UR AGENCY WENT THROUGH A PERIOD OF RETRENCH
WILL BE BEHIND THE SCENES IN MANAGEMENT RESEARCH MENT DUE TO DECLINING REVENUES FROM FEDERAL PROGRAMS
OR ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL POSITIONS !S ) HOPE /UR JOBS WERE GREATLY COMPLICATED BY THE RE
EN
YOULL AGREE WE OFFER A CHALLENGING STIMULATING WORK ACTMENT OF %3%! NAMED THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND
ENVIRONMENT EXCELLENT BENElTS AND THE OPPORTUNITY !CT OF 4HROUGH THIS ACT FEDERAL CONTROL OF +n
FOR YOU TO APPLY YOUR EXPERTISE IN PURSUIT OF A PERSON
EDUCATION WAS INCREASED THROUGH A GREATER EMPHASIS
ALLY MEANINGFUL MISSION ON ACCOUNTABILITY TESTING AND TEACHER QUALITY 4HESE
0LEASE INDULGE A FORMER HISTORY TEACHER AS ) RECAP REQUIREMENTS WERE ATTACHED TO THE EVER DECREASING mOW
THE SIGNIlCANT EVENTS IN OUR HISTORY THAT HAVE BROUGHT OF DOLLARS THROUGH %3%! 7E HAD FEWER DOLLARS WITH
OUR AGENCY TO WHERE IT IS TODAY ) HOPE THROUGH SHARING WHICH TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED LEVEL OF REGULATORY OVER
THIS HISTORY THAT YOU WILL HAVE A GREATER UNDERSTANDING SIGHT MONITORING AND REPORTING )T WAS NOT A HAPPY
AND APPRECIATION FOR THE ORGANIZATION YOUVE JOINED TIME FOR 3$%
AND THE WORK WE DO !S YOU BUILD YOUR UNDERSTANDING 4HREE THINGS HAPPENED THAT TURNED THE TIDE ONE
OF THE INmUENCES THAT HAVE SHAPED OUR AGENCY AND ITS FAIRLY OBVIOUS IN ITS IMPACT AND THE OTHERS NOT SO
WORK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO THINK MORE STRATEGICALLY ABOUT OBVIOUS &IRST OF ALL AS WE ALL KNOW NOW THE PRE
YOUR OWN WORK AND HOW IT FURTHERS THE MISSION OF 3$% EMPTIVE WAR DOCTRINE OF 0RESIDENT 'EORGE 7 "USH
/UR AGENCY WAS lRST ESTABLISHED EARLY IN THE TH lRST EMPLOYED IN THE OVERTHROW OF 3ADDAM (USSEIN
CENTURY TO ASSIST THE 3ANDIA STATE GOVERNMENT MEET ITS IN )RAQ LED TO DRAMATIC CHANGES IN THE PREVIOUSLY
EDUCATION OBLIGATIONS TO THE CHILDREN OF OUR STATE 7E DESPOTIC STATES OF THE -IDDLE %AST 3INCE DEMO
BEGAN SMALL MAINLY FOCUSED ON GRANTING TEACHER LI
CRATIC ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN HELD IN A NUMBER OF FORMER
CENSES !S THE YEARS WENT BY AND THE STRUCTURE OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL HOT SPOTS !S THE NEW DEMOCRACIES HAVE
EDUCATION BECAME MORE COMPLEX WE GREW IN SIZE ASSUMED MORE AND MORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN
THOUGH NOT NECESSARILY IN INmUENCE $URING THE AD
SECURITY THE 53 HAS BEEN ABLE TO BRING OUR TROOPS
MINISTRATION OF 0RESIDENT ,YNDON "AINES *OHNSON WE HOME AND REDUCE OUR lNANCIAL EXPENDITURES IN THAT
SAW THE lRST %LEMENTARY AND 3ECONDARY %DUCATION !CT PART OF THE WORLD 3OME OF YOU MAY NOT BE OLD ENOUGH
KNOWN AS %3%! 4HE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THIS LANDMARK TO REMEMBER OUR WORLD BEFORE THE FORMATION OF A STABLE
LEGISLATION WAS TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR PEACEFUL 0ALESTINIAN STATE BUT UNTIL 0,/ #HAIRMAN
ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS 9ASSER !RAFATS DEATH CHANCES FOR SOVEREIGNTY FOR 0AL
)N EDUCATION FOR hHANDICAPPEDv CHILDREN WAS ESTINIANS WAS GRIM 7ITH !RAFATS PASSING FOLLOWED BY
AUTHORIZED SEPARATELY THROUGH THE %DUCATION OF THE !RIEL 3HARONS DEATH )SRAELIS AND 0ALESTINIANS FORGED A
(ANDICAPPED !CT LATER RENAMED THE )NDIVIDUALS WITH NEW PACT FOCUSED ON SAFETY FOR ALL
$ISABILITIES %DUCATION !CT OR )$%! )T WAS THROUGH 0RESIDENT "USHS NAMING AN AMBASSADOR TO THE
THESE TWO LAWS UPDATED AND AMENDED OVER THE YEARS 5NITED .ATIONS WHO WAS KNOWN FOR HIS CRITICISM
THAT THE MAJORITY OF FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR +n EDUCATION OF 5. POLICIES AND PRACTICES RESULTED INITIALLY IN A
CAME ABOUT )N THE INTERVENING YEARS THE FUNDING FOR GREATER BREACH IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 53
THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS AUTHORIZED UNDER THESE LAWS FOR AND THE 5. 3OME OF US BABY BOOMERS WERE VERY CON
THE MOST PART PASSED THROUGH STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDU
CERNED OVER THE NOMINATION BECAUSE WE DIDNT LIKE THE
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
UNILATERALISM IMPOSED BY THE 53 IN ITS DEALINGS WITH !BUNDANT
THE 5. (OWEVER WHEN THE 53 REFUSED PAYMENTS
IN SUPPORT OF SOME 5. INITIATIVES THE 5. RECON
h2AINING -ONEY
AND 2ULESv
SIDERED ITS STANCE ON SEVERAL OF OUR REQUESTS 4HIS LED
TO MUCH
NEEDED REFORMS AND AN INCREASE IN RESPECT FOR
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
THE 53 IN THE WORLD GOVERNING BODY )TS HARD TO ARGUE
2ESOURCES
THAT THE WORLD ISNT SAFER AND SOUNDER NOW BECAUSE
OF THIS HARD LINE 4HE FACT IS THAT THE UNILATERALISM
EXPOUNDED BY THE "USH ADMINISTRATION HELPED THE 53
MAINTAIN ITS STATUS AS A WORLD POWER AND ALLOWED OUR
3CARCE
COUNTRY TO FOCUS MORE OF OUR RESOURCES AS WE SAW lT
4HE SECOND KEY FACTOR IN THE CHANGE THAT TOOK
PLACE DURING THAT TIME WAS A SUDDEN BREAKTHROUGH IN HAD ALREADY LEFT THE WORKFORCE THROUGH EARLY RETIRE
SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY ALLOWING THE $EPARTMENT MENTS &ORTUNATELY MANY HAD ALSO CONTINUED TO WORK
OF (OMELAND 3ECURITY TO ACHIEVE MANY OF ITS GOALS THUS CONTINUING TO CONTRIBUTE TO 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND
WITHOUT THE HUGE EXPENDITURES OF TAX DOLLARS ORIGI
-EDICARE AND DELAYING COLLECTING BENElTS FROM THESE
NALLY ANTICIPATED 7HILE CIVIL LIBERTARIANS AND THOSE PROGRAMS 4HE BOOMERS WERE THE SINGLE LARGEST GENERA
CONCERNED ABOUT PRIVACY ISSUES OPPOSED THE USE OF TION IN OUR HISTORY EVENTUALLY TO BE EXCEEDED ONLY BY
THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES BY AND LARGE THE CITIZENS OF THEIR OFFSPRING THE -ILLENNIALS !DVANCES IN HEALTH
THIS COUNTRY WERE WILLING TO GIVE UP SOME PRIVACY IN CARE AND HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES MEANT THAT THIS GENERATION
EXCHANGE FOR MORE SAFETY WOULD EXPERIENCE INCREASES IN AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY
4HESE CHANGES IN FOREIGN POLICY AND DOMESTIC NOT EVER SEEN BEFORE .OT ONLY WERE THERE LOTS OF THEM
SECURITY EXPENDITURES FREED UP MORE DOLLARS FOR OTHER THEY WERE GOING TO LIVE hFOREVERv ) KNOW )M ONE OF
PURPOSES AND HELPED US TO REDUCE THE NATIONAL DEBT THEM AND ) PLAN TO LIVE TO BE
7ITHOUT THE PRESSURE OF A TOWERING NATIONAL DEBT THERE 7E WERE FACING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT MORE THAN
WAS MORE MONEY IN THE CIVILIAN ECONOMY "USINESS AND PERCENT OF THE NATIONAL ELECTORATE WOULD BE OVER
INVESTMENT GREW WAGES INCREASED AS UNEMPLOYMENT AND MOSTLY RETIRED WITH ALL THE ATTENDANT COSTS OF
DECLINED ENTREPRENEURSHIP BLOSSOMED AND THE ENGINE KEEPING 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE AmOAT 4HE
OF OUR NATIONAL ECONOMY SPRANG TO LIFE AGAIN 4AX REVE
#ONGRESSIONAL "UDGET /FlCE PREDICTED STEADY DECLINES
NUES WENT UP AND EVERYONE HAD MORE MONEY TO SPEND IN TAX REVENUES ALONG WITH HUGELY INCREASED COSTS FOR
FOR DISCRETIONARY PURPOSES INCLUDING EDUCATION !S SUPPORTING OUR ELDER GENERATION 4HANKFULLY THE REDUC
FAMILIES OF SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN BECAME WEALTHIER MORE TIONS IN WAR AND NATIONAL SECURITY EXPENDITURES THAT )
AND MORE OF THEM WERE ABLE TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO DESCRIBED EARLIER ALLOWED LAWMAKERS TO CRAFT AND FUND
PRIVATE SCHOOLS )N ORDER TO MAINTAIN MARKET SHARE REALISTIC PLANS FOR HEADING OFF THE IMPENDING COLLAPSE
PUBLIC EDUCATION NEEDED TO REDOUBLE ITS EFFORTS TO OF 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE WITHOUT DEVASTATING
PROVIDE THE QUALITY AND RANGE OF CHOICES THAT PARENTS OTHER SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY IN THE PROCESS #ONTRI
WERE DEMANDING )T REQUIRED MUCH INGENUITY AND BUTIONS TO THESE SYSTEMS BY BURGEONING NUMBERS OF
FORESIGHT ON OUR PART TO CREATE ATTRACTIVE AND VIABLE IMMIGRANT WORKERS ALSO HAVE PROVIDED A FRESH INmUX OF
OPTIONS WITHIN THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM TO ADDRESS REVENUE
THE CHOICE ISSUE )N RESPONSE TO CUSTOMER DEMAND 3$% 4HE THIRD AND PERHAPS LEAST OBVIOUS CATALYST FOR THE
INCREASED ITS SUPPORT FOR THE CREATION OF MAGNET SCHOOLS CHANGES IN THE FORTUNES OF +n EDUCATION AND THE
CHARTER SCHOOLS AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS AGENCIES SERVING IT WAS THE SCIENTIlCALLY BASED RESEARCH
4HIS SHIFT IN FEDERAL PRIORITIES AND SPENDING HAD THE REQUIREMENT CONTAINED IN .#," %VEN BEFORE THE
ADDED EFFECT OF DIFFUSING A DEMOGRAPHIC TIME BOMB THAT PASSAGE OF THE lRST .#," IN THERE WAS GENERAL
LOOMED ON THE HORIZON FOR ALL OF US "EGINNING IN AGREEMENT AMONG EDUCATORS THAT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
MILLION BABY BOOMERS BEGAN TURNING -ANY PRACTICES NEEDED TO BECOME MORE EVIDENCE
BASED "UT
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
THERE WAS CONSTERNATION ABOUT HOW THAT COULD HAPPEN SUPPORTED THE 'UEST 7ORKER PROGRAM WERE GIVEN TO
GIVEN THE COMPLEX NATURE AND HUGE EXPENSE OF CON
THE STATES TO ADMINISTER )NCREASED STATE REVENUES FOR
DUCTING RIGOROUS SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 7ITH AN INmUX EDUCATION SERVICES FOR THESE POPULATIONS CONTRIBUTED
OF NEW DOLLARS TO THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EVEN MORE TO THE RESOURCES 3$% HAD AT ITS DISPOSAL FOR
THERE WAS A RE
DEDICATION TO THE GOAL OF EVIDENCE
BASED MEETING THE NEEDS OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS CHILDREN
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PRACTICES AND A REFOCUSING ON 7E WERE EXPERIENCING CONTINUOUS CHANGE ! DE
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION FOR ALL )N ORDER TO FACTO NATIONAL CURRICULUM HAD COME ABOUT AS A RESULT OF
CONDUCT THE NECESSARY STUDIES GATHER AND ANALYZE THE THE STANDARDS
BASED EDUCATION MOVEMENT !DDRESSING
DATA AND REPLICATE RESULTS THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF THE NEEDS OF A MORE DEMANDING AND DISCERNING CUSTOM
EDUCATION GREATLY INCREASED ITS ALLOCATIONS TO PROGRAMS ER BASE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THIS CURRICULUM COUPLED
THAT DEMONSTRATED THEY COULD CARRY OUT THESE ACTIVI
WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF .#," WAS AN ADDED CHAL
TIES 4HESE PROGRAMS WERE DESIGNED AND MANAGED BY LENGE 4HIS FORCED US AND OTHER AGENCIES LIKE OURS TO
THE )NSTITUTE FOR %DUCATION 3CIENCES AND IMPLEMENTED TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THE PRODUCT WE WERE DELIVERING AND
THROUGH STATE AGENCIES SUCH AS 3$% IN COLLABORATION TO DEDICATE OURSELVES ANEW TO PROVIDING THE BEST PUBLIC
WITH THE REVITALIZED 7HAT 7ORKS #LEARINGHOUSE 3UD
EDUCATION EXPERIENCES POSSIBLE TO OUR CHILDREN )N FACT
DENLY WE AND AGENCIES LIKE US FOUND OURSELVES IN THE THE REQUIREMENT FOR SCIENTIlCALLY BASED RESEARCH ON
POSITION OF NEEDING TO HIRE STAFF AND DEVELOP CAPACITY EFFECTIVENESS TURNED OUT TO BE A HUGE ECONOMIC BOON
TO DO THIS WORK )T MAY COME AS A SURPRISE TO YOU THAT TO THIS AGENCY AND AN INCREDIBLE BENElT TO THE CHILDREN
IN 3$% HAD NO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STAFF WE SERVE IN THAT IT HELPED US DO A BETTER JOB OF DELIVER
AT ALL .OW IT IS OUR LARGEST AND MOST WELL
RESOURCED ING PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES THAT WORKED "Y ADOPTING
DEPARTMENT PROVEN MODELS OF SYSTEMIC REFORM WE HAVE BEEN ABLE
.OW )LL TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT A TOPIC THAT TO PROMOTE MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF DATA AND IMPROVED
YOU MIGHT NOT THINK ABOUT VERY MUCH BUT THAT HAS ACCOUNTABILITY "Y RE
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF TECHNOL
QUITE AN IMPACT ON OUR WORK HERE AT 3$% DEMO
OGY WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REDUCE PAPERWORK AND SHIFT
GRAPHICS (ERE AGAIN OUTSIDE EVENTS TRANSPIRED TO RESOURCES TO FOCUS ON IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS
CREATE YET ANOTHER GROWTH INDUSTRY FOR OUR AGENCY !NOTHER KEY TREND THAT HAS SHAPED OUR WORK HAS
7ITH THE INSTITUTION OF THE 'UEST 7ORKER PROGRAM BEEN THE INCREASED FOCUS ON HIGH SCHOOL REFORM "EGIN
IN TO HELP MEET THE PRESSING LABOR NEEDS OF OUR NING IN GOVERNORS CHIEF EXECUTIVES AND EDUCA
GROWING ECONOMY THERE WAS A LARGE INmUX OF 3PANISH TION LEADERS HAVE MET ANNUALLY AT THE .ATIONAL %DUCA
SPEAKING CHILDREN INTO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 4HIS TION 3UMMIT ON (IGH 3CHOOLS TO DISCUSS THE NEED TO
POPULATION GROWTH CONTRIBUTED TO FURTHER ECONOMIC EX
STRENGTHEN REQUIREMENTS FOR RIGOROUS COURSEWORK BRING
PANSION WHICH CONTRIBUTED REVENUES TO STATE GOVERN
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES TOGETHER WITH +n EDUCATION
MENTS WHICH THEN INCREASED AVAILABLE MONEY TO SPEND TO SET COMMON EXPECTATIONS IMPROVE TEACHING AND
ON EDUCATION PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP AND EXPAND EDUCATION OPTIONS FOR
3OME DISTRICTS RELIED UPON NATIVE LANGUAGE PRO
STUDENTS 3OME OF THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING THAT HAS BEEN
GRAMS WHERE CHILDREN WERE TAUGHT AND TESTED IN THEIR AVAILABLE TO US OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS ALLOWED US
NATIVE LANGUAGE 4HIS WAS DONE BASED ON THE PRESUMP
TO FOCUS ON CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THIS NEED INCLUDING
TION THAT THESE CHILDREN WOULD EVENTUALLY RETURN TO STRONGER ARTICULATION OF REQUIREMENTS ACROSS THE 0n
THEIR NATIVE COUNTRIES AND THUS NEEDED TO BE PROl
CONTINUUM MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO EARN COLLEGE CREDIT
CIENT IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGES AS WELL /THER DISTRICTS IN HIGH SCHOOL RESTRUCTURING THE lNAL YEAR OF HIGH
PURSUED TRADITIONAL BILINGUAL AND %NGLISH AS A 3ECOND SCHOOL TO ASSURE A SMOOTHER TRANSITION TO COLLEGE AND
,ANGUAGE PROGRAMS 2EGARDLESS OF THE APPROACH TAKEN GREATER ATTENTION TO POST
HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION AND
TO ADDRESSING %NGLISH
LANGUAGE LEARNING AND SECOND TRAINING OPTIONS FOR NON
COLLEGE
BOUND STUDENTS !D
LANGUAGE POPULATIONS THERE WAS AN INCREASED NEED FOR DITIONALLY WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SUPPORT OR ESTABLISH A
TEACHERS PROlCIENT IN OTHER LANGUAGES AND CULTURES VARIETY OF EXTENDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDING
&EDERAL EDUCATION AND LABOR DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS THAT AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND 3ATURDAY ACADEMIES
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
) MUST SAY THAT OUR EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF !BUNDANT
PUBLIC EDUCATION HAVE BEEN MET WITH SOME MEASURE
OF SUCCESS 2ECENT POLLS SHOW THAT THE LEVEL OF PARENT h2AINING -ONEY
AND 2ULESv
TRUST OF PUBLIC EDUCATION HAS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY
9OUNG PEOPLE ARE mOCKING TO THE TEACHING PROFESSION
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
AGAIN AS TEACHER SALARIES HAVE INCREASED AND THE PROFES
2ESOURCES
SION HAS TAKEN ON ADDED RESPECT IN PART BECAUSE OF THE
KINDS OF RESULTS WEVE BEEN ABLE TO DELIVER 4HIS INmUX
OF NEW TEACHERS HAS PLACED ADDED REQUIREMENTS ON OUR
AGENCY AS WEVE CONTINUED TO MANAGE THE CREDENTIAL
3CARCE
ING PROCESS 4HE INCREASED EMPHASIS ON PROFESSIONALISM
AMONG YOUNG AND VETERAN TEACHERS ALIKE HAS MEANT
THAT OUR AGENCY HAS HAD TO INCREASE BOTH THE SCOPE AND
QUALITY OF ITS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFERINGS 7HAT IN IMPLEMENTATION FROM ONE SITE TO ANOTHER 4HESE
HAS BEEN THE RESULT OF ALL OF THIS CHANGE )M HAPPY TO STAFF ALSO MONITORED HOW PROGRAMS WERE IMPLEMENTED
SAY TO YOU TODAY THAT WE HAVE BECOME A BETTER ORGANI
!S THE NEED FOR EXPERIENCED RESEARCH TECHNICAL
ZATION ASSISTANCE AND TECHNOLOGY STAFF INCREASED SO DID THE
/UR STAFF HAS NEARLY DOUBLED IN SIZE OVER THE PAST NEED FOR SUPPORT STAFF .EW MANAGEMENT POSITIONS
lVE YEARS AS WE ADDED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE EXPERTS WERE NEEDED TO OVERSEE AND GUIDE THIS GROWING ENTER
SKILLED IN WORKING WITH DISTRICTS AND SCHOOLS TO PRISE !CCOUNTANTS WERE HIRED TO MANAGE THE mOW OF
IMPROVE LEADERSHIP CURRICULUM INSTRUCTION AND AS
DOLLARS TO THE LOCAL SITES 'RANT WRITERS WERE NEEDED TO
SESSMENT PRACTICES TO INCREASE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT WRITE THE APPLICATIONS THAT PRODUCED THE FEDERAL AWARDS
3PECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS HAVE RECEIVED RENEWED ATTEN
0OLICY ANALYSTS WERE HIRED TO ADVISE ME THE CHIEF
TION REQUIRING US TO HIRE MORE STAFF WITH SPECIAL EDUCA
EXECUTIVE OFlCER OF THIS ORGANIZATION ABOUT TRENDS IN
TION EXPERTISE 4HE APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES POLICY DEVELOPMENT AT THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS THAT
AS TOOLS FOR DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT OF INSTRUCTION WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON HOW TO PROCEED
ASSESSMENT AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CREATED A 4HE GROWTH WE EXPERIENCED WAS PHENOMENAL BUT IT
NEED FOR A CADRE OF TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANTS WHO COULD WAS NOT WITHOUT ITS DRAWBACKS #OMMUNICATION BREAK
WORK WITH SCHOOL STAFF )N THE PAST WE HAD TO RELY ON DOWNS OCCURRED AND DIFlCULTIES AROSE IN MANAGING STAFF
EXTERNAL PROVIDERS FOR THESE SERVICES .OW WE EMPLOY ING FACILITIES AND QUALITY CONTROL -OST CRITICAL AMONG
THIS EXPERTISE WITHIN 3$% GUARANTEEING CONTINUOUS OUR CHALLENGES HAS BEEN REMAINING FOCUSED AND INTE
ACCESS TO THE KNOWLEDGE NEEDED BY 3ANDIA EDUCATORS GRATED 'IVEN THE INCREASED ARRAY OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE
4HE REQUIREMENT FOR RIGOROUS RESEARCH TO DETERMINE TO US AND THE SIZE OF SOME PROGRAMS IT WOULD HAVE
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PRACTICES BEEN EASY TO WORK IN SILOS ISOLATED FROM ONE ANOTHER
RESULTED IN THE NEED FOR STAFF WITH RESEARCH SKILLS TO AND FAR LESS EFFECTIVE THAN WE WOULD BE BY LEVERAGING
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT STUDIES AND INTERPRET RESULTS 7E OUR EFFORTS ACROSS PROGRAMS 7E DID LOSE OUR BEARINGS
CONTINUE TO HAVE A NEED FOR STAFF SKILLED IN THE APPLICA
FOR A WHILE BUT BY CREATING CROSS
PROGRAM STEERING
TION OF RESEARCH lNDINGS TO EDUCATION PRACTICES $ATA COMMITTEES AND WORK TEAMS WE HAVE TO A LARGE DEGREE
ENTRY STAFF AND ANALYSTS WERE NEEDED TO ENTER MANAGE BEEN ABLE TO REGAIN OUR FOCUS EVEN THOUGH THERE IS STILL
AND MAKE SENSE OF THE DATA 3TILL MORE TECHNOLOGY WORK TO DO ,OOKING BOTH TO OUR PAST AND TO THE FUTURE
STAFF WERE REQUIRED TO SUPPORT THE RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS WE KNOW THAT OUR AGENCY HAS GONE THROUGH PERIODS OF
TEAMS 4O CONDUCT RIGOROUS STUDIES WITH EXPERIMENTAL BOOM AND BUST $EVELOPING STRATEGIES TO MAINTAIN OUR
AND CONTROL GROUPS MORE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE STAFF PROGRAMS THROUGH PERIODS OF AUSTERITY IS A CHALLENGE
WERE NEEDED TO TRAIN SCHOOL STAFF IN THE PROPER IMPLE
THAT WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US
MENTATION OF THE PROGRAMS BEING STUDIED SO THAT RE
SEARCH RESULTS WOULD NOT BE CONFOUNDED BY DIFFERENCES
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
7ITH THIS DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF THE )NDICATORS
AGENCY YOUVE JUST JOINED )VE GIVEN YOU A FOUNDATION %VENTS AND TRENDS THAT COULD SIGNAL THE DEVELOPMENT
THAT ) HOPE WILL SERVE YOU WELL AS YOU HELP US TAKE 3$% OF THIS SCENARIO INCLUDE
INTO THE FUTURE .OW LETS TURN TO TODAYS EVENTS AND
GET ON WITH YOUR ORIENTATION s $EFENSE AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUDGETS CONSUME
A SMALLER PERCENTAGE OF FEDERAL OUTLAYS
!NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO s 4HE ECONOMY BEGINS TO GROW AT A FASTER THAN
AVERAGE PACE
)MPLICATIONS
)N THE WORLD DESCRIBED IN THIS SCENARIO THERE IS s &EDERAL AND STATE FUNDING FOR EDUCATION BEGINS TO
TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY TO BE SYSTEMIC AND EFFECTIVE GROW
BUT THERE IS AN EQUALLY STRONG POTENTIAL TO LOSE COHER
s 3%! STAFF AND PROGRAMS BEGIN TO GROW
ENCE AND BECOME FRAGMENTED 4HE POTENTIAL EXISTS
FOR THE 3%! TO LOSE TOUCH WITH LOCAL EDUCATION AGEN
s 'OVERNMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR ANNUAL TESTING AND
CIES AND TO VIEW FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING AGENCIES REPORTING AND EVIDENCE
BASED PRACTICES INCREASE
AS ITS CUSTOMERS 3%! STAFF WILL INCREASE SUBSTANTIALLY
#OMMUNICATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE s 'UEST WORKER PROGRAM OR SIMILAR IMMIGRATION
3%! COULD DECREASE AND 3%! PROGRAMS COULD BEGIN FRIENDLY MEASURES GAIN SUPPORT IN #ONGRESS
TO OPERATE IN A VACUUM OR AT CROSS PURPOSES WITH ONE s #ONSUMERS OF EDUCATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
ANOTHER 4ECHNOLOGY COULD OFFER EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS FOR BEGIN TO SELECT PRIVATE PROVIDERS AT A GREATER PACE
MAINTAINING COMMUNICATION AND COHESIVENESS BOTH
ACROSS 3%! STAFF AND WITH 3%! CUSTOMERS &EDERAL AND
STATE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE EXPANDED INmUENCE BY
VIRTUE OF ABUNDANT FUNDING BEING CHANNELED THROUGH
THE 3%! ACCOMPANIED BY SIGNIlCANT RULES AND REGULA
TIONS 4HERE WILL BE A STRONG EMPHASIS ON ACCOUNTABIL
ITY WITH STRONG SANCTIONS FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY ! DE
FACTO NATIONAL CURRICULUM COULD EMERGE (IGH SCHOOL
REFORM WILL CONTINUE TO BE A KEY CONCERN 4HERE WILL
BE GREATER EMPHASIS ON RESEARCH
BASED PRACTICE AND LESS
LATITUDE FOR LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCIES TO CHOOSE INTER
VENTIONS THAT LACK A RESEARCH BASE PARTICULARLY WHEN
THERE IS FEDERAL OR STATE MONEY INVOLVED 4HERE WILL
BE AN INmUX OF IMMIGRANTS NEEDING SPECIALIZED SER
VICES -ANY CONSUMERS WILL HAVE RESOURCES TO PURCHASE
PRIVATE SCHOOLING FOR THEIR CHILDREN FORCING PUBLIC
SCHOOLS TO BECOME MORE INNOVATIVE AND MARKET DRIVEN
IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN ENROLLMENT 4HE TEACHER WORK
FORCE COULD GROW REQUIRING 3%!S TO STEP UP CAPACITY TO
DEAL WITH TEACHER CREDENTIALING
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
/PTIONS !BUNDANT
&OR 3%!S TO REMAIN EFFECTIVE IN THIS ENVIRONMENT
h2AINING -ONEY
THEY MUST ANTICIPATE THE EFFECTS OF SIGNIlCANT GROWTH AND 2ULESv
ON COMMUNICATION COHESIVENESS AND MORALE AMONG
3TRONG
THEIR STAFF 4HEY SHOULD EMBRACE FOCUSED RIGOROUS OR
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
GANIZATION WIDE LONG TERM PLANNING IN ORDER TO COMBAT
2ESOURCES
A POTENTIAL LOSS OF FOCUS IN THE AGENCYS MISSION )N PAR
TICULAR AGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD ACTIVELY LOOK FOR AND
EXPLOIT OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION AND LEVERAGING
ACROSS AGENCY PROGRAMS 3CARCE
4HE AGENCY MUST WORK HARD TO UNDERSTAND ITS LOCAL
EDUCATION AGENCY CUSTOMERS AND THEIR NEEDS AND ACT
ON THE KNOWLEDGE GAINED 7HILE ATTENDING TO THE
NEEDS OF LOCAL CUSTOMERS THE 3%! SHOULD NOT LOSE
SIGHT OF THE NEEDS OF AGENCIES SUPPLYING FUNDING FOR
ITS PROGRAMS 4O BUILD CONSUMER CONlDENCE IN PUBLIC
EDUCATION 3%!S MUST BUILD STATE INFRASTRUCTURES FOR
ACCOUNTABILITY THAT PROVIDE THE PUBLIC WITH ACCURATE
RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE QUALITY OF LOCAL SCHOOLS
3TATE CREDENTIALING OF TEACHERS MUST ENSURE QUALITY IN
THE TEACHER WORKFORCE &URTHERMORE 3%!S MUST CLEARLY
ADDRESS THE QUALITY AND RELEVANCE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
OFFERINGS ESPECIALLY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL
!GENCIES SHOULD CONSIDER COLLABORATING WITH HIGHER
EDUCATION AND PRIVATE RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS TO BOLSTER
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION CAPABILITIES TO PROMOTE IN
CREASED QUALITY IN THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM !LONG
WITH INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY AND QUALITY INCREASED
CHOICE WITHIN THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM WILL ATTRACT
PARENTS WHO ARE SEEKING OPTIONS FOR THEIR CHILDREN
,ARGER SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNER POPULATIONS WILL
REQUIRE MORE SPECIALIZED SERVICES REQUIRING THAT 3%!S
HAVE THE CAPACITY TO PROVIDE EFFECTIVE TECHNICAL AS
SISTANCE IN SUPPORT OF THESE PROGRAMS -AINTAINING AND
ENHANCING TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COMMUNICA
TION AND SERVICE DELIVERY WILL BE IMPORTANT
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY !BUNDANT
3CENARIO
$EEP #AUSES
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT GOVERNMENT lNANCIAL
SUPPORT FOR +n EDUCATION IS LIMITED BUT THAT FEDERAL
2ESOURCES
AND STATE GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE TO SEEK TO INmUENCE
EDUCATION THROUGH REGULATION 3TATE DEPARTMENT OF h! ,AST 2ESORTv
EDUCATION STAFF CHARGED WITH ADMINISTERING AND MONI
TORING FEDERAL PROGRAMS AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVELS 3CARCE
FACE A DAUNTING TASK .OT ONLY MUST THEY ADMINISTER
THE MEAGER RESOURCES ALLOTTED AND MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE
WITH STATE AND FEDERAL REGULATIONS ATTACHED TO THOSE
RESOURCES BUT THEY ALSO MUST BE CAREFUL TO BALANCE h! ,AST 2ESORTv
THE AMOUNT SPENT ON ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES WITH
4IME
THE AMOUNT SPENT ON SERVICES FOR THE INTENDED BENEl
CIARIES OF THE FUNDS -ANY AFmUENT FAMILIES HAVE mED 0LACE 3MITTYS 7AFmE (OUSE IN 0ORTALES 3ANDIA
THE PUBLIC SYSTEM LEAVING SCHOOLS TO SERVE ONLY THOSE
STUDENTS WHO HAVE NO OTHER OPTIONS )N THIS SCENARIO 3CENE $R !NDREA #OREY IS DELIVERING HER ANNUAL
#HIEF 3TATE 3CHOOL /FlCER !NDREA #OREY ENCOURAGES END
OF
THE
YEAR h3TATE OF THE 3ANDIA 3TATE $EPARTMENT
HER STAFF TO STAY FOCUSED ON WHATS IMPORTANT IN THE FACE OF %DUCATIONv MESSAGE TO HER STAFF AND 3TATE "OARD
OF DWINDLING RESOURCES OF %DUCATION MEMBERS WHO HAVE ASSEMBLED FOR THE
BREAKFAST MEETING
4HE FOLLOWING DEEP CAUSES LEAD TO THIS SCENARIO
s 7EALTHIER FAMILIES AND SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES
s 7ARS HOMELAND SECURITY COSTS 3OCIAL 3ECURITY
BECOME DISSATISlED WITH PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ARE
AND -EDICARE AND SOARING OIL PRICES PUT SEVERE
ENROLLING THEIR CHILDREN IN PRIVATE AND PAROCHIAL
PRESSURE ON FEDERAL AND STATE BUDGETS RESULTING IN
SCHOOLS IN GREATER NUMBERS
CUTS TO EDUCATION SPENDING
s &IRST AND SECOND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS ARE
s 3TATES FAIL TO OBTAIN SUBSTANTIAL RELIEF FROM
ASSUMING MORE PROMINENT ROLES IN BUSINESS AND
REGULATIONS UNDER .#," WHICH REMAINS FOCUSED
POLITICS
ON ONE
SIZE
lTS
ALL TESTING AND UNREALISTIC
PROlCIENCY GOALS s 4ECHNOLOGY OFFERS COST
EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO
MANAGING ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY DATA
s 3TATES STRENGTHEN DISTRICT AND SCHOOL ACCREDITA
TION REQUIREMENTS AND IMPLEMENT OTHER MEASURES ) WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR GETTING UP EVEN EARLIER
TO INCREASE CONTROL OVER HOW PUBLIC EDUCATION IS THAN USUAL TO COME HERE THIS MORNING )N YEARS PAST
PROVIDED THIS EVENT WAS HELD AT A LOCAL STEAKHOUSE BUT THIS YEAR
WEVE CUT BACK ON EXPENSES ,UCKILY 3MITTYS WAS ABLE
s (IGH SCHOOL REFORM INITIATIVES PLACE ADDITIONAL
TO ACCOMMODATE US AND PROVIDE A BOUNTIFUL BREAKFAST
lNANCIAL PRESSURE ON STATE EDUCATION AGENCIES
BUFFET SO ) HOPE YOU LIKE WAFmES
WITH NO COMPENSATING FEDERAL SUPPORT
4HIS IS THE TENTH TIME )VE COME BEFORE YOU AT THE
s )MMIGRATION POLICIES RESULT IN HIGH LEVELS OF LEGAL END OF THE YEAR TO REPORT ON THE CONDITION OF EDUCATION
AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM -EXICO AND #ENTRAL IN OUR GREAT STATE AND TO REmECT ON THE ROLE OF 3ANDIAS
!MERICA $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION AS IT SEEKS TO MEET THE NEEDS
OF THE CHILDREN OF OUR STATE 4HE PAST YEAR HAS BEEN
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
A TIME OF OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES &AITH IN OUR TIONAL AND GLOBAL EVENTS AND TRENDS THAT HAVE BROUGHT
MISSION TO ENSURE THE BEST POSSIBLE EDUCATION FOR THE US TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY
CHILDREN OF 3ANDIA AT TIMES SEEMS TO BE ALL THAT HAS 3INCE THE PASSAGE OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT
SUSTAINED US IN 3ANDIA ALONG WITH OTHER STATES HAS STRUGGLED
4HERE ARE FEWER OF YOU HERE TODAY THAN THERE WERE TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS SET OUT IN THE LEGISLATION "ECAUSE
LAST YEAR 4HE LAYOFFS EARLIER THIS YEAR HIT HARD AND WE OF THE EVER INCREASING COSTS OF HOMELAND SECURITY
ALL MISS OUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES WHO ARE NO LONGER HEALTHCARE FOR OUR AGING AND THE ONGOING WAR ON TERROR
WITH THE DEPARTMENT 7E HOPE THAT THE NEW YEAR WILL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FULLY
NOT BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF STAFF REDUCTIONS BUT AS YOU FUND THE ACT NOR HAS IT GRANTED STATES THE mEXIBILITY
KNOW THE STATE LEGISLATURE IS DISCUSSING CAPPING OUR NECESSARY TO MEET .#," GOALS THROUGH THEIR OWN
FUNDING AT LAST YEARS LEVELS 4HE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INNOVATION )N PARTICULAR THE ONE SIZE lTS ALL METHOD
HAS ONCE AGAIN HELD STEADY WITH ITS ALLOCATIONS TO 4ITLE FOR MEASURING STUDENT PERFORMANCE COUPLED WITH THE
) AND 3PECIAL %DUCATION PROGRAMS AND HAS REDUCED PERCENT PROlCIENCY GOAL HAS MEANT UNACHIEVABLE
FUNDING FOR OTHER PROGRAMS 3EVERAL PROGRAMS THAT PRO EXPECTATIONS FOR MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS !ND ESPECIALLY
VIDED SUBSTANTIAL FUNDING FOR OUR WORK ARE ZEROED OUT IN SIGNIlCANT TO 3ANDIA IS THAT THESE FEDERAL REGULATIONS
THE PRESIDENTS PROPOSED BUDGET $ESPITE REDUCTIONS IN DO NOT CONSIDER THE SPECIAL CHALLENGES OF ADEQUATELY
FUNDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NOT BACKED OFF THE TEACHING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND %NGLISH LAN
REGULATORY BURDEN THAT ACCOMPANIES FUNDING 4O COM GUAGE LEARNERS NOR DO THEY ADDRESS THE DIFFERENCES
POUND THE PROBLEM STATE FUNDING FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION AMONG RURAL SUBURBAN AND URBAN SCHOOLS
IS EQUALLY TIGHT /UR OBLIGATIONS TO 3ANDIAS STUDENTS 7E MUST FACE THE FACTS &OR TWELVE YEARS WEVE
HAVE NOT DECLINED )F ANYTHING THEY NEED MORE FROM STRIVEN TO MEET THE GOALS OF .#," IN THE FACE OF EVER
US THAN EVER BEFORE 7E ARE FORCED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN INCREASING REGULATION AND SANCTIONS COUPLED WITH LESS
SPENDING OUR LIMITED FUNDS ON SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT OR AND LESS lNANCIAL SUPPORT 4ODAY TEN PERCENT OF THE
ON MAINTAINING REGULATORY COMPLIANCE )T IS A DIFlCULT STATES SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CLOSED AND OVER PERCENT
LINE TO WALK OF THE REMAINING PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN 3ANDIA ARE STILL CLAS
4HE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WHILE WE REGRET THE LOSS OF SIlED AS IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT )N THE FACE OF DECLIN
OUR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS THOSE OF YOU HERE TODAY ARE ING PERSONNEL AND lSCAL RESOURCES OUR AGENCY IS BARELY
THE VERY BEST AND BRIGHTEST AND MOST COMMITTED STAFF ABLE TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
) HAVE EVER HAD !S A RESULT OF THE CHALLENGES ) JUST AND MONITORING FOR OUR EXISTING SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS
MENTIONED FUNDING SHORTAGES DECLINING STAFF AND LET ALONE HELP FAILING SCHOOLS TO GET BACK ON TRACK
HIGH EXPECTATIONS WE ARE RE EXAMINING OUR ROLE AS AN .OR ARE OUR REGULATORY CONCERNS LIMITED TO THE
AGENCY AND THE WAY WE WORK TOGETHER AS CHAMPIONS OF FEDERAL LEVEL "ACK IN 3ANDIAS STATE LEGISLATURE
QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION VOTED TO STRENGTHEN ACCREDITATION REQUIREMENTS FOR DIS
)N THE PAST WE STRUGGLED WITH MAINTAINING COHE TRICTS AND SCHOOLS 4HEY IMPOSED MORE RULES ABOUT HOW
SIVENESS ACROSS THE VARIOUS FUNDING STREAMS 4OO OFTEN DISTRICTS CAN SPEND THEIR STATE ALLOCATIONS AND MADE
BARRIERS BETWEEN CATEGORICAL PROGRAMS SEPARATED US IT POSSIBLE FOR THE STATE TO ACTUALLY TAKE OVER FAILING
AND WE WENT OUR INDIVIDUAL WAYS RATHER THAN COLLABO SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS 4HEY EVEN DRAMATICALLY REDUCED
RATING ON BEHALF OF 3ANDIAS SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES 7E THE LIST OF STATE APPROVED TEXTBOOKS FURTHER DAMPENING
MUST RE EXAMINE THESE HABITS OF THINKING AND WORKING LOCAL DISTRICTS ABILITY TO INNOVATE
3PECIlCALLY WE MUST THINK CREATIVELY ABOUT HOW TO !T THE HEART OF OUR NATIONS lNANCIAL PRESSURES IS
MAINTAIN BASIC COMPLIANCE WHILE FOCUSING OUR RESOURC THE FALLOUT FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS BORROWING
ES ON SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT 7E NEED TO KEEP OUR PUBLIC BINGE OF THE EARLY S )N THE ADMINISTRATIONS
SCHOOLS ALIVE EFFECTIVE AND RELEVANT TO OUR CUSTOMERS ESTIMATES FOR THAT lSCAL YEAR SHOWED A RECORD DElCIT OF
7E WILL DO THE RIGHT WORK DESPITE ANY CHALLENGES AND BILLION 4AX CUTS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS WERE KEPT
RISKS KNOWING THAT THE WORK WILL BE HUGELY REWARDING IN PLACE AND CONTINUED INVOLVEMENT IN FOREIGN WARS
4O BEGIN ) WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW SOME OF THE LOCAL NA PLACED A FURTHER DRAG ON THE ECONOMY 3O HERE WE ARE
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
IN WITH A FEDERAL BUDGET DElCIT DOUBLE WHAT IT !BUNDANT
WAS IN AND EVEN LESS MONEY AVAILABLE FOR DOMES
TIC PROGRAMS ESPECIALLY EDUCATION 4HE LONG
TERM lSCAL
PICTURE IS BAD AND GETTING WORSE %VEN MORE IMPORTANT
EVERYTHING THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IS PROPOSING
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
IN TERMS OF ADDITIONAL HOMELAND SECURITY MEASURES IS
2ESOURCES
GOING TO HAVE AN EVEN GREATER NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR
lSCAL PICTURE h! ,AST 2ESORTv
!NOTHER lNANCIAL BURDEN WEVE BEEN FACING HAS
COME WITH THE INCREASED FOCUS ON HIGH SCHOOL REFORM
3CARCE
"EGINNING IN AND EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER GOVERNORS
CHIEF EXECUTIVES AND EDUCATION LEADERS HAVE COME
TOGETHER THROUGH THE .ATIONAL %DUCATION 3UMMIT ON
HIGH SCHOOLS TO DISCUSS WAYS TO STRENGTHEN REQUIRE
CONTINUITY ACROSS 0n PROGRAMS AND REDOUBLED OUR
MENTS FOR RIGOROUS COURSEWORK BRING COLLEGES AND UNI
ATTENTION ON POST
SECONDARY NON
COLLEGE EDUCATION
VERSITIES TOGETHER WITH +n EDUCATION TO SET COMMON AND TRAINING CHOICES SO THAT ALL OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE
EXPECTATIONS IMPROVE TEACHING AND PRINCIPAL LEADER
THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE EDUCATION PAST HIGH SCHOOL
SHIP AND EXPAND EDUCATION OPTIONS FOR HIGH SCHOOL 4HERE ARE EARLY INDICATIONS THAT OUR EFFORTS ARE PAYING
STUDENTS 7E AT 3$% HAVE WORKED HARD TO SUPPORT OUR OFF ) AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT DECLINING GRADUATION RATES
CONSTITUENTS AS THEY STRIVE TO IMPROVE THEIR HIGH SCHOOL HAVE LEVELED OFF AND IN A FEW INSTANCES HAVE REBOUNDED
PROGRAMS 7EVE WORKED WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZA
SLIGHTLY !GAIN THE HARD CHALLENGES WE HAVE FACED
TIONS AND HIGHER EDUCATION TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE HAVE HELPED US FOCUS ON DOING THE RIGHT WORK
NEED FOR CREATIVE SOLUTIONS INCLUDING STRONGER ARTICULA
.ATURALLY PART OF THE CHALLENGE WEVE FACED OVER
TION OF REQUIREMENTS ACROSS THE 0n CONTINUUM MORE THE PAST TEN YEARS AND WILL CONTINUE TO FACE IN THE
OPPORTUNITIES TO EARN COLLEGE CREDIT IN HIGH SCHOOL FUTURE IS DUE TO NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS "EGINNING
RESTRUCTURING THE lNAL YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL TO ASSURE A IN NEARLY MILLION BABY BOOMERS THE SINGLE
SMOOTHER TRANSITION TO COLLEGE AND GREATER ATTENTION LARGEST GENERATION IN OUR HISTORY BEGAN TURNING
TO POST
HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION AND TRAINING OPTIONS FOR &ORTUNATELY A GOOD NUMBER OF US BOOMERS INCLUDING
NON
COLLEGE
BOUND STUDENTS 5NFORTUNATELY IN SPITE OF ME HAVE CHOSEN TO CONTINUE WORKING THUS CONTINU
THE SUSTAINED INTEREST OF OUR POLITICIANS THERE HAS BEEN ING OUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE
NO ADDITIONAL FUNDING AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT THESE INITIA
AND DELAYING COLLECTING BENElTS "UT BELIEVE IT OR
TIVES NOT WE CANT WORK FOREVER AND SOON THE LEVEL OF TAX
9ET THE CHALLENGE OF REFORMING HIGH SCHOOLS IS AN REVENUES GENERATED BY OUR HIGH SALARIES WHICH HAS
OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE PERSONAL OVER THE YEARS ALLOWED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO
LIVES OF OUR STUDENTS AND IN THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF OUR DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT HUGE PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS THE
COUNTRY 5NTIL THE ST CENTURY THE 53 ECONOMY NEEDS OF STUDENTS WHO FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS REQUIRED
INCLUDED A HEALTHY MANUFACTURING SECTOR THAT PROVIDED ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES WILL DIMINISH 4ITLE )
GOOD LIVING WAGE JOBS FOR PEOPLE NOT EDUCATED PAST THE ASSISTED GENERATIONS OF LOW
INCOME STUDENTS BY PROVID
HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL 4HAT HAS ALL CHANGED AS MANUFACTUR
ING ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO THEIR SCHOOLS 4HE )NDI
ING JOBS HAVE GONE OVERSEAS LEAVING BEHIND MOSTLY VIDUALS WITH $ISABILITIES %DUCATION !CT WHAT WE CALL
LOW
PAYING SERVICE JOBS FOR THOSE WITH ONLY A HIGH )$%! WAS A TREMENDOUS SOURCE OF HELP FOR STUDENTS
SCHOOL DIPLOMA /UR CHILDREN NEED A QUALITY EDUCA
WITH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HANDICAPS AND AN ESSENTIAL
TION THAT GOES BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL TO SURVIVE IN THE SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR THE SCHOOLS WORKING HARD TO MEET
NEW ECONOMY 7E ARE OBLIGED TO PROVIDE THE KIND OF THE NEEDS OF THESE SPECIAL STUDENTS )N FACT SOON OVER
EDUCATION THEY NEED TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES )N RECENT PERCENT OF THE NATIONAL ELECTORATE WILL BE OLDER THAN
YEARS WE HAVE PLACED GREATER EMPHASIS ON PROMOTING RETIRED FROM TRADITIONAL WORKPLACES AND PURSUING
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
THEIR INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS OR VOLUNTEERING AND LIVING ON IMMEASURABLE ASSISTANCE IN EXPLORING HOW WE ALL CAN
SAVINGS AND MEAGER PENSIONS !S A RESULT THE #ONGRES
INTEGRATE OUR SERVICES TO GET MORE BANG FOR OUR COLLEC
SIONAL "UDGET /FlCE IS PREDICTING SLOW BUT STEADY DE
TIVE BUCKS
CLINES IN TAX REVENUES #OMBINED WITH EVER
INCREASING 0ARENTS THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN ANOTHER RESOURCE
DEMANDS ON THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FROM AGING BOOMERS -ANY SECOND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS HAVE MOVED
WELL YOU CAN SEE THAT THE lNANCIAL SCENE AHEAD IS NOT INTO THE MAINSTREAM OPERATING SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES
ENCOURAGING RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL MANAGING STATE AND LOCAL
(ERE IN 3ANDIA WE FACE AN EVEN GREATER CHALLENGE AGENCIES AND OCCUPYING SEATS IN THE STATEHOUSE !S
-ANY RETIREES ARE MOVING TO OUR STATE TO TAKE ADVAN
ADVOCATES FOR THEIR OWN CHILDRENS EDUCATION AS WELL
TAGE OF THE WONDERFUL CLIMATE AND LOW STATE TAXES )N AS FOR NEW ARRIVALS IN THIS COUNTRY THEY ARE IN A UNIQUE
THE NEXT ELECTION IT WILL BE A HARD SELL TO CONVINCE POSITION TO HELP BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT THEIR
THESE PEOPLE TO PART WITH MORE OF THEIR lXED INCOMES KIDS NEED AND WHAT THE FEDERAL PROGRAMS CAN NO LONGER
TO PAY FOR SCHOOL BOND ISSUES !T THE SAME TIME THAT DELIVER
THE ELDERLY ARE MOVING TO 3ANDIA YOUNG PEOPLE ARE !S PUBLIC EDUCATION BECOMES MORE STARVED FOR
LEAVING THE STATE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES ELSEWHERE RESOURCES PARENTS WHO ARE ABLE TO MAKE A CHOICE ARE
3O YOU MIGHT ASK WHERE IN ALL OF THIS IS THERE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO PRIVATE OR PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
OPPORTUNITY FOR US &IRST OUR INCREASING POPULATION 7HEN 3ANDIA PASSED ITS SCHOOL CHOICE LEGISLATION IN
OF RETIREES CAN BE A TREMENDOUS RESOURCE IF WE VIEW IT OPENED THE DOOR FOR AN EXODUS OF STUDENTS
THEM AS ALLIES AND PARTNERS IN EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS .OT ONLY DID THIS FURTHER REDUCE
-EMBERS OF THE BOOMER GENERATION POSSESS A STRONG THE lNANCIAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE IT TYPICALLY LEFT PUBLIC
SOCIAL CONSCIENCE 'ROWING UP IN THE S BELIEVING SCHOOLS WITH HIGHER PERCENTAGES OF HARD
TO
SERVE
THAT WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER THROUGH STUDENTS AND MORE CROWDED CLASSROOMS )N FACT NOW
POLITICAL ACTION WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ATTRACTED TO ONLY ABOUT PERCENT OF ALL STUDENTS ATTEND PUBLIC
hTHE CAUSEv #OUPLE THIS ALTRUISM AND BELIEF WITH THE SCHOOL MAINLY IN INNER
CITY AND RURAL DISTRICTS 4HIS IS
FACT THAT BOOMERS TEND TO BE WEALTHIER HEALTHIER AND A DROP OF ALMOST PERCENT FROM A DECADE AGO /N THE
hYOUNGERv THAN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS OF RETIREES AND YOU PLUS SIDE THOSE PARENTS WHO STILL SEND THEIR CHILDREN
HAVE A READY SOURCE OF VOLUNTEERS WAITING ONLY FOR THE TO PUBLIC SCHOOL ARE MORE INVOLVED THAN EVER AND
RIGHT CAUSE TO INSPIRE THEM TO SERVICE ITS NOT JUST THE ANNUAL BAKE SALE #OMMITTED TO THEIR
.OW LETS CONSIDER FOR A MOMENT OUR SCHOOL
AGE CHILDRENS FUTURES AND UNABLE TO AFFORD PRIVATE SCHOOLS
POPULATION )N THE FACE OF STEADY DECLINES IN REVENUES THEYVE BANDED TOGETHER TO FORCE THE PUBLIC SYSTEM TO
AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT PUBLIC +n EDUCATION OUR DO BETTER )TS NOT ALWAYS FUN BUT ON THE OTHER HAND
SCHOOL
AGE POPULATION IS MORE DIVERSE AND HARDER TO WE KNOW THAT PARENT INVOLVEMENT IS ONE OF THE SINGLE
SERVE "ECAUSE FEDERAL POLICIES ENCOURAGE IMMIGRATION BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO IMPROVED OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN
MORE AND MORE OF OUR CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE %NGLISH AS 0ARENTS HAVE SERVED AS A STRONG MOTIVATIONAL FORCE TO
THEIR lRST LANGUAGE -ANY CHILDREN BOTH %NGLISH
AND IMPROVE ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS FOR ALL OF OUR CHILDREN
NON
%NGLISH SPEAKING LIVE AT OR BELOW THE POVERTY LINE /UR YOUNG TEACHER POPULATION IS ANOTHER VALUABLE
AND ) DONT HAVE TO TELL YOU WHAT KINDS OF SPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCE THAT REPRESENTS YET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR
THESE KIDS BRING TO SCHOOL WITH THEM EVERY DAY OUR STATE /NE OF 3ANDIAS BIGGEST CHALLENGES IN THE
4HE GOOD NEWS IS WE ARE NOT ALONE (UMAN SERVICE PAST HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO ATTRACT AND KEEP THE BEST AND
AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE HAVE EXPERIENCED SIMILAR BRIGHTEST IN THE TEACHING WORKFORCE 7HEN THE STATE
BUDGETARY PRESSURES WHILE AT THE SAME TIME HAVE SEEN LEGISLATURE PASSED THE TUITION FORGIVENESS PROGRAM IN
INCREASING DEMANDS FOR THEIR SERVICES )N RESPONSE IT WENT A LONG WAY TOWARD ENCOURAGING YOUNG
SOME STATE AGENCIES HAVE BANDED TOGETHER TO LEVER
BRIGHT TECHNOLOGY
SAVVY TEACHERS TO STAY IN RURAL AND
AGE THEIR RESOURCES IN SERVICE OF THE GREATER GOOD )M ECONOMICALLY DEPRESSED URBAN SCHOOLS 4ECHNOLOGY HAS
PLEASED TO SAY THAT OUR PARTNERS IN THE $EPARTMENTS OF CONSISTENTLY OFFERED IMPROVED CAPABILITIES AT A LOWER
#HILDREN AND &AMILIES AND 0UBLIC (EALTH HAVE BEEN OF PRICE )T IS THROUGH THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY THAT WE ARE
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
ABLE TO BRING CUTTING EDGE PROGRAMS AND OTHER RESOURC !BUNDANT
ES TO OUR ISOLATED AND ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED SCHOOLS
4ECHNOLOGY IS THE VEHICLE THAT TAKES OUR LEARNERS TO
PLACES NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE 7HEN MOST OF US IN THIS
ROOM GREW UP COLOR TELEVISION WAS HIGH TECH 3IXTEEN
3TRONG
7EAK
'OVERNMENT #ONTROL
BIT COMPUTERS SHOWED UP ABOUT THE TIME WE HIT HIGH
2ESOURCES
SCHOOL !4-S 5
SCAN GROCERY LINES WIRELESS NETWORK
ING VIRTUAL REALITY THESE WERE ALL AMAZING AND FOR h! ,AST 2ESORTv
MANY OF US JUST A BIT UNCOMFORTABLE AT lRST 4HE YOUNG
PEOPLE COMING OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION TODAY
3CARCE
WERE BORN WITH MICROCHIPS IN THEIR CRADLES 4HEY ARE
WHAT WE CALL hDIGITAL NATIVESv !LL THIS TECHNOLOGY IS
PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE FOR THEM (AVING A TEACHER WORK
FORCE WHO KNOWS WHAT TO DO WITH THESE RESOURCES HAS OPPORTUNITY LIES IN OUR ABILITY TO ENERGIZE BUSINESS AND
BEEN A BLESSING AND A NECESSITY COMMUNITY GROUPS TO RALLY AROUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN
4ECHNOLOGY ALSO HAS PROVIDED SOME OF THE SOLU
THEIR HOME TOWNS AND PROVIDE THE NECESSARY RESOURCES
TION TO OUR ACCOUNTABILITY PROBLEMS .EW SYSTEMS FOR FOR QUALITY LEARNING 2ESEARCH FROM THE S SHOWS
ASSESSMENT AND FOR CAPTURING AND USING INDIVIDUAL THAT WHEN A SMALL TOWN LOSES ITS PUBLIC SCHOOL THE REST
STUDENT DATA HELP US TAILOR EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES TO OF THE TOWN DIES AS WELL )N URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS
MEET INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND TO TEST SECOND LANGUAGE PROPERTY VALUES DECLINE WHEN NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS
STUDENTS IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGES 4HEY ALSO ALLOW US CLOSE DOWN OR ARE PLACED ON ACADEMIC WATCH LISTS )T IS
TO REPORT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN THE WAYS REQUIRED BY IN OUR COLLECTIVE BEST INTERESTS TO MAINTAIN OUR SCHOOLS
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT )T IS SAD TO SAY THOUGH THAT ) HAVE LONG BEEN A MEMBER OF VARIOUS CIVIC GROUPS
TWO OF THE STAFF LAID OFF LAST SUMMER WERE FROM 3ANDIAS AND HAVE ALWAYS ADVOCATED IN THOSE GROUPS FOR GREATER
TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT TEAM 4HE SCHOOLS IN OUR STATE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS ) AM ASKING YOU MEMBERS
MUST LEARN TO GROW THEIR OWN TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE OR OF THE 3TATE "OARD OF %DUCATION TO LIKEWISE ENCOUR
RELY ON THAT AVAILABLE IN THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES AGE YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO SEEK OUT WAYS OF SUPPORTING
3O WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN FOR 3$% AND OUR CUS
SCHOOLS 7E NEED MATERIALS 7E NEED EQUIPMENT 7E
TOMERS /UR PARENTS EXPECT TEACHERS TO BE CLEARER NEED VOLUNTEERS 7E NEED YOUR HELP TO PREPARE ALL OF
ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULD BE TEACHING 4HEY ARE DEMAND
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE
ING THAT THEY EMPLOY THE MOST EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL !ND YOU STAFF OF THE 3ANDIA 3TATE $EPARTMENT OF
PRACTICES IN OUR CLASSROOMS 4HEY EXPECT THAT THEY WILL %DUCATION OURS IS A NOBLE MISSION FRAUGHT WITH DIFl
USE QUALITY RESEARCH TO GUIDE SELECTION OF CURRICULUM CULTY ) NEED YOU TO REMEMBER OUR MISSION DO THE RIGHT
AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES (ERE AT 3$% THAT MEANS WORK AND KEEP THE FAITH
WE NEED TO BE MORE SKILLED AT UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH
AND HELPING TEACHERS TRANSLATE IT INTO PRACTICE 7E
NEED TO BE FAR MORE COLLABORATIVE AND CUSTOMER ORI
!NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO
ENTED THAN IN THE PAST DESPITE CONTINUED REGULATORY )MPLICATIONS
OBLIGATIONS 7E NEED TO BE CLEARER ABOUT WHAT WE NEED
TO DO TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN THE BEST TEACHERS 7E NEED )N THE WORLD DESCRIBED IN THIS SCENARIO THERE WILL BE
TO BE MORE CREATIVE IN LEVERAGING OUR RESOURCES ACROSS FEW RESOURCES AND LITTLE mEXIBILITY IN HOW TO USE THEM
PROGRAMS TO PRODUCE THE BIGGEST hBANG FOR THE BUCKv 4HE SIZE OF THE 3%!S STAFF WILL DECREASE SUBSTANTIALLY
!ND WE NEED TO BE VERY SKILLED AT USING TECHNOLOGY TO AND THE REMAINING STAFF WILL NEED TO DO MORE WITH LESS
SUPPORT ALL OF OUR EFFORTS 3TAFF MORALE IS LIKELY TO DECLINE &EDERAL AND STATE GOV
7HAT DOES THE COMING YEAR HOLD FOR US 4HERE IS AN ERNMENT WILL PROMULGATE MANY REGULATIONS BUT HAVE
OLD SAYING h.ECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTIONv /UR LITTLE ABILITY TO ENFORCE THEM POTENTIALLY LEADING TO
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
CYNICISM AMONG 3%! STAFF CHARGED WITH ASSURING REGU
s ,OCAL ECONOMIC INDICATORS ARE MORE POSITIVE THAN
LATORY COMPLIANCE /N THE OTHER HAND THE POTENTIAL NATIONAL INDICATORS
EXISTS FOR THE 3%! TO FOCUS ON REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AT
THE EXPENSE OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT /PTIONS
-ANY SCHOOLS WILL BE IDENTIlED AS IN NEED OF )N ORDER TO BE EFFECTIVE IN THIS SCENARIO 3%!S MUST
IMPROVEMENT 3%!S WILL NEED TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THEIR BECOME ADEPT AT COORDINATING AND LEVERAGING RESOURCES
MISSION OR RUN THE RISK OF LOSING SIGHT OF WHO THEY ARE ACROSS PROGRAMS 4HEY SHOULD PICK A FEW KEY PRIORITIES
EXPECTED TO SERVE "ECAUSE OF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND AND FOCUS ON THEM 2EGULATORY COMPLIANCE WILL BE
A TIGHT JOB MARKET IN OTHER INDUSTRIES TEACHER SUPPLY AN ISSUE BUT IT WILL BE UP TO THE 3%! TO STREAMLINE ITS
COULD BE REASONABLY HEALTHY PROCESSES AND RELY ON TECHNOLOGY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
4HERE WILL BE AN INmUX OF IMMIGRANTS AND SPECIAL TO REDUCE THE COST OF MONITORING COMPLIANCE
NEEDS CHILDREN INTO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM CREAT
)N ORDER TO DELIVER NECESSARY SERVICES ESPECIALLY
ING THE NEED FOR SOLUTIONS TARGETED AT THESE POPULA
TO FAILING SCHOOLS AND SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS 3%!S
TIONS THUS DRAINING RESOURCES FOR OTHER NEEDS ,OCAL WILL NEED TO COORDINATE THEIR WORK WITH OTHER HUMAN
ECONOMIES COULD BE HEALTHIER THAN NATIONAL ECONOMIES SERVICE HEALTH AND EDUCATION AGENCIES IN ORDER TO
AND POSSIBLY BE DOMINATED BY lRST GENERATION IMMI
LEVERAGE RESOURCES AND AVOID DUPLICATION OF SERVICES
GRANTS ,OCAL SCHOOL BOARDS COULD BECOME DOMINATED 0OLITICAL SUPPORT FOR MAKING THE HIGH SCHOOL CURRICU
BY lRST AND SECOND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS DRIVING LUM RELEVANT TO PRESENT AND FUTURE WORKFORCE NEEDS WILL
LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCIES TO FOCUS MORE ON THE NEEDS OF REQUIRE 3%!S TO TAKE A MORE SYSTEMIC VIEW OF THE 0n
THEIR CHILDREN 3TRONG LINKS TO LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS CONTINUUM WHILE NOT LOSING SITE OF THE NEEDS OF NON
COULD BE THE SAVING GRACE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION 9ET COLLEGE BOUND STUDENTS
THIS COULD RESULT IN A BACKLASH AGAINST PUBLIC SCHOOLS 4O SUPPLEMENT HUMAN RESOURCES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
FROM OTHER PARENTS WHO FEEL THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE NOT 3%!S WILL NEED TO WORK WITH OTHER STATE AND LOCAL
BEING WELL SERVED AGENCIES TO DEVELOP WAYS TO HARNESS THE ENERGY SKILLS
AND COMMITMENT OF RETIREES AND OTHER OLDER MEMBERS
)NDICATORS OF SOCIETY 4HEY WILL ALSO NEED TO REACH OUT TO PARENTS
%VENTS AND TRENDS THAT COULD SIGNAL THIS SCENARIO OF SCHOOL CHILDREN TO ENSURE RELEVANCE TO THIS KEY
UNFOLDING INCLUDE STAKEHOLDER GROUP HARNESS THEIR ECONOMIC SUPPORT AND
INGENUITY TO IMPROVE LOCAL EDUCATION AND MAINTAIN
s 3TATES DO NOT PREVAIL IN SEEKING MORE mEXIBILITY IN THEIR COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC EDUCATION
.#," REQUIREMENTS
$ISCUSSION 1UESTIONS
s #ONTINUED DEMAND FOR FEDERAL FUNDS FROM FOREIGN
!RE THE CRITICAL UNCERTAINTIES THAT FORM THE
POLICY HOMELAND SECURITY 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND
SCENARIO FRAMEWORK THOSE THAT YOU WOULD CHOOSE
-EDICARE
OR ARE THERE OTHER UNCERTAINTIES THAT SEEM MORE
s 3%! REVENUES DECLINE AND STAFF LAYOFFS INCREASE CRITICAL TO YOU
s /THER STATE AGENCIES COME UNDER SIMILAR !RE THE STORIES PLAUSIBLE #OULD THEY TURN OUT TO
PRESSURES BE TRUE )F NOT WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE
s #OLLEGE ATTENDANCE RATES DECLINE #AN YOU THINK OF OTHER IMPLICATIONS AND OPTIONS
FOR THE ORGANIZATION IN ADDITION TO THOSE WRITTEN
s 0UBLIC HEALTH INDICATORS SLIDE IN THE !NALYSIS SECTIONS
s )MMIGRATION POLICIES DO NOT REDUCE THE INmUX OF )F YOU WERE LEADING AN ORGANIZATION OF THIS TYPE
LEGAL AND ILLEGAL ALIENS WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW TO PREPARE FOR THESE
IMAGINED FUTURES
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
!MPLE
h!LL )NCLUSIVE h"ED AND "REAKFAST
,UXURY 2ESORTv #OUNTRY )NNv
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
#ONTROL OF ,EARNING
2ESOURCES
h2OADSIDE #HAIN h2EST 3TOP
-OTELv #AR #AMPINGv
,IMITED
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIOS
)NTRODUCTION
(ISTORICAL "ACKGROUND
-IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT IS ONE OF THE OLDEST DISTRICTS IN THE WESTERN 5NITED 3TATES &ORMED ON
*UNE THE DISTRICT ORIGINALLY CONSISTED OF A ONE
ROOM SCHOOL NAMED -IDDLETOWN (ISTORICALLY
COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE PLACED HIGH EMPHASIS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND THE DISTRICT HAS
BEEN CENTRAL IN SUPPORTING THE CITYS EDUCATION INITIATIVES -ANY GRADUATES FROM THE DISTRICT ARE COMMU
NITY AND STATE LEADERS
-ISSION 3TATEMENT
-IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT IN COLLABORATION WITH PARENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS IS COMMITTED
TO A COMMON PURPOSE %DUCATING EVERY CHILD FOR A BETTER TOMORROW PROMOTING DEMOCRACY THROUGH
PUBLIC EDUCATION
'OALS
4HE PRIMARY GOAL OF THE -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT IS TO PRESERVE THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES UPON
WHICH OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED BY IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS REGARDLESS OF RACE
ETHNICITY SOCIO
ECONOMIC STATUS GENDER OR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP
BETWEEN LOW
AND HIGH
PERFORMING STUDENTS
'OVERNANCE
! SINGLE BOARD GOVERNS -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT AND CONSISTS OF SEVEN ELECTED MEMBERS EACH
SERVING A FOUR
YEAR TERM )T IS THE POLICY OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION FOR
ALL STUDENTS 4HE BOARD ENCOURAGES COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ATTEND BOARD MEETINGS AND SCHEDULES A SET
TIME TO HEAR PUBLIC COMMENTS AT MEETINGS HELD ON THE lRST -ONDAY OF EACH MONTH FROM n PM
AT THE -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT OFlCE LOCATED AT &RONT 3TREET IN DOWNTOWN -IDDLETON
4HE SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS TO THE -IDDLETON "OARD OF %DUCATION 4HE SUPERINTENDENT IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE OVERALL OPERATIONS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BOARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
4HIS YEAR THE DISTRICT EMPLOYS TEACHERS CLASSIlED STAFF AND MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
"OUNDARIES AND %NROLLMENT
4HE -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT COVERS APPROXIMATELY SQUARE MILES AND IS LOCATED IN THE CITY OF
-IDDLETON 4HE DISTRICT SERVES A DIVERSE STUDENT POPULATION OF ABOUT STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN
THROUGH TH GRADE 7ATERS %DGE TO THE EAST OF TOWN IS A NEARBY BURGEONING COMMUNITY THAT IS RAPIDLY
BUILDING NEW HOMES PARKS AND ALONG WITH THEM SCHOOLS
3CHOOLS
-IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT MAINTAINS AND OPERATES SCHOOLS TWELVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS SIX MIDDLE
SCHOOLS AND FOUR HIGH SCHOOLS %LEMENTARY SCHOOLS AVERAGE STUDENTS MIDDLE SCHOOLS AVERAGE
STUDENTS AND HIGH SCHOOLS STUDENTS 4HE BOARD OF EDUCATION ADOPTED AN OPEN ENROLLMENT POLICY
PERMITTING PARENTS TO ENROLL IN THE SCHOOL OF THEIR CHOICE IF THERE IS SPACE
#HALLENGES
-IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT FACES MANY CHALLENGES RELATED TO ENROLLMENT STAFlNG STUDENT ACHIEVE
MENT AND BUDGET 4HE STUDENT POPULATION HAS CHANGED DRASTICALLY DURING THE PAST lVE YEARS DUE TO THE
INCREASE OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS EMPLOYED BY LOCAL AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING COMPANIES 4HIS IS
REmECTED IN AN INCREASE OF IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTHEAST !SIA AND -EXICO WHO ARE PREDOMINANTLY FROM LOW
SOCIO
ECONOMIC LEVELS )N ADDITION ENROLLMENT AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL HAS BEGUN TO DECLINE
4HE -IDDLETON 4EACHERS !SSOCIATIONS CONTRACT INCLUDES A STRONG TRANSFER POLICY WHICH AN INCREASING
NUMBER OF TEACHERS EXERCISE IN ORDER TO TEACH AT THE HIGH
PERFORMING EAST SIDE SCHOOLS !TTRACTING AND
RETAINING NEW TEACHERS AND STAFF TO LOWER PERFORMING SCHOOLS IS INCREASINGLY DIFlCULT AND COMPLICATED BY
THE FACT THAT MANY TEACHERS ARE NEARING RETIREMENT IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS
!LTHOUGH ALL BUT THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS MET !NNUAL 9EARLY 0ROGRESS !90 IN n -ID
DLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT DID NOT MEET THE DISTRICT !90 FOR %NGLISH
,ANGUAGE ,EARNERS (ISPANICS AND
SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS 3OME BOARD MEMBERS ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THE
DISTRICT WHICH IS IMPROVING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS MIGHT BE HAVING A NEGATIVE RATHER
THAN A POSITIVE IMPACT ON ITS OVERALL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SCORES
&INALLY THE DISTRICT CONTINUES TO REDUCE ITS SPENDING AS IT EXPERIENCES STATE AND FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS
7ITH NO HOPE FOR INCREASED FUNDING ON THE HORIZON THE BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS ESTABLISHED A lNANCE
COMMITTEE FOR THE lRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY
&/#!, )335% 7HAT STEPS CAN -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT TAKE NOW TO ENSURE THAT IT IS A HIGH
PER
FORMING DISTRICT IN
)N THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVED THE FORMATION OF A
MEMBER DISTRICT STRATEGY TEAM
WHICH INCLUDES ADMINISTRATORS TEACHERS PARENTS AND BOARD AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO GENERATE
STRATEGIES FOR THRIVING IN THE FUTURE AND REALIZING THE DISTRICT VISION OF BEING A HIGH
PERFORMING DISTRICT
4HE TEAM HAS FOCUSED ITS WORK ON EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGES IN THE LOCUS OF CONTROL OF LEARNING
FROM INSTITUTIONS TO INDIVIDUALS AS WELL AS POSSIBLE INCREASES OR DECREASES IN THE AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY !MPLE
3CENARIO h!LL )NCLUSIVE
,UXURY 2ESORTv
$EEP #AUSES
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
#ONTROL OF ,EARNING
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT THE TRADITIONAL INSTI
TUTIONAL CONl GURATIONS THAT HAVE DEl NED !MERICAN
2ESOURCES
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OVER THE PAST THREE CENTURIES REMAIN THE
PRIMARY FORM OF SCHOOLING AND THAT RESOURCES FOR EDUCA
TION ARE ABUNDANT AS A RESULT OF THE FOLLOWING CAUSES
,IMITED
s 4HE SUCCESS OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT
OF IN DRAMATICALLY IMPROVING STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL SUBGROUPS EXCEPT EXCEPTIONAL h!LL
)NCLUSIVE ,UXURY 2ESORTv
NEEDS STUDENTS
4IME
s .ATIONAL ATTENTION FOCUSED ON #HINAS EMERGING 0LACE -IDDLETON 53!
ECONOMIC DOMINANCE ATTRIBUTED IN PART TO THE
3CENE %$
-/.4(,9 COVERS EDUCATION
RELATED
STRONG MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE SKILLS OF THEIR
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE WESTERN STATES )N ADDITION TO
STUDENTS AS REPORTED IN 4)--3
LEGISLATIVE UPDATES AND NEWS ARTICLES IT RUNS OP
EDS
s !DEQUATE FUNDING FOR EDUCATION AT THE FEDERAL AND FEATURE SECTIONS &OR THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS
STATE AND LOCAL LEVELS AS A RESULT OF THE PUBLICS AN %$
-/.4(,9 REPORTER HAS BEEN ATTENDING
REALIZATION THAT MONEY USED IN THE hRIGHT WAYSv -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS MONTHLY BOARD MEETINGS
CAN LEAD TO IMPROVED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT HOPING TO BE THE l RST WITH hBREAKING NEWSv TO REPORT
AS WELL AS SCHOOL l NANCE LITIGATION THAT LED TO 3HES BEEN TIPPED OFF TO EXPECT A POSSIBLE PARTNERSHIP
CHANGES IN SCHOOL FUNDING WITH A VERY BIG CORPORATE PLAYER 4ONIGHT SHE GETS
LUCKY THE BOARD MAKES ITS SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT
s )NCREASED PARTNERSHIPS WITH CORPORATIONS ABOUT A CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP WITH -ICRO4ECH #OM
PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING TO LOCAL PUTING TO IMPROVE MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOR +n
EDUCATION AGENCIES STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT (ER EDITOR INTENDS TO RUN THE
hHOTv STORY ON THE NEWSPAPERS 7EB SITE RATHER THAN
,IKE VACATIONERS TO h#LUB -ED v STUDENTS ENJOY
HOLD IT FOR NEXT MONTHS ISSUE
MANY EDUCATIONAL LUXURIES WITHIN A HIGHLY STRUCTURED
ENVIRONMENT IN THIS SCENARIO 4HE SUPPLEMENTAL hBELLS
AND WHISTLESv MAKE THIS WELL
DEl NED AND STANDARDIZED
EDUCATION ATTRACTIVE /N &EBRUARY -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT
"OARD 0RESIDENT -ICHELLE #OULEY ANNOUNCED -IDDLE
TONS h0ARTNERSHIP FOR )NNOVATIONv WITH -ICRO4ECH
#OMPUTING TO A PACKED GYMNASIUM OF NEARLY COM
MUNITY MEMBERS 4HE -IDDLETON
-ICRO4ECH PARTNER
SHIP WAS l NALIZED ON &EBRUARY WHEN -ICRO
4ECH #%/ *OSHUA 2HODES 3UPERINTENDENT 'UADALUPE
-ARTINEZ AND "OARD 0RESIDENT -ICHELLE #OULEY SIGNED
A LANDMARK l VE
YEAR AGREEMENT WHICH SIGNIl ES A NEW
ERA FOR THE -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
)N ADDITION TO DONATING MILLION DOLLARS OVER STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND HAS INCREASED PUBLIC SUPPORT
THE COURSE OF lVE YEARS TO IMPROVE MATHEMATICS FOR FUNDING SCHOOLS )N ADDITION MOST STATES INCREASED
AND SCIENCE INSTRUCTION IN THE DISTRICT A -ICRO4ECH FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS AS A RESULT OF THE SPATE OF SCHOOL
REPRESENTATIVE WILL SERVE AS AN EX OFlCIO MEMBER OF lNANCE LAWSUITS IN THE lRST DECADE OF THE ST CENTURY
THE -IDDLETON "OARD OF %DUCATION 4HE PARTNERSHIP #OULEY EXPLAINED THAT THE FUNDING PROVIDED BY -I
WILL FUND NEW EXTRACURRICULAR 0RE+
SCIENCE AND CRO4ECH WILL ALLOW THE DISTRICT TO GO THE EXTRA YARD IN
MATHEMATICS ACTIVITIES VIRTUAL APPRENTICESHIPS FOR HIGH PROVIDING ADDITIONAL TRAINING FOR TEACHERS AND IN BOOST
SCHOOL STUDENTS AND EXTENSIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOP
ING STUDENTS INTEREST IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
MENT FOR TEACHERS PRINCIPALS AND STAFF )N OTHER BUSINESS OF THE EVENING #OULEY WELCOMED
*OSHUA 2HODES TO THE -IDDLETON "OARD OF %DUCATION
2EACHING OUT TO "USINESS STATING
-IDDLETON DISTRICT OFlCIALS ENTHUSIASTICALLY COMMENTED -ICRO4ECHS PRESENCE ON THIS BOARD REPRESENTS A
ON THE )NNOVATION 0ARTNERSHIP 3UPERINTENDENT -AR
BREAKTHROUGH IN THE KIND OF THINKING THAT HAS TRADI
TINEZ WAS THE lRST TO SPEAK (ER REMARKS BELOW PROVIDE TIONALLY CONSTRAINED OUR PROGRESS ,ESS THAN A DECADE
INSIGHT INTO THE BOARDS MOTIVATION AGO EDUCATORS TALKED ABOUT MAKING SCHOOL RELEVANT
TO THE @REAL WORLD AND BUSINESSES TALKED ABOUT THE
)T IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT WE ENTER INTO THIS
NEED FOR A WELL
PREPARED WORKFORCE 4ODAY WE KNOW
PARTNERSHIP WITH -ICRO4ECH )T IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT
THAT EDUCATION AND BUSINESS NEED TO ENGAGE IN THAT
WE lND OURSELVES IN THIS UNIQUE POSITION TODAY /VER
CONVERSATION TOGETHER AS PARTNERS THAT IS WHAT THIS
THE PAST DECADE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN -IDDLETON
PARTNERSHIP REPRESENTS
3CHOOL $ISTRICT HAS DRAMATICALLY IMPROVED )N
WE WERE AWARDED THE h.O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND ! -ARTIN %SCOBAR PRESIDENT OF -IDDLETONS ,ATINO
$ECADE OF 3UCCESSv AWARD FROM THE 5NITED 3TATES #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE SPOKE NEXT %SCOBAR VOICED
$EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION FOR MEETING !DEQUATE HIS ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORT FOR THE PARTNERSHIP AND
9EARLY 0ROGRESS IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS FOR ALL SUBGROUPS
REMINDED LISTENERS ABOUT THE VALUE OF PARTNERSHIPS THAT
$ISTRICTS ACROSS THE 5NITED 3TATES LIKE -IDDLETON PROVIDE CONTINUED ECONOMIC GROWTH TO -IDDLETON THE
HAVE DEMONSTRATED TREMENDOUS IMPROVEMENT IN STATE AND THE COUNTRY (E EXPRESSED HIS HOPE THAT ALL
STUDENT LEARNING AND WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES STUDENTS WOULD BENElT EQUALLY FROM THE PARTNERSHIP
NATIONALLY !LTHOUGH THIS NATIONAL HONOR COMMEMO
BEFORE -IDDLETON 4EACHERS !SSOCIATION -4! 0RESI
RATES OUR SUCCESS WE HAVE FARTHER TO GO IN ORDER TO DENT -ARY 3HELTON TOOK THE PODIUM 3HELTON EX
THRIVE IN AN INCREASINGLY COMPETITIVE GLOBAL ECONOMY PRESSED TEACHERS APPRECIATION FOR THE FUNDS THAT WOULD
WE MUST ACHIEVE INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE 7E KNOW SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUT ADDED THAT ALL
FROM THE 4RENDS IN )NTERNATIONAL -ATHEMATICS AREAS OF THE CURRICULUM NEED SIMILAR SUPPORT
AND 3CIENCE 3TUDY 4)-33 RESULTS THAT OUR INCRE
(ERBERT !RMSTRONG RETIRED PRINCIPAL OF -IDDLE
MENTAL IMPROVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE TON (IGH 3CHOOL AND CURRENT PRESIDENT OF -IDDLE
IS INSUFlCIENT COMPARED TO THE TREMENDOUS GROWTH TON 3ENIOR #ENTER EXPRESSED GENERAL SUPPORT OF THE
THAT COUNTRIES LIKE 3INGAPORE AND #HINA CONTINUE TO PARTNERSHIP BUT CONCERN ABOUT ALLOWING A -ICRO4ECH
MAKE REPRESENTATIVE AN EX OFlCIO SEAT ON THE SCHOOL BOARD
!RMSTRONG ASKED THE SCHOOL BOARD TO KEEP IN MIND
&OLLOWING $R -ARTINEZS REMARKS "OARD 0RESIDENT
THAT hSCHOOLS ARE NOT BUSINESSES AND SHOULDNT BE RUN
#OULEY REMINDED THE AUDIENCE THAT FEDERAL STATE AND
BY BUSINESS RULES 4EN MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR SHOULDNT
LOCAL FUNDS HAVE BEEN ADEQUATE TO SUPPORT THE DISTRICTS
GIVE -ICRO4ECH THE RIGHT TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT AFFECT
EDUCATION PROGRAM IN PART BECAUSE UNDER .#,"
ALL THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF SCHOOLINGv
EDUCATORS LEARNED HOW TO EFFECTIVELY ALLOCATE FUNDS TO
DIRECTLY SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING 4HIS HAS PUT TO REST
THE ARGUMENT THAT MONEY DOESNT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
-ICRO4ECH 2ESPONDS TO )TS (OME
!MPLE
TOWNS #ALL
h!LL
)NCLUSIVE
-ICRO4ECH #OMPUTING IS A NATIONAL LEADER IN ,UXURY 2ESORTv
MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS %STABLISHED IN THE CORPO
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
RATION IS BEST KNOWN FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT OF 3AFE 3ENSOR #ONTROL OF ,EARNING
A PERSONAL SECURITY DEVICE THAT DETECTS BIOLOGICAL
2ESOURCES
HAZARDS ,OCATED IN THE INDUSTRIAL PARK ON THE OUTSKIRTS
OF -IDDLETON -ICRO4ECH EMPLOYS APPROXIMATELY
STAFF MEMBERS -ORE THAN PERCENT OF THE
CORPORATIONS EMPLOYEES HOLD ADVANCED MATHEMATICS ,IMITED
AND SCIENCE DEGREES
&INDING QUALIlED CANDIDATES TO lLL POSITIONS AT -I
CRO4ECH HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY DIFlCULT 2HODES SAID
DESCRIBING THE -IDDELTON
-ICRO4ECH )NNOVATION 0ART
0ART OF OUR LONG
TERM CORPORATE STRATEGY TO
NERSHIP AS hA LOCAL SOLUTION TO A GLOBAL PROBLEMv /VER ATTRACT TOP SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS IS TO STRENGTHEN
THE PAST DECADE THE NUMBER OF JOBS REQUIRING MATHE
0RE+n MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION 7E
MATICS AND SCIENCE DEGREES HAS INCREASED BY PERCENT MUST PREPARE MORE STUDENTS TO ENTER OUR TOP RESEARCH
AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO RISE DUE TO THE ADVANCES UNIVERSITIES WHERE THEY WILL GAIN THE SKILLS THEY NEED
IN NANOTECHNOLOGY YET THE NUMBER OF 53 STUDENTS TO WORK IN INDUSTRIES THAT KEEP OUR NATIONS ECONOMY
MAJORING IN SCIENCE MATHEMATICS OR ENGINEERING HAS STRONG !ND TO BETTER PREPARE OUR STUDENTS WE MUST
BEEN DECREASING FOR THE PAST DECADE !T THE SAME TIME BETTER PREPARE OUR TEACHERS 7E INTEND TO WORK
IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS #HINA AND )NDIA UNDERGRADUATE ALONGSIDE THE COMMUNITY AND HAND
IN
HAND WITH
ENROLLMENT HAS EXPLODED AND THE SIGNIlCANT INVEST
LOCAL COLLEGES TO SEE TO IT THAT OUR TEACHER EDUCATION
MENTS THAT FOREIGN COUNTRIES HAVE MADE IN THEIR EDUCA
PROGRAMS ARE AMONG THE lNEST IN THE NATION 7E
TIONAL AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE HAVE PAID OFF &EWER HAVE SEEN THE INCREDIBLE PROGRESS THAT -IDDLETON
AND FEWER FOREIGN STUDENTS ARE ENROLLING IN ADVANCED 3CHOOL $ISTRICT HAS MADE OVER THE PAST YEARS
DEGREE PROGRAMS IN THE 5NITED 3TATES !ND THOSE THAT AND WE BELIEVE THAT WITH OUR SUPPORT THEY WILL HELP
DO OFTEN LEAVE AS SOON AS THEY GRADUATE BECAUSE OUR $E
PRODUCE THE NATIONS TOP NANOTECHNOLOGISTS
PARTMENT OF (OMELAND 3ECURITY HAS MADE IT SO DIFlCULT
FOR THEM TO SECURE VISAS TO WORK IN THE 5NITED 3TATES 4HE FOCUS ON IMPROVING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
!MERICAN CORPORATIONS lND THEMSELVES LOOKING FOR EDUCATION IN THE 5NITED 3TATES HAS INTENSIlED SINCE
HOMELAND SOLUTIONS TO THIS GLOBAL PROBLEM $EVELOP
WHEN THE "USINESS
(IGHER %DUCATION &ORUM
ING CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH EDUCATION IS A SOLUTION PUBLISHED ITS SEMINAL REPORT ! #OMMITMENT TO !MERI
THAT JUST MIGHT WORK /BVIOUSLY *OSHUA 2HODES AGREES CAS &UTURE 2ESPONDING TO THE #RISIS IN -ATHEMATICS AND
(IS REMARKS FROM THE BOARD MEETING FOLLOW 3CIENCE %DUCATION 4HIS REPORT IDENTIlED IMPROVED
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION AS ESSENTIAL TO
MAINTAIN OUR NATIONS COMPETITIVE EDGE IN AN INCREAS
INGLY GLOBAL ECONOMY 3IMILAR TO THE EFFECT THAT !
.ATION AT 2ISK HAD IN THIS REPORT HAS STIMU
LATED CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE VIABILITY OF OUR
ECONOMY AT THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS
"USINESS
(IGHER %DUCATION &ORUM ! #OMMITMENT TO !MERICAS &UTURE 2ESPONDING TO THE #RISIS IN -ATHEMATICS 3CIENCE %DUCATION
7ASHINGTON $# "USINESS
(IGHER %DUCATION &ORUM
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
4HE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESPONDED TO THE CRISIS IN TESTED /VER THE PAST DECADE .!%0 HAS BEEN ADMIN
WHEN THE TH #ONGRESS APPROVED A CORPORATE ISTERED ONLY IN READING AND MATHEMATICS AND ONLY TO A
TAX CODE PROVIDING CORPORATIONS WITH A PERCENT DE SAMPLE OF STUDENTS IN GRADES AND AT THE NATION
DUCTION ON ANY LONG TERM DONATIONS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS AL LEVEL AND GRADES AND AT THE STATE LEVEL 3CIENCE
4HIS MEANS THAT CORPORATIONS LIKE -ICRO4ECH THAT AND WRITING HAVE BEEN TESTED EVERY FOUR YEARS AT THE
INVEST IN EDUCATION FOR lVE OR MORE CONSECUTIVE YEARS NATIONAL AND STATE LEVELS )N THE *ANUARY PRESS
CAN CLAIM A GREATER DEDUCTION ON THEIR CORPORATE TAXES RELEASE ABOUT !.%! $R -ANUEL 'ARCIA 3ECRETARY
)N A FOLLOW UP INTERVIEW *OSHUA 2HODES DESCRIBED THE OF %DUCATION SINCE SPOKE TO THIS ISSUE SAYING h)F
NEW TAX PROVISION AS A hWIN WINv WE ARE GOING TO COMPETE INTERNATIONALLY PARTICULARLY
IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE WE HAVE TO MEASURE
&EDERAL -ANDATES IN 2ESPONSE TO STUDENT LEARNING NATIONALLY ON A REGULAR BASIS (AVING
)NTERNATIONAL #OMPETITION MORE COMPLETE AND FREQUENT STATE LEVEL DATA WILL HELP
$ESPITE THE IMPROVEMENTS IN EDUCATION AS A US BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO IMPROVE
RESULT OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT OF AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN THESE CRITICAL CONTENT AREASv
!MERICAS RENEWED CONlDENCE IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0ERHAPS THE GREATEST CONTROVERSY REGARDING THE
AND DISTRICTS THE 5NITED 3TATES CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE !.%! LIES NOT IN ITS SUBSTANCE BUT IN ITS FUNDING )N
EDUCATIONALLY ON AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 4HE FEDERAL THEIR ANNUAL STATE SUMMIT MEETING !LLIANCE OF 3TATES
GOVERNMENT HAS MADE DRASTIC CHANGES IN FEDERAL %XECUTIVE $IRECTOR !LEXIS 3TARLING SUGGESTED THAT
EDUCATIONAL POLICIES SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM INDIVIDUAL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT MEETS ITS lNANCIAL
SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS TO THE NATION 4HIS YEAR THE OBLIGATION RELATED TO !.%! EVEN THOUGH !.%!
5NITED 3TATES $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION WILL BEGIN INCLUDES A FUNDING MANDATE 3TARLING STATED h7E HAVE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE !CHIEVING .ATIONAL %XCELLENCE ALL BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS USE
!CT !.%! WHICH WAS PASSED BY #ONGRESS LAST YEAR OF UNFUNDED MANDATES 3ECRETARY 'ARCIA RECOMMENDED
4HE INTENT OF !.%! IS TO IMPROVE THE .ATIONS 2EPORT THAT #ONGRESS FULLY FUND THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND
#ARD AND 5NITED 3TATES SCORES ON THE 4)-33 AN IN THE ANNUAL .!%0 7E HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE FROM
TERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE ASSESSMENT GIVEN THE 53$/% WITH THE )NDIVIDUAL WITH $ISABILITIES
TO TH AND TH GRADE STUDENTS IN OVER COUNTRIES %DUCATION !CT )$%! AND .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND
EVERY FOUR YEARS 4HE 5NITED 3TATES HAS CONTINUED TO .#," v 53$/% REPRESENTATIVE -ARK 5LRICH COM
MAKE ONLY INCREMENTAL GROWTH ON THE 4)-33 3INCE MENTED h0OLICYMAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS WILL SOON SEE
THE 4)--3 OUR SCORES HAVE CONTINUED TO HOVER THAT IMPLEMENTING A NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND NATIONAL
JUST SLIGHTLY OVER THE INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE FOR BOTH ASSESSMENTS ARE MORE COST EFFECTIVE THAN OUR CURRENT
TH AND TH GRADERS IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE )N SYSTEMv
CONTRAST OTHER COUNTRIES SUCH AS 3INGAPORE AND #HINA $ESPITE THE CONTROVERSY THAT WILL INEVITABLY ENSUE
HAVE INCREASED THEIR SCORES BY OVER POINTS SINCE REGARDING ANY NEW FEDERAL MANDATE LIKE THE !CHIEV
LEAVING THE 5NITED 3TATES FARTHER BEHIND 4HE ING .ATIONAL %XCELLENCE !CT IT IS CERTAIN THAT WE MUST
5NITED 3TATES $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION 53$/% MAKE FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES TO COMPETE WITH COUN
PLANS TO RESPOND TO THIS INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CRISIS TRIES SUCH AS #HINA THAT CONTINUE TO OUTPERFORM US
IN WITH TWO NEW FEDERAL MANDATES EDUCATIONALLY ECONOMICALLY AND EVEN PHYSICALLY AS
4HE 53$/% WILL INCREASE ACCOUNTABILITY AT THE EVIDENCED IN THE RECENT /LYMPICS $ONALD -C"URNS
FEDERAL LEVEL THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANNUAL #HAIR OF THE 5NITED 3TATES /LYMPICS #OMMITTEE AT
.ATIONAL !SSESSMENT OF %DUCATIONAL 0ROGRESS .!%0 TRIBUTES THE POOR PERFORMANCE OF 5 3 ATHLETES TO A
TESTING IN READING WRITING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE DECISION IN TO ELIMINATE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PRO
FOR STUDENTS IN RDnTH GRADES IN EVERY DISTRICT IN GRAMS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN AN EFFORT TO MEET THE AC
EVERY STATE 4HIS REPRESENTS A SIGNIlCANT CHANGE IN COUNTABILITY PROVISIONS AND FUNDING DEMANDS OF .#,"
TERMS OF THE GRADES CONTENT AND NUMBER OF STUDENTS -C"URNS BELIEVES THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS MUST RE ASSUME
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
RESPONSIBILITY FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION !FTER THE CLOSING !MPLE
CEREMONY OF THE /LYMPICS HE HAD THIS TO SAY
&OR THE lRST TIME IN HISTORY #HINA TOOK MORE MEDALS h!LL
)NCLUSIVE
,UXURY 2ESORTv
THAN THE 5NITED 3TATES /NLY EIGHT YEARS AGO WE TOOK
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
MEDALS AND THEY TOOK )F #HINAS PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR #ONTROL OF ,EARNING
IS ANY INDICATION OF WHAT IS TO COME IN WE NEED TO
2ESOURCES
TAKE A HARD LOOK AT OURSELVES AS A NATION #HINA OBVIOUSLY
IS CONTINUING ON ITS PATH TO BECOMING A SUPER POWER )F WE
DONT TAKE ACTION NOW WELL BE LEFT IN THE DUST
&OR DECADES !MERICA WAS ABLE TO MAKE PROGRESS
,IMITED
BY ATTRACTING THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST FROM OTHER COUN
TRIES TO ITS UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRIES .OW THAT OTHER
NATIONS EDUCATION SYSTEMS ARE OUTPERFORMING THE 53
SYSTEM AND THEIR ECONOMIES ARE GROWING THERES NO BECAUSE THEY FEEL THE CURRICULUM DOES NOT ADDRESS THEIR
REASON FOR THESE TALENTED INDIVIDUALS TO FORSAKE THEIR INTERESTS AND TALENTS
HOMELAND !S MORE NATIONS KEEP THEIR BEST AND BRIGHT
0OOR SHOWINGS IN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF
EST FROM !MERICAS SHORES )NNOVATION 0ARTNERSHIPS LIKE MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE PERFORMANCE LEAD TO NEW
THE ONE THAT -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT AND -ICRO
ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE
4ECH #OMPUTING ESTABLISHED OFFER A CREATIVE LOCAL SOLU
PERFORMANCE 4EACHERS WANT TO DO WHATS NEEDED TO
TION TO THIS GROWING NATIONAL PROBLEM HELP STUDENTS SUCCEED BUT THERE SIMPLY ARENT ENOUGH
TEACHERS WITH DEGREES IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE TO
TEACH THE ADVANCED COURSES /THERS THOUGH EXPERI
!NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO ENCED TEACHERS LACK THE SPECIlC CONTENT KNOWLEDGE
)MPLICATIONS AND SKILLS TO TEACH A ROBUST MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
CURRICULUM THAT FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING STUDENTS UN
)N A WORLD LIKE THE ONE DESCRIBED IN THIS SCENARIO
DERSTANDING RATHER THAN ROTE MEMORIZATION OF FACTS
THERE ARE ENOUGH RESOURCES TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH AN
AND PROCEDURES #URRENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
hADEQUATEv EDUCATION BUT THAT EDUCATION IS FALLING SHORT
PROGRAMS ARE INSUFlCIENT IN CONTENT AND DESIGN TO HELP
OF THE NEEDS OF BUSINESS 4HIS LEADS BUSINESSES ESPE
TEACHERS ACQUIRE THE CONTENT KNOWLEDGE AND PEDA
CIALLY THOSE WITH NEEDS FOR EMPLOYEES WITH MATHEMAT
GOGICAL SKILLS THEY NEED TO PREPARE THEIR STUDENTS TO
ICS AND SCIENCE KNOW
HOW TO FORM PARTNERSHIPS WITH
COMPETE WITH STUDENTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES
SCHOOLS 4HESE PARTNERSHIPS ARE A DOUBLE
EDGED SWORD
/N ONE HAND THEY BRING INCREASED RESOURCES TO SCHOOLS
AND HELP SCHOOLS BETTER PREPARE STUDENTS TO MOVE INTO
THE HIGH TECH WORK FORCE /N THE OTHER HAND SCHOOLS
MAY EXPERIENCE A LOSS OF CONTROL AS BUSINESS REPRESENTA
TIVES ASSUME POSITIONS ON SCHOOL BOARDS AND INmUENCE
DECISIONS ABOUT CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION (AVING
BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES ON THE SCHOOL BOARD CAUSES
CHANGES IN RELATIONSHIPS AMONG BOARD MEMBERS AND
BETWEEN THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY 4HE BUSINESS
PRESENCE FOCUSES ATTENTION ON INTERNATIONAL COMPETI
TION AND FORCES SCHOOLS TO EMPHASIZE MATHEMATICS AND
SCIENCE 4HIS MAY TEND TO NARROW THE FOCUS OF THE CUR
RICULUM AND CAUSE STUDENTS WHO DO NOT EXCEL IN MATH
EMATICS AND SCIENCE TO LOSE INTEREST IN DISTRICT SCHOOLS
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
)NDICATORS /PTIONS
%VENTS AND TRENDS THAT ARE LIKELY TO SIGNAL THE DEVELOP
3UCCESS FOR -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT IN THIS
MENT OF THIS SCENARIO ARE AS FOLLOWS SCENARIO WILL DEPEND ON THE ABILITY OF DISTRICT LEADERS AT
ALL LEVELS TO hTHINK OUTSIDE THE BOXv &OR EXAMPLE THE
s -ANY SCHOOLS MAKE !90 AND .#," IS PERCEIVED DISTRICT COULD LEARN ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES APPROACHES
AS A SUCCESS TO EDUCATION PARTICULARLY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
s 4HE ECONOMY IMPROVES GENERALLY PERHAPS DUE EDUCATION AND INITIATE A TEACHER AND STUDENT EXCHANGE
TO CHANGES IN 3OCIAL 3ECURITY -EDICARE AND PROGRAM WITH THESE COUNTRIES 4HE EXCHANGE PROGRAM
-EDICAID ANDOR TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS COULD BE ONE PART OF A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
IN THE FUEL CELL INDUSTRY LEADING TO A REDUCTION IN PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES A VARIETY OF WAYS FOR TEACHERS TO
!MERICAN DEPENDENCE ON OIL FOR ENERGY ACQUIRE THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THEY NEED TO TEACH IN
WAYS THAT INCREASE STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF THE CRITI
s 53 4)--3 SCORES CONTINUE TO LAG BY A SMALL CAL CONCEPTS IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
PERCENTAGE BEHIND OTHER COUNTRIES 4O STRENGTHEN ITS CAPACITY TO RESPOND TO CHANGING
CONDITIONS AND TO CONNECT WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS
s #ONTINUED CONCERNS ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY LEND
AND BUSINESSES THE SCHOOL BOARD COULD ENGAGE IN A
SUPPORT TO THE NOTION OF A NATIONAL CURRICULUM
SERIES OF RETREATS !T THESE RETREATS THE BOARD WOULD
s #ONCERNS ABOUT STUDENTS MATHEMATICAL AND DEVELOP STRATEGIES THAT WILL POSITION THEIR SCHOOL
TECHNICAL SKILLS BEGIN TO DOMINATE THE POLITICAL DISTRICT AS AN ATTRACTIVE POTENTIAL BUSINESS PARTNER 4HE
RHETORIC IN MUCH THE SAME WAY AS CONCERNS ABOUT BOARD ALSO SHOULD CLARIFY ITS MISSION ROLE AND OPER
LITERACY DO TODAY ATING PRINCIPLES ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR INDUCTING
NEW MEMBERS AND ENSURE THAT THE COLLECTIVE AGENDA
s 3UPPORT FOR TESTING AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL INCREASES FOCUSES ON SERVING ALL STUDENTS WELL -OST IMPORTANTLY
s "USINESSES PRESS FOR MORE INVOLVEMENT IN THE BOARD SHOULD REGULARLY DEMONSTRATE THAT IT IS
EDUCATION PARTICULARLY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EQUALLY COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING PARENTS AND STUDENTS
AND FORM PARTNERSHIPS WITH SCHOOLS WITH INTERESTS AND TALENTS IN OTHER ACADEMIC AREAS
"ECAUSE TESTING WILL BE PERVASIVE IN THIS SCENARIO
s "USINESSES RECEIVE INCENTIVES FROM FEDERAL OR STATE DISTRICT LEADERS SHOULD EDUCATE STAFF AND COMMUNITY
GOVERNMENT FOR PARTNERING WITH SCHOOLS ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF STANDARDIZED SUMMATIVE ASSESS
MENTS 4HEY ALSO SHOULD ENSURE THAT TEACHERS USE
s 53 COLLEGE STUDENT ENROLLMENT IN MATHEMATICS
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS TO GAUGE AND PROMOTE STUDENT
SCIENCE AND RELATED MAJORS DOES NOT INCREASE SUF
PROGRESS AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS TO MEASURE THE
lCIENTLY TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF BUSINESS
SUCCESS OF THE CURRICULUM RATHER THAN TO NARROW ITS
s #HINA BEGINS TO REAP THE BENElTS OF ITS STUDENTS SCOPE
SUCCESS IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE AS EVIDENCED 4O PROVIDE NEEDED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN
BY #HINAS ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER ALL AREAS AND SPECIlCALLY IN ASSESSMENT MATHEMATICS
INNOVATIONS AND SCIENCE THE DISTRICT COULD DESIGNATE SOMEONE AS A
LIAISON TO HIGHER EDUCATION WHO WOULD ENCOURAGE LOCAL
COLLEGES TO DEVELOP AND OFFER FAST
TRACK ONLINE AND
WEEKEND COURSES FOR TEACHERS $ISTRICTS MIGHT SUPPORT
THIS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EFFORT BY OFFERING RECERTI
lCATION CREDITS BONUSES AND OTHER INCENTIVES
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
3TATE %DUCATION !GENCY !MPLE
3CENARIO
$EEP #AUSES
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
#ONTROL OF ,EARNING
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT THE TRADITIONAL INSTI
TUTIONAL CONl GURATIONS THAT HAVE DEl NED !MERICAN
2ESOURCES
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OVER THE PAST CENTURY REMAIN THE
h2OADSIDE #HAIN
PRIMARY FORM OF SCHOOLING AND RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS ARE -OTELv
INADEQUATE AS A RESULT OF THE FOLLOWING
,IMITED
s 3IGNIl CANTLY DIMINISHED RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLING
DUE TO INCREASING PRESSURE ON THE NATIONAL
ECONOMY TO PAY FOR HEALTHCARE AND PENSIONS FOR
h2OADSIDE #HAIN -OTELv
THE AGING POPULATION AND TO MEET THE COUNTRYS
4IME
INSATIABLE NEED FOR ENERGY
0LACE -IDDLETON 53!
s 4HE FAILURE OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT
3CENE %$
-/.4(,9 COVERS EDUCATION
RELATED
OF TO DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE STUDENT
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE WESTERN STATES )N ADDITION TO
ACHIEVEMENT FOR STUDENTS FROM (ISPANIC AND
LEGISLATIVE UPDATES AND NEWS ARTICLES FROM AROUND THE
OTHER %NGLISH
,ANGUAGE ,EARNER GROUPS AND SOCIO
NATION IT RUNS OP
EDS AND FEATURE SECTIONS &OR THE
ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SUBGROUPS
PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS AN %$
-/.4(,9 REPORTER
s ! STRONG FEDERAL PRESENCE IN !MERICAN SCHOOLS HAS ATTENDED -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS BOARD
INCLUDING A NATIONAL CURRICULUM NATIONAL MEETINGS 2ECENTLY SHE HAS WATCHED BOARD MEMBERS
ASSESSMENT AND SANCTIONS FOR ALL SCHOOLS FAILING STRUGGLE WITH SOME TOUGH DECISIONS 4ONIGHT THE BOARD
TO MAKE ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS REQUIRING THEM APPROVES A PLAN TO ELIMINATE ALL NON
CORE ACADEMIC
TO ALLOCATE ALL RESOURCES TO THE CORE ACADEMIC CLASSES PROGRAMS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
SUBJECTS FROM THE BUDGET IN RESPONSE TO NEW MANDATES IN THE
REAUTHORIZATION OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT
,IKE TRAVELERS STAYING IN TODAYS ROADSIDE CHAIN .#," 3HE EXPECTS THE ANNOUNCEMENT TO SET OFF
MOTEL PARENTS AND STUDENTS IN THIS WORLD WILL KNOW SOME l REWORKS AND THINKS THAT TOMORROW HER EDITOR
WHAT TO EXPECT 3TUDENTS RECEIVE A RELIABLE STANDARD
WILL HAVE ONE SIZZLING STORY
IZED EDUCATION WITHOUT ANY FRILLS
!T THEIR &EBRUARY MEETING THE -IDDLETON
"OARD OF %DUCATION APPROVED CUTS TO THE n
BUDGET IN A VOTE OF TO ELIMINATING ALL NON
CORE
ACADEMIC CLASSES PROGRAMS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVI
TIES IN -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS SCHOOLS 4HE
DISTRICT EXPECTS AND IS BRACED FOR COMMUNITY OUTRAGE
OVER THIS DRAMATIC DECISION /VER PARENTS WERE IN
ATTENDANCE FOR THE BOARD VOTE
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
&OLLOWING THE 0LEDGE OF !LLEGIANCE "OARD 0RESI 4HE %#0! WAS BASED ON RESEARCH EVIDENCE THAT
DENT -ICHELLE #OULEY MADE THE OPENING COMMENTS LOW PERFORMING SCHOOLS MUST FOCUS THEIR EFFORTS IF
DESCRIBING THE STATE OF THE DISTRICT THEY ARE TO SUCCEED !ND 3ENATOR +WAME 7ASHING
TON CHAMPION OF THE BILL EXPRESSED ITS UNDERLYING
7E HAVE REACHED A POINT WHEN WE AS A BOARD ARE PRINCIPLES PRETTY WELL WHEN HE SAID h,ETS GET ALL KIDS
FACED WITH SOME OF THE TOUGHEST DECISIONS WE WILL READING AT GRADE LEVEL AND ABLE TO ADD AND SUBTRACT
MAKE IN OUR TERMS 4HE STAFF STUDENTS AND PARENTS BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHERv 4HE PROVISIONS OF %#0!
OF -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT HAVE WORKED EXTREMELY ARE TO BE IMPLEMENTED DURING THE n SCHOOL
HARD TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING FOR ALL STUDENTS YEAR "ECAUSE WE DID NOT MEET THE DISTRICT !90 GOALS
3INCE WHEN ) WAS lRST ELECTED TO THE BOARD WE UNDER .#," THE NEW LAW REQUIRES US TO USE ALL OF
HAVE MADE INCREDIBLE PROGRESS &OR EXAMPLE OVER THE OUR FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING FOR ACADEMICS 4HAT
PAST FEW YEARS OUR PERFORMANCE DATA HAS HELD STEADY IS WHY WE ARE CUTTING ALL NON CORE ACADEMIC CLASSES
OR SLIGHTLY IMPROVED 3EEKING GREATER IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAMS AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 4HIS IS THE
IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT MEASUREMENTS WE PROVIDED HARDEST DECISION ) HAVE MADE IN MY CAREER AND )
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO TEACHERS ON #LASSROOM BELIEVE THAT ) SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
)NSTRUCTION THAT 7ORKS FOR %NGLISH ,ANGUAGE ,EARN
ERS 7E ALSO BEGAN REMEDIAL PROGRAMS AND AN AFTER *UAN :AMORA THE BOARDS MOST VETERAN MEMBER
SCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAM (OWEVER AS YOU KNOW WE THANKED #OULEY FOR HER COURAGE IN ADDRESSING THE
HAVE NOT SUCCEEDED IN MAKING THE KINDS OF IMPROVE AUDIENCE IN SUCH A FORTHRIGHT MANNER (IS FURTHER COM
MENTS NEEDED FOR SOME OF THE MORE RECENTLY ARRIVED MENTS FOLLOW
STUDENTS IN OUR DISTRICT SPECIlCALLY OUR STUDENTS WHO
) SHARE YOUR CONCERN FOR THE GRAVITY OF THIS DECISION
ARE (ISPANIC OTHER %NGLISH ,ANGUAGE ,EARNERS AND
7E AS A BOARD HAVE DEDICATED MANY HOURS TO FULLY
THOSE FROM LOWER SOCIO ECONOMIC SITUATIONS !L
UNDERSTANDING ALL OF THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO MAKE
THOUGH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE MAJOR REVISIONS
THIS DECISION INCLUDING TALKING TO LEGISLATORS AND TO
TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISIONS IN .#," FOR SPECIAL
YOU 7E ARE WELL AWARE THAT THIS DECISION IS NOT A
NEEDS STUDENTS IN THEY DID NOT GRANT THE SAME
FAVORABLE ONE FOR THE COMMUNITY OF -IDDLETON AND )
LATITUDE FOR OTHER SUBGROUPS AND -IDDLETON HAS
SUSPECT WE WILL HEAR THAT SENTIMENT FROM THE AUDI
CONTINUED TO STRUGGLE TO MEET OUR !DEQUATE 9EARLY
ENCE TONIGHT
0ROGRESS !90 TARGETS
!FTER SEVERAL OTHER BOARD MEMBERS COMMENTED
!S YOU ALSO ARE AWARE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR .#,"
ON THE ISSUE THE BOARD HEARD TWO HOURS OF PUBLIC
WAS FURTHER CUT IN WHEN EDUCATION WHICH ONCE
COMMENTS #OMMUNITY MEMBERS EXPRESSED CONCERNS
DOMINATED THE COUNTRYS POLICY AGENDA WAS THOR
THAT RANGED FROM ISSUES RELATED TO IMMIGRANT STUDENTS
OUGHLY ECLIPSED BY HEALTH CARE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY !N UNIDENTIlED PARENT ASKED
ISSUES !ND NOW WE FACE A SERIOUS NEW CHALLENGE
WHAT IT WOULD MEAN TO IGNORE THE FEDERAL REQUIREMENT
THE NEW 3ECRETARY OF %DUCATION $R -ANUEL
0RESIDENT #OULEY RESPONDED THAT BECAUSE OF INCREAS
'ARCIA SENT US A LETTER ELABORATING ON THE REQUIRE
ING NUMBERS OF SUBGROUP STUDENTS WHO NEED ADDITIONAL
MENTS OF THE REAUTHORIZATION OF .#," TITLED THE
ASSISTANCE AND THE SUPPLEMENTAL FEDERAL FUNDS AVAILABLE
%VERY #HILD 0ROlCIENT !CT %#0! ENACTED IN LATE
TO SUPPORT THEM IT WOULD NOT SERVE THE DISTRICT WELL TO
&OR THOSE OF YOU IN THE AUDIENCE WHO ARENT
TRY TO CREATE A BUDGET BASED SOLELY ON LOCAL RESOURCES
FAMILIAR WITH THIS HISTORY LET ME lLL YOU IN
4HE COMMUNITYS TAXPAYERS WHO DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN
IN THE SCHOOLS WOULD NOT BE LIKELY TO SUPPORT THE NECES
SARY TAX INCREASES
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
!BOUT ONE THIRD OF THE SPEAKERS WERE -IDDLETON !MPLE
TEACHERS WHO PROVIDED THE MOST ARDENT ARGUMENT
AGAINST THE PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS -IDDLETON 4EACH
ERS !SSOCIATION -4! MEMBERS mANKED !SSOCIATION
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
0RESIDENT -ARY 3HELTON AS SHE ADDRESSED THE BOARD #ONTROL OF ,EARNING
DENOUNCING THEM FOR THEIR hPOOR lSCAL PLANNINGv AND
2ESOURCES
THE IMPACT ON STAFlNG !N EXCERPT FROM HER REMARKS IS
BELOW h2OADSIDE #HAIN
-OTELv
4HE PROPOSED ELIMINATION OF CLASSES FOR ART PHYSICAL
EDUCATION AND MUSIC WILL RESULT IN A WORKFORCE RE
,IMITED
DUCTION OF TEN PERCENT OF OUR CERTIlCATED STAFF -OST
OF OUR TEACHERS WHO ARE ALSO MEMBERS OF THE -IDDLE
TON COMMUNITY WILL BE UNEMPLOYED BY *UNE OF THIS -Y OLDEST DAUGHTER !NNALIESE GRADUATED WITH
YEAR /N BEHALF OF -4! ) SAY THAT THIS IS PREPOSTER
HONORS FROM -IDDLETON (IGH 3CHOOL IN 3HE
OUS PARTICULARLY AS ) THINK ABOUT THE MANY TIMES YOU WAS THE !SSOCIATED 3TUDENT "ODY PRESIDENT AND WAS
AS A BOARD HAVE VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO IMPLEMENT THE VARSITY SWIM TEAM CAPTAIN "ECAUSE OF HER EDUCA
REMEDIAL PROGRAMS FOR OUR SUBGROUPS EVEN WHEN THE TION IN -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT SHE NOW ATTENDS
BUDGET WAS IN CRISIS 2HODE )SLAND )NSTITUTE OF 4ECHNOLOGY ) NOW HAVE
TWIN BOYS WHO WILL BE ENTERING lRST GRADE NEXT YEAR
-OST OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMENTED ON ) ASK YOU HOW CAN YOU EXPECT PARENTS TO CHOOSE TO
THE LONG LIST OF PROGRAM CUTS THAT INCLUDED ART MUSIC STAY IN A DISTRICT THAT PROVIDES A WORSE EDUCATION OVER
AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES ALL AFTER
SCHOOL PRO
TIME
GRAMS AND ALL SPORTS PROGRAMS -S "RITTANY #LARK
SON
7ONG -IDDLETON (IGH 3CHOOL 04! PRESIDENT "UT *ASON !NDERSON PRESIDENT OF THE -IDDLETON
EXPRESSED OUTRAGE ABOUT THE DISTRICT
WIDE REMEDIAL "ANK PRESENTED A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT FROM THAT OF
%NGLISH PROGRAM FOR NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT STUDENTS EARLIER SPEAKERS 7HEN HE MADE HIS COMMENTS HE WAS
WHICH WAS NOT REPRESENTED ON THE CUT LIST CALLING THE IN THE MINORITY
INCREASE OF PROGRAMS FOR SOCIO
ECONOMICALLY DISADVAN
/UR COMMUNITY WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO MOVE INTO THE
TAGED NON
7HITE STUDENTS hREVERSE RACISMv #LARKSON
FUTURE SUCCESSFULLY IF ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
7ONGS COMMENTS APPEAR HERE CAN READ AND DO MATHEMATICS WELL 7E CANNOT AFFORD
!S IT IS MY DAUGHTER -ORGAN CANNOT EVEN GET INTO TO HAVE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS AND EVEN GRADUATES IN
AN !0 CHEMISTRY CLASS THIS YEAR BECAUSE SHE DID NOT -IDDLETON WHO CANNOT ACQUIRE AND KEEP A DECENT
MAKE THE LOTTERY 3HE WAS NUMBER AND THE CUTOFF PAYING JOB ) SUPPORT THESE REQUIREMENTS AT LEAST
WAS STUDENTS .OW IT IS LESS LIKELY THAT OUR BEST UNTIL WE CAN DELIVER THE BASICS FOR ALL KIDS
STUDENTS WILL GET THE QUALITY EDUCATION THEY NEED TO /THER COMMUNITY MEMBERS EXPRESSED CONCERN
GET INTO COLLEGE WHILE WE SPEND OUR FEW PRECIOUS ABOUT THE ELIMINATION OF THE DISTRICT SPORTS PROGRAMS
DOLLARS ON STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT !MERICAN -IDDLETON *UNIOR (IGH 3CHOOL PARENT -R *OHN 3MITH
CITIZENS AND DONT EVEN PAY PROPERTY TAXES ARGUED FOR KEEPING AT LEAST THE SPORTS PROGRAMS AND SAID
-S #AREY 7ILLIAMS MOTHER OF A -IDDLETON %L
h-Y SON 0ETER IS JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER JUNIOR HIGH KID
EMENTARY 3CHOOL STUDENT EXPRESSED A GREATER CONCERN ) CAN GET HIM UP AND TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY BECAUSE OF
FOR THE INEQUITY BETWEEN THE EDUCATION HER OLDEST SPORTS 7ITHOUT FOOTBALL ) DONT KNOW HOW THE TEACH
DAUGHTER RECEIVED AND WHAT SHE BELIEVES HER KINDER
ERS ARE GOING TO KEEP STUDENTS LIKE MY SON FOCUSEDv
GARTENER WILL GET UNDER %#0! 3HE TOLD THE STORY THAT 4HE -IDDLETON (IGH 3CHOOL 2AIDERS HEAD FOOTBALL
FOLLOWS COACH WASNT HESITANT TO LABEL THE DECISION A MISTAKE IN
HIS REMARKS
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
) HAVE BEEN A FOOTBALL COACH IN THIS DISTRICT FOR OVER ATTENDING TO THE NEEDS OF CURRENT STUDENTS -IDDLETON
THIRTY YEARS 3PORTS ARE CRITICAL FOR MANY STUDENTS ) 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF CURRICULUM
CAN TELL YOU THAT IF HALF OF OUR VARSITY TEAM WAS NOT AND INSTRUCTION $R 6ICTOR 0ADIA SAID h7E ARE USED TO
INVOLVED IN FOOTBALL OR SOME OTHER SPORT THEY WOULD BUILDING THE AIRPLANE WHILE WE ARE mYING IT (OWEVER
PROBABLY DROP OUT OF SCHOOL OR BE INVOLVED IN DRUGS ) EVERY TIME WE CHANGE DIRECTIONS WE LOSE GROUND /UR
DONT MEAN THAT OUR TEAM IS FULL OF DERELICTS BUT YOU CHALLENGE IS TO CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS WHILE AT THE
ALL REMEMBER HIGH SCHOOL +IDS NEED DISCIPLINE AND A SAME TIME IMPLEMENTING HUGE CHANGES ) APPLAUD 3U
SENSE OF BELONGING THAT THEY WONT GET FROM SCHOOL IF PERINTENDENT -ARTINEZ AND THE BOARD FOR BEING PROAC
THERE ARE NO SPORTS ) THINK THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE TIVE AND FOR RESPONDING IMMEDIATELY TO THE SECRETARYS
MEMOv
! $ISTRICT #AUGHT IN THE -IDDLE 4HE OTHER MAJOR PROVISION IN %#0! IS AN ANNUAL
ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES n 5NDER .#,"
(OW DID THE DISTRICT GET TO THIS POINT 4O RECAP
EACH STATE HAD ITS OWN ACCOUNTABILITY PROGRAM INCLUD
RECENT EVENTS ON *ANUARY THE 5NITED 3TATES
ING STANDARDIZED STATE ASSESSMENTS APPROVED BY THE
$EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION 3ECRETARY $R -ANUEL
5NITED 3TATES $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION 53$/%
'ARCIA SENT A MEMORANDUM TO ALL STATE AND DISTRICT
4HE 53$/% PLANS TO EXPAND THE CURRENT NATIONAL AS
OFlCIALS ANNOUNCING THE REAUTHORIZATION OF .#,"
SESSMENT PROGRAM .ATIONAL !SSESSMENT OF %DUCATIONAL
AND THE MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISIONS OF THE ACT
0ROGRESS .!%0 FROM TESTING TH
TH
AND TH
3ECRETARY 'ARCIA OPENED THE MEMO BY SAYING h4HE
GRADE STUDENTS IN READING AND MATHEMATICS TO TESTING
COURSE OUR COUNTRY HAS UNDERTAKEN TO IMPROVE STUDENT
RDnTH GRADE STUDENTS IN READING WRITING MATHEMAT
ACHIEVEMENT FOR EVERY CHILD AS WE PREPARE FUTURE
ICS AND SCIENCE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS 4HIS STREAMLINED
GENERATIONS OF !MERICANS IS A NOBLE AND WORTHY ONE
APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT WILL SAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
!LTHOUGH WE HAVE IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION
OVER THE COST OF EACH STATE CREATING AND IMPLEMENTING
FOR MANY OF OUR STUDENTS WE HAVE YET TO ACHIEVE THE
ITS OWN UNIQUE TEST
GOAL OF LEAVING NO CHILD BEHINDv
4HIS NEW PROVISION WILL HAVE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS
4HE ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISIONS OF %#0! ARE STRIN
FOR STATES THAT HAVE ADOPTED A STATE ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
GENT AND STANDARDIZED ON A NATIONAL LEVEL 3ECRETARY
THAT ONLY TESTS STUDENTS AT PARTICULAR GRADE LEVELS
'ARCIAS MEMO OUTLINED THE MAJOR PROVISIONS WHICH
$ISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE 5NITED 3TATES WILL INCREAS
INCLUDE ADHERENCE TO THE LONG
DEBATED NATIONAL CUR
INGLY lND THEMSELVES CAUGHT BETWEEN THE LOCAL NEEDS
RICULUM THAT HAS JUST BEEN COMPLETED A MANDATORY
OF THEIR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND THE NEW
FEDERAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES n
FEDERAL MANDATES IN THE %#0! THE REAUTHORIZA
AND NEW SANCTIONS FOR SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS THAT CONTIN
TION OF THE .#,"!
UE TO FAIL TO MEET !90 4HE GOAL OF THE RE
AUTHORIZATION
4HE MOST CHALLENGING ASPECT OF %#0! WILL BE
OF .#," ACCORDING TO 3ECRETARY 'ARCIA IS TO ENSURE
THE hDRACONIANv SANCTIONS FOR DISTRICTS LIKE -IDDLETON
THAT BY hEVERY CHILD IS PROlCIENTv
THAT HAVE FAILED TO MEET THEIR DISTRICT !90 GOALS &OR
%#0! INCLUDES A NATIONAL CURRICULUM FOR CORE
EXAMPLE IN ADDITION TO FOCUSING ALL FEDERAL AND STATE
SUBJECTS READING WRITING MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND
FUNDING ON CORE ACADEMIC CLASSES DISTRICTS ARE REQUIRED
SOCIAL STUDIES !FTER YEARS IN COMMITTEE #ONGRESS
TO ACCELERATE LEARNING FOR SUBGROUPS OF STUDENTS WHO
WAS lNALLY ABLE TO AGREE ON THE BASIC CURRICULUM WHICH
DO NOT MEET !90 4HIS MEANS THAT AS DISTRICTS REDUCE
STATES AND DISTRICTS ARE EXPECTED TO ADOPT IN -AY AND
PROGRAMS LIKE ART MUSIC AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION THEY
FULLY IMPLEMENT BY *UNE 4HIS WILL LIKELY BE
WILL BE REQUIRED TO INCREASE SPENDING ON PROGRAMS THAT
CHALLENGING FOR DISTRICTS THAT HAVE LESS THAN SIX MONTHS
IMPROVE LEARNING FOR OUR NATIONS UNDERSERVED POPULA
TO DISMANTLE THEIR CURRENT CURRICULUM AND ASSEMBLE A
TION
NEW CURRICULAR INFRASTRUCTURE WHILE AT THE SAME TIME
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
!NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO !MPLE
)MPLICATIONS
)N THE WORLD DESCRIBED IN THIS SCENARIO THERE ARE
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
LIMITED RESOURCES FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WHILE ENROLL
#ONTROL OF ,EARNING
MENT OF NON
%NGLISH
SPEAKING STUDENTS AND OTHERS
2ESOURCES
NEEDING EXTRA HELP IS INCREASING "UT EVEN MORE DIF
lCULT FOR THE DISTRICT AND ITS "OARD ARE THE NEW CON
h2OADSIDE #HAIN
-OTELv
STRAINTS ON THEIR ABILITY TO RESPOND CREATED BY MAN
DATED NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENTS 4HERE WILL ,IMITED
BE A HUGE TURNOVER IN THE TEACHING STAFF lRST BECAUSE
OF THE ELIMINATION OF ALL NON
ACADEMIC COURSES AND
SECOND BECAUSE OF THE INHOSPITABLE TEACHING ENVIRON
MENT WITH KIDS CONSTRAINED TO ONLY ACADEMIC CLASSES
THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL DAY AND WITH AN INCREASED EM
PHASIS ON PREPARING FOR AND TAKING ASSESSMENTS 3OME
TEACHERS WILL FEEL TRAPPED THE ONLY ESCAPE WOULD BE
TO MOVE AWAY AND THEIR RESENTMENT WILL ADD TO LOW
MORALE 4O ADD TO THE IMMEDIATE BURDEN TEACHERS WILL
NEED TO GEAR UP TO ADOPT THE NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
WHICH MAY REQUIRE THEM TO MASTER NEW KNOWLEDGE AND
SKILLS
4HE COMMUNITY AND ESPECIALLY PARENTS ALSO FEEL
TRAPPED #OLLEGES CONTINUE TO SEEK STUDENTS WITH A
BROAD RANGE OF EXPERIENCES OUTSIDE THE ACADEMIC CUR
RICULUM "USINESSES SEEK EMPLOYEES WITH WORK AND LIFE
VALUES THAT GO BEYOND SIMPLY FOCUSING ON PASSING TESTS
IN ACADEMIC CONTENT 4HE BRIGHT SPOTS WILL BE IF lNALLY
NO CHILD IS LEFT BEHIND UNABLE TO READ AND BE FULLY
EMPLOYED ABOVE SUBSISTENCE LEVEL FOR LACK OF THE BASIC
SKILLS 4HIS COULD BE SEEN AS AN ONEROUS BUT NECESSARY
RITE OF PASSAGE INTO A NEW FUTURE WHEN ALL OF !MERICAS
KIDS ARE PREPARED TO FULLY PARTICIPATE IN THE SOCIETY
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
)NDICATORS /PTIONS
%VENTS AND TRENDS THAT COULD SIGNAL THE DEVELOPMENT )N ORDER TO SURVIVE IN THIS SCENARIO THE LOCAL
OF THIS SCENARIO INCLUDE THESE SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL NEED TO BE HIGHLY CREATIVE IN HOW IT
MANAGES ITS TEACHER WORKFORCE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION
s #ONTINUED FAILURE OF SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS TO MOVE OF THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND HOW IT UNDERSTANDS
NUMBERS OF THEIR CHILDREN TO PROlCIENCY LEVELS AND INTERPRETS SUCCESS FOR ITS CONSTITUENCIES )F IT SIMPLY
ESPECIALLY SPECIAL GROUPS KNUCKLES UNDER TO THE NEW MANDATES AND CARRIES THEM
s !N INCREASE IN IMMIGRANT AND OTHER AT
RISK OUT WITH STOICISM THE WORST OF THE IMPLICATIONS WILL BE
STUDENTS IN SCHOOL ENROLLMENT lGURES TRUE )F INSTEAD IT UNDERTAKES SOME VERSION OF A 37/4
3TRENGTHS 7EAKNESSES /PPORTUNITIES AND 4HREATS
s 2ESEARCH
BASED LINKS BETWEEN SPECIlC ANALYSIS AND THEN BUILDS A STRONG CREATIVE PLAN TO MAIN
WELL
DElNED CURRICULA AND GAINS IN STUDENT TAIN BALANCE WHILE STILL MOVING THE SUBGROUPS TOWARD
ACHIEVEMENT PROlCIENCY SURVIVAL AND A RESTORATION OF A FULL BALANCED
EDUCATION IS ATTAINABLE )N FACT HAVING FACED A CRISIS
s 3TRONGER PUBLIC FAITH IN ASSESSMENTS AS INDICATIVE
POINT AND HAVING PREVAILED SHOULD RESULT IN A FAR BETTER
OF A SCHOOLS ACCOMPLISHMENT
SYSTEM THAN BEFORE
s #ONTINUING LACK OF A @CREDIBLE RESEARCH BASE TO "RINGING PARENTS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VARIOUS
SUPPORT THE VALUE OF NON
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES GROUPS WITHIN THE DISTRICT INTO MUCH CLOSER INVOLVE
MENT IN BOTH DETERMINING THE DIRECTIONS BUT ALSO AS
s &AILURES OF LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS TO ASSURE THEIR AUXILIARY RESOURCES IS A VALUABLE OPTION $OING THE
COMMUNITIES OF THEIR ABILITY TO MANAGE THE SCHOOL SAME FOR BUSINESS CAN ALSO HAVE HUGE PAYOFFS 0ARENTS
TOWARD HIGHER STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND BUSINESSES CAN BE CRITICAL TO SHAPING AFTER SCHOOL
s )NCREASING FRUSTRATION OF EDUCATORS AND PARENTS WEEKEND AND SUMMER PROGRAMS TO ENRICH THE IMPOV
WITH DISCREPANCIES IN CURRICULA ACROSS SCHOOLS ERISHED CURRICULUM 4HEY CAN ALSO HELP MOTIVATE THOSE
DISTRICTS AND STATES STUDENTS WHO HAVE THE LONGEST DISTANCE TO PROlCIENCY
!RRANGING TEACHER SCHEDULES TO ALLOW A BALANCE OF
s #OLLEGES AND BUSINESSES REFUSING TO CONTINUE WHOLE
CLASS INSTRUCTION AND INDIVIDUALIZED WORK WITH
REMEDIATION FOR ENROLLEES OR NEW EMPLOYEES STUDENTS IN NEED WHETHER OF BASICS OR ADVANCED PROJ
ECTS IS ALSO AN OPTION )N RESPONSE TO THIS SCENARIO IT IS
IMPORTANT TO OPEN THE DOORS TO JOINT PROBLEM SOLVING
RATHER THAN HUNKER DOWN DEFENSIVELY
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY !MPLE
3CENARIO h"ED AND "REAKFAST
#OUNTRY )NNv
$EEP #AUSES
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
#ONTROL OF ,EARNING
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT THE TRADITIONAL INSTI
TUTIONAL CONl GURATIONS THAT HAVE DEl NED SCHOOLING
2ESOURCES
SCHOOLS DISTRICTS STATE EDUCATION AGENCIES HAVE
DEVOLVED INTO NEW FORMS OF SCHOOLING THAT ARE CON
TROLLED MORE DIRECTLY BY THE LEARNER )N ADDITION THERE
ARE ABUNDANT RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR EDUCATION 4HIS ,IMITED
DEVOLUTION OCCURRED OVER THE COURSE OF A DECADE AS A
RESULT OF THE FOLLOWING
h"ED AND "REAKFAST #OUNTRY )NNv
s /VERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF THE FAILURE OF THE 4IME
.O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT OF TO ACHIEVE 0LACE -IDDLETON 53!
ITS INTENDED OUTCOME ENSURING HIGH
QUALITY
3CENE &OR THE PAST FEW MONTHS AN %$
EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN REGARDLESS OF ETHNICITY
-/.4(,9 REPORTER HAS ROUTINELY ATTENDED
RACE SOCIO
ECONOMIC STATUS EDUCATIONAL
-IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS BOARD MEETINGS 4ONIGHT
BACKGROUND OR EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS
THE BOARD APPROVES ITS l RST
EVER MARKETING DIRECTOR
s #ONGRESSES DECISION TO hGIVE BACKv TO POSITION 4HE REPORTER IS INTRIGUED GIVEN THE BOARDS
STATES THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OVER PREVIOUS PATTERN OF KEEPING A RELATIVELY LOW PROl LE
EDUCATION FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL GRASS ROOTS EFFORTS 4HE DISTRICT HAS ALWAYS RELEASED TEST DATA AND
BY MODERATES WHO HAVE GROWN IN NUMBERS AND ANNUAL REPORTS BUT IT HAS NEVER BEEN INTERESTED IN
POLITICAL CLOUT PUBLICLY POINTING l NGERS OR SERVING UP KUDOS 4HE
REPORTER THINKS THERE IS MORE TO THE STORY AND WANTS
s 3TEADY GROWTH IN THE ECONOMY PARTICULARLY AS TO DIG DEEPER WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS BOARD UP TO
EVIDENCED IN NEW JOBS HE WONDERS AND WHAT WILL IT MEAN TO -IDDLETONS
s 'REATER PUBLIC WILLINGNESS TO FUND EDUCATION PARENTS AND STUDENTS
DUE TO THE POSITIVE PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF NEW /N -AY IN AN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE THE
SCHOOLING OPTIONS SUCH AS ENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SEVEN
MEMBER -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT "OARD AP
SCHOOLS PROVED THE HIRING OF #ORBIN !SSOCIATES TO PROVIDE
,IKE OWNERS OF A BED AND BREAKFAST THAT PROVIDES VA
CONSULTATIVE SERVICES TO THE DISTRICT #ORBIN !SSOCI
CATIONERS WITH A UNIQUE AND OFTEN CUSTOMIZED COUNTRY ATES IS A NATIONAL l RM THAT HAS m OURISHED SINCE
INN EXPERIENCE SCHOOLS CATER TO FAMILIES WHO WANT AN WHEN STATES PASSED TUITION
CREDIT PROGRAMS 4HEY
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE THAT IS A LITTLE OUT OF THE ORDI
SPECIALIZE IN ADVISING TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS
NARY BUT STILL OFFERS ALL ON HOW TO BETTER MARKET THEIR SCHOOLS IN WHAT HAS
THE BASIC AMENITIES BECOME A HIGHLY COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT !LTHOUGH
&AMILIES l ND EXACTLY THE BOARD AND DISTRICT OFl CIALS AGREE THAT THEY NEED TO
WHAT THEYRE LOOKING l ND NEW WAYS TO hSELLv THE MANY PROGRAMS THEY NOW
FOR AS THEY SELECT FROM OFFER SOME PARENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO
A WIDE RANGE OF AP
ATTENDED THE BOARD MEETING WERE OUTRAGED DESCRIBING
PEALING OPTIONS THE DISTRICT AS hSELLING OUTv
!BOUT PARENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS AT
TENDED THE BOARD MEETING ON 7EDNESDAY NIGHT AND
A SMALL BUT VOCAL GROUP AMONG THEM DIDNT HOLD BACK
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
WHEN GIVEN THE CHANCE TO SPEAK #HARGING THAT THE STATE WITHOUT RESORTING TO HIRING MARKETING AGENTS
DISTRICT WAS ABANDONING ITS FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE AS A TO PUT A SPIN ON THE MANY GOOD PROGRAMS WE HAVE
PUBLIC EDUCATION INSTITUTION PREPARING CHILDREN TO WORKED SO HARD TO ESTABLISH
BE EFFECTIVE CITIZENS AND PROMOTING DEMOCRACY THE
3HELTONS COMMENTS RALLIED THOSE OF LIKE MIND BUT
GROUP CRITICIZED THE BOARDS MOTIVATION AND ETHICS
THE NEXT SPEAKER SAW THINGS DIFFERENTLY ,ATICIA (ER
IN WHAT THEY VIEWED AS A DRAMATIC CHANGE IN FUTURE
NANDEZ HAD THIS TO SAY
DIRECTIONS (OWEVER WHILE NOT AS ANIMATED IN VOICING
THEIR OPPOSING OPINIONS SEVERAL OTHER PARENTS SPOKE IN ) AM NOT HERE TO DEBATE A PAST THAT IS GONE ) AM HERE
SUPPORT OF HIRING #ORBIN !SSOCIATES A ,ITTLETOWN
TO ENSURE THAT MY YOUNG CHILDREN WILL HAVE A FUTURE
BASED MARKETING lRM THAT IS TIED TO THE SUCCESS OF -IDDLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
) AM A SINGLE MOTHER OF TWO CHILDREN WHO WILL ATTEND
3AME END DIFFERENT MEANS ,INCOLN (EIGHTS %LEMENTARY )M LIKE A LOT OF OTHER
0OSITIONS FOR AND AGAINST THE DECISION SPLIT ALONG FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN LUCKY TO lND STEADY EMPLOYMENT
GENERATIONAL LINES WITH OPPOSING VOICES COMING LARGELY IN THIS GOOD ECONOMY BUT ITS STILL A STRUGGLE %VEN
FROM OLDER "ABY
"OOMERS WHILE YOUNGER 'EN
8ERS WITH THE NEW TUITION
CREDIT PROGRAM ) CANT AFFORD TO
AND -ILLENNIALS SUPPORTED THE CHANGE -S -ARY SEND MY TWO SONS TO AN ENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL
3HELTON -IDDLETON 4EACHERS !SSOCIATION -4! EVEN THOUGH )VE HEARD SO MANY GOOD THINGS ABOUT
PRESIDENT AND A VETERAN HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER WAS THE THEM )NSTEAD ) NEED ,INCOLN (EIGHTS TO SUCCEED )F
lRST TO APPROACH THE PODIUM AND ADDRESS THE BOARD -IDDLETON SCHOOLS DONT CHANGE WITH THE TIMES THEN
THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT WILL SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO PUBLIC
)N MY YEARS IN THIS DISTRICT ) HAVE NEVER BEEN SO SCHOOLS WILL BE PARENTS LIKE ME WHO DONT HAVE A
COMPELLED TO SPEAK UP AS ) AM TONIGHT 4ONIGHT ) CHOICE 4HATS WHY WE NEED HELP FROM #ORBIN !S
SPEAK TO YOU AS A PARENT TEACHER AND REPRESENTATIVE SOCIATES -S 3HELTON DOESNT LIKE THE IDEA OF SCHOOLS
OF OTHER TEACHERS IN THIS DISTRICT "OTH OF MY CHILDREN COMPETING FOR STUDENTS BUT THATS TODAYS REALITY
GRADUATED FROM -IDDLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND WENT #ORBIN CAN HELP OUR SCHOOLS INCREASE THEIR ENROLL
ON TO GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE !S A PARENT ) HAVE MENTS AND BRING EVEN MORE RESOURCES INTO INDIVIDUAL
BEEN EXTREMELY PLEASED WITH THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION SCHOOL BUILDINGS SO THAT ALL OF OUR KIDS CAN HAVE A
THEY RECEIVED HERE !S A TEACHER ) AM IN CONTACT GOOD EDUCATION
WITH MANY PARENTS WHO FEEL THE SAME WAY BUT )
ALSO AM AWARE OF PARENTS WHO HAVE LEFT -IDDLETON !FTER AN HOUR AND A HALF OF PUBLIC COMMENTS THE
SCHOOLS 7HY LEAVE 4HESE PARENTS TELL ME THAT THEY BOARD ENGAGED IN A LENGTHY DISCUSSION ABOUT THE ISSUE
MADE THEIR DECISION THE DAY THAT THIS BOARD MADE "OARD 0RESIDENT -ICHELLE #OULEY URGED BOARD MEMBERS
THEIRS WHEN THE BOARD DECIDED NOT TO TESTIFY TO THE TO TAKE A hHARD LOOK AT THE CURRENT REALITY OF SCHOOLINGv
STATE BOARD ABOUT THE TUITION
CREDIT PROGRAM !S YOU 3HE HINTED ABOUT HER OWN POSITION WHEN SHE DESCRIBED
WILL RECALL MANY PARENTS FELT THIS PROGRAM WAS IN
THE NEED FOR -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT TO lND ITS
EQUITABLE AND UNSOUND 4EACHERS AND PARENTS SPOKE hCOMPETITIVE EDGEv DUE TO THE INCREASING NUMBERS OF
BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE BUT BOARD MEMBERS REMAINED ENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS THAT WERE DRAWING MORE
SILENT ) ASK YOU TODAY WHERE WERE YOU )F WE ARE AND MORE STUDENTS FROM THE DISTRICT UNDER THE STATES
GOING TO PRESERVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS WE NEED OUR ELECTED NEW TUITION
CREDIT PROGRAM
LEADERS TO SPEAK UP AND NOT TO TURN OVER YOUR RESPON
!LTHOUGH *UAN :AMORA THE MOST VETERAN MEMBER
SIBILITY TO A PROlT
FOCUSED OUTSIDE AGENCY $OING SO IS OF THE BOARD ACKNOWLEDGED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE
NOTHING SHORT OF GIVING IN AND SELLING OUR SCHOOLS OUT DISTRICTS STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE HIGH SCHOOLS HE RAISED
TO THE MARKET ) URGE YOU TO CONSIDER JOINING WITH US CONCERNS ABOUT THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF THE PLAN AT THE
AND OTHER BOARDS AND ASSOCIATIONS THIS TIME 4OGETHER ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS WHERE ENROLLMENT IS
WE CAN WORK WITH OUR LEGISLATORS TO lND AND IMPLE
DECLINING AT WHAT HE CALLED hAN ALARMING RATEv (E
MENT ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO FUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN OUR SAID h4HE ENROLLMENT DATA THAT $R -ARTINEZ PROVIDED
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
THE BOARD IN OUR WEEKLY UPDATE INDICATE THAT WE HAVE !MPLE
A SERIOUS PROBLEM AND AS A BOARD WE ARE OBLIGATED TO
RESPONDv "OARD MEMBER :AMORA ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE h"ED AND "REAKFAST
#OUNTRY )NNv
PLANS OF -IDDLETONS ,ATINO #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
TO OPEN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN h4HE STATE HAS #ONTROL OF ,EARNING
GIVEN PARENTS THE lNANCIAL MEANS TO PUT THEIR MONEY
2ESOURCES
WHERE THEY WANT THEIR KIDS )F WE WANT TO STAY IN BUSI
NESS WE HAVE TO CREATE SCHOOLS THAT PARENTS WANT THEIR
KIDS TO ATTEND 4O DO THAT WE NEED HELP v HE SAID
0ETER 2OLAND
3MITH BOARD MEMBER AND RETIRED
,IMITED
TEACHER SCOFFED AT :AMORAS IDEAS REFERRING TO THEM
AS THE hEPITOME OF BIG BUSINESS THINKINGv (E SAID h)T
APPEARS TO ME THAT WE ARE STRAYING SO FAR FROM OUR
MISSION THAT WE ARE BECOMING A BUSINESS 4HE NEXT (YBRIDS OF THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS OF A DECADE
THING YOU KNOW WE WILL BE DISCUSSING HOW TO INCREASE EARLIER THESE SCHOOLS ATTRACTIVELY PACKAGE AND MARKET
OUR PROlTS !RE WE ABOUT THE KIDS OR THE DOLLAR v THEIR PROGRAMS ALONG WITH THEIR STUDENTS TEST SCORES
3UPERINTENDENT -ARTINEZ SHARED HER SUPPORT FOR 3OME PERCEIVE THESE SCHOOLS AS PROVIDING A BETTER
THE NEW CONSULTANT CONTRACT IN HER REPORT TO THE BOARD EDUCATION BUT OTHERS ARGUE THAT THE ONLY DIFFERENCE
SAYING h4HE INSTITUTION OF EDUCATION IS CHANGING AS BETWEEN SUCH SCHOOLS AND EXISTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WE SPEAK 4HE QUESTION IS NOT WHETHER OR NOT WE AGREE IS THE MONEY SPENT ON MARKETING 2EGARDLESS OF THE
WITH IT BUT HOW WE WILL PROCEED /VER THE LAST SEVERAL PERCEPTION THE FACT IS THAT THE AVAILABILITY OF TUITION
YEARS WE HAVE ADDED LOTS OF @FRILLS TO OUR PROGRAMS YET CREDITS ALONG WITH MORE SCHOOL CHOICES FOR PARENTS HAS
WE STILL REFUSE TO THINK OF OURSELVES AS COMPETING FOR LED TO A LOSS OF ENROLLMENT IN MANY EXISTING SCHOOLS
FAMILIES &IVE NEW SCHOOLS HAVE OPENED THEIR DOORS AND DISTRICTS )N ADDITION TUITION
CREDIT FUNDING IS NOT
IN OUR COUNTY ALONE SINCE THE STATE PASSED THE TUITION
SUFlCIENT TO COVER THE TUITION AT MOST ENHANCED OP
CREDIT LEGISLATION IN )F WE WANT TO SURVIVE THESE PORTUNITY SCHOOLS LEAVING DISADVANTAGED FAMILIES ONCE
CHANGING TIMES WE HAVE TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN STUDENTS AGAIN WITH LIMITED CHOICES
AT ALL LEVELSv 3IMILAR PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED IN OTHER
STATES AND CONSEQUENTLY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS
4UITION CREDIT CHANGES THE LANDSCAPE ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY HAVE HAD MAJOR DROPS IN EN
4HE STATES ENACTMENT OF TUITION
CREDIT FUNDING ROLLMENT )N THE 5NITED 3TATES $EPARTMENT OF
CAN BE TRACED BACK TO WHEN THE .O #HILD ,EFT %DUCATION REPORTED IN THE ANNUAL .ATIONAL #ENTER ON
"EHIND !CT OF LAY IN RUINS AND THE FEDERAL EDUCA
%DUCATIONAL 3TATISTICS .#%3 REPORT THAT PERCENT
TION BUDGET lNALLY DRIED UP "Y #ONGRESS HAD OF THE STUDENTS IN OUR STATE AGES n ATTENDED PUBLIC
DISTRIBUTED WHAT LITTLE FEDERAL FUNDS REMAINED FOR EDU
SCHOOLS )N CONTRAST TODAY ONLY PERCENT ATTEND
CATION TO STATES THROUGH BLOCK GRANTS AND MOST STATES PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PERCENT ARE ENROLLED IN EN
RESPONDED BY REVISING THEIR EXISTING SCHOOL FUNDING FOR
HANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS ACCORDING TO THE 3EPTEM
MULAS TO PROVIDE TUITION CREDITS FOR INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS BER TH ISSUE OF %DUCATION 7EEK -IDDLETON IS
PROVIDING PARENTS WITH AN ANNUAL CREDIT THAT THEY CAN FACED WITH THE REALITY THAT PARENTS ARMED WITH TUITION
USE TO PAY FOR THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHOICE CREDIT FUNDING ARE OPTING THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF THE DIS
)N OUR STATE TUITION
CREDIT FUNDING DISTRIBUTES TRICT SCHOOLS AND INTO ENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS
MONIES TO PARENTS GUARDIANS AND CAREGIVERS OF CHIL
DREN IN GRADES +n TO ATTEND SCHOOLS OF THEIR CHOICE
WHETHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE 4HESE RESOURCES HAVE
SPURRED THE CREATION OF A NEW COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF
SCHOOLS KNOWN AS hENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLSv
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
(OLES LEFT BY FAILED REFORM ,ASTING REPERCUSSIONS
4HE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT WAS NOT #RITICS OF ENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS ARGUE THAT
REAUTHORIZED WHEN THE TH #ONGRESS CONVENED IN THE GREATER EMPHASIS ON INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS HAS RESULTED
,ARGE NUMBERS OF SCHOOLS HAD FAILED TO MEET THE IN AN UNRAVELING OF PROGRESS FOLLOWING THE "ROWN
!CTS REQUIREMENT FOR !DEQUATE 9EARLY 0ROGRESS !90 VS "OARD OF %DUCATION DECISION TO INTEGRATE SCHOOLS
3TATE GOVERNMENTS FEARED THAT WITHOUT &EDERAL FUNDING WITH STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT RACIAL BACKGROUNDS
THE lNANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN OF MANAGING 0ROFESSOR 'ERALDINE -ELBOURNE FOUNDER OF THE #IVIL
THESE FAILING SCHOOLS WOULD BE OVERWHELMING 4HE ONLY 2IGHTS #ENTER AT .EW (AMPSHIRE )NSTITUTE OF 4ECHNOL
COURSE WAS TO DISREGARD THE !CTS EDICTS )N RESPONSE OGY SAID h4HE SCHOOL CHOICE MOVEMENT SUPPORTED
THE &EDERAL GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO PROVIDE lSCAL RELIEF BY TUITION
CREDIT STATE SPENDING HAS CREATED GREATER
TO STATES -EANWHILE THE PUBLIC OUTCRY BUILT TO A INEQUITY THAN DID THE 3EPARATE #AR !CT OF 4RA
CRESCENDO AND THE HIGHLY
REGARDED 2EPUBLICAN 3ENATOR DITIONAL SCHOOLS ARE OCCUPIED BY LOW SOCIO
ECONOMIC
!LICIA "ARRY CAPTURED THE POPULOUS FRUSTRATION IN MINORITY STUDENTS AND ENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS
WHEN SHE DECLARED h#ONGRESS HAS STRANDED OUR ARE lLLED WITH WHITE STUDENTS WHO HAVE THE ECONOMIC
SCHOOLS BY WITHHOLDING CRITICAL FUNDING !S ONE OF THE MEANS TO @BUY UP THEIR EDUCATIONv
3ENATORS WHO ORIGINALLY VOTED FOR THE !CT ) AM NOW
COMPELLED TO PERSONALLY APOLOGIZE TO MY CONSTITUENTS )RRESISTIBLE APPEAL
AND THE !MERICAN PEOPLEv 3ENATOR "ARRYS COMMENTS $ESPITE THE CONTROVERSY AROUND ENHANCED OPPOR
PORTENDED THE NAIL IN THE COFlN FOR .#," TUNITY SCHOOLS PARENTS WHOSE CHILDREN ATTEND THEM
)N THE NEXT CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN 3AHID 2AON BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE GETTING THE BEST EDUCATION POSSI
RAN SUCCESSFULLY FOR #ONGRESS ON THE PREMISE OF RETURN
BLE FOR THEIR CHILDREN 4IFFANY *ACKSON A PARENT OF THREE
ING CONTROL OVER EDUCATION TO STATE GOVERNMENTS AND CHILDREN WHO ATTEND "EST "ET ,EARNING HAS NOTICED A
OFFERING FAMILIES TUITION
CREDIT FUNDING THAT HE SAID DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE IN HER SON "RANDONS LEARNING SINCE
hWILL EMPOWER THEM TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT HE TRANSFERRED FROM ,EWIS AND #LARK 3CHOOL IN -IDDLE
WHERE THEIR CHILDREN ATTEND SCHOOLv )N HIS FRESHMAN TON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT LAST YEAR h"RANDON NEVER LIKED
YEAR 3ENATOR 2AON WORKED TO PUT CONTROL OVER EDUCA
SCHOOL BEFORE (E STRUGGLED IN EVERY SUBJECT ) USED TO
TION BACK IN THE HANDS OF STATES (E THEN CAMPAIGNED HAVE TO DRAG HIM OUT OF BED EVERY MORNING AND NOW
ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN SUPPORT OF STATES RIGHTS FOR HES EAGER TO GO TO SCHOOL v SAID *ACKSON -S *ACKSON
TUITION
CREDIT FUNDING 4O DATE STATES HAVE PASSED BELIEVES THAT THE mEXIBLE SCHEDULE USE OF TECHNOL
SUCH LEGISLATION OGY AND THE CORE CURRICULUM AT "EST "ET ,EARNING IS
WORKING FOR HER ENTIRE FAMILY h) HAVE THE mEXIBILITY TO
4HE RISE OF EDUCATION CONSUMERISM SCHEDULE SCHOOL BASED ON OUR NEEDS v SHE SAID
7HILE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND FAILED TO MEET ITS IN
*AMES 0IERSON THE FATHER OF TWO FORMER -IDDLE
TENDED OUTCOMES IT DID MANAGE TO PRODUCE A NATIONAL TON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT STUDENTS HAS DIFFERENT REASONS FOR
PREOCCUPATION WITH INDIVIDUAL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT CHOOSING AN ENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL (IS
YEAR
RESULTS THAT SPAWNED MYRIADS OF NEW SCHOOLS THROUGH
OLD DAUGHTER 3AMANTHA AND
YEAR
OLD SON #RAIG NOW
OUT THE 5NITED 3TATES 4ODAY THERE ARE MORE EDUCA
ATTEND THE 3YMMATHIUM 6IRTUAL 3CHOOL h-IDDLETONS
TIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THAN EVER AND PARENTS ARMED WITH SCHOOLS OFFERED A VERY GOOD ENVIRONMENT v SAID 0IERSON
TUITION
CREDIT FUNDING ARE ASSERTING THEIR INDIVIDUAL h4HEY WERE WELL
MAINTAINED AND HAD EXCELLENT TECH
RIGHTS TO SELECT THE SCHOOL OF THEIR CHOICE FOR THEIR CHIL
NOLOGICAL FACILITIES "UT MY WIFE AND ) BOTH TELECOM
DREN MUTE TO JOBS IN -ETROPOLIS AND 3YMMATHIUM 6IRTUAL
3CHOOL OFFERED mEXIBILITY FOR OUR CHILDRENv )N ADDITION
3AMANTHA AND #RAIG RECEIVE A PRESCRIBED LEARNING PLAN
WITH INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION AND HIGHLY QUALIlED
INSTRUCTORS WHO RESIDE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND WORLD
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
2OOM FOR EVERYONE !MPLE
7HILE THE &EDERAL FUNDING FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION HAS
h"ED AND "REAKFAST
BEEN METHODICALLY CUT SINCE THE AVAILABLE #OUNTRY )NNv
RESOURCES FOR THE PLAYERS IN THE -IDDLETON EDUCATION
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
MARKET ARE STILL BRIGHT -IDDLETON LIKE MANY RELATIVELY #ONTROL OF ,EARNING
SMALLER COMMUNITIES IN !MERICA HAS BENElTED FROM
2ESOURCES
AN INmUX OF URBAN MIGRANTS WHO THROUGH TECHNOLOGI
CAL BREAKTHROUGHS CAN ENJOY -IDDLETONS SMALLER TOWN
ATMOSPHERE WHILE STILL MAINTAINING THEIR HIGHER
SALARY
EMPLOYMENT WITH CITY CORPORATIONS -IDDLETONS TAX ,IMITED
BASE HAS GROWN AS A RESULT OF ATTRACTING FAMILIES WITH
CHILDREN (OWEVER THE SAME TECHNOLOGIES THAT ENABLE
PARENTS TO WORK FROM HOME ALSO GIVE THEM ALTERNATIVE
CHOICES FOR EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN 4HE TUITION
CREDIT !NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO
HAS FUELED THE COMPETITION FOR THE ABUNDANT EDUCATION )MPLICATIONS
MONIES AND THE -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT WAS ILL
PRE
4HE IMPLICATIONS FOR -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT
PARED TO DEAL WITH THE COMPETITION h4HE IMPACT OF THE
IN THIS SCENARIO ARE ALL TIED TO THE INCREASING STRAIN OF
ENHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS HAS FORCED -IDDLETON
COMPETITION )N A WORLD LIKE THE ONE DESCRIBED HERE IN
TO TAKE STOCK OF OUR MISSION TO EDUCATE EVERY CHILD FOR
WHICH THE INDIVIDUALS HAVE ALL THE CONTROL IN DETERMIN
A BETTER TOMORROW PROMOTING DEMOCRACY THROUGH
ING WHERE AND BY WHOM THEY WILL BE EDUCATED INSTITU
PUBLIC EDUCATION v SAID -S #OULEY -IDDLETON "OARD
TIONS LIKE PUBLIC EDUCATION MAY BE CAUGHT OFF
GUARD
0RESIDENT h7E MUST FACE THE HARD FACT THAT MORE AND
AND ILL
PREPARED TO hCOMPETEv FOR ENROLLMENT )N ORDER
MORE -IDDLETON FAMILIES ARE OPTING
OUT OF THE DISTRICTS
TO MEET THE PRESSURES OF THIS COMPETITION AND ATTRACT
SCHOOLS )N ORDER TO SUCCEED WE MUST MARKET THE
ENROLLMENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS LIKE -IDDLETON WILL NEED TO
-IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT AND COMPETE FOR THE YOUNG
GET HELP IN RESTRUCTURING THEIR CONNECTION TO THE COM
MINDS OF THIS COMMUNITY 4HE HIRING OF A CONSULTING
MUNITIES THEY SERVE
lRM WILL ENSURE THAT WE HAVE AN AUDIENCE IN THE FUTURE
%NHANCED OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS WILL CONTINUE TO
TO PERPETUATE THAT MISSIONv
GROW AT A RAPID RATE AND DISTRICTS WILL SCRAMBLE TO lND
WAYS TO SURVIVE IN AN EDUCATIONAL WORLD THAT VALUES
INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING 0UBLIC SCHOOLS WILL CONTINUE TO
EXIST BUT MUST REINVENT THEMSELVES AS THEY
FACE DO
OR
DIE SITUATIONS
%DUCATION WILL BE LESS LIKE ONE
SIZE
lTS
ALL AND MORE
SPECIALIZED TO MEET INDIVIDUAL NEEDS )N ADDITION THE
DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND ITS USE BY INDIVIDUALS
TO FORM THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES OF ONLINE SCHOOLS WILL
MAKE THE IDEA OF PLURALITY AND PUBLIC EDUCATION LESS
PALATABLE TO PARENTAL GENERATIONS WHO HAVE GROWN UP
IN A DIGITAL AGE 4HESE PARENTS WILL FEEL EMPOWERED
TO USE THESE TECHNOLOGIES TO TAILOR SCHOOLING TO THEIR
CHILDRENS NEEDS AND THEIR FAMILIES LIFESTYLES EVEN AT
THE EXPENSE OF hSOCIALIZATIONv IF NECESSARY
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
)NDICATORS
4HIS SCENARIO SEEMS LIKELY TO HAPPEN GIVEN THE FOLLOW
ING INDICATORS
s )MPROVEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY THAT MAKES IT EASIER
FOR ONLINE VIRTUALIZED SCHOOLS TO EMERGE
s )NCREASING DISSATISFACTION WITH PUBLIC EDUCATION
s &AILURE OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT TO
ACCOMPLISH ITS INTENDED OUTCOMES
s )NCREASING NUMBER OF ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLING
CHOICES THAT COMPETE FOR ENROLLMENT INCLUDING
EVERYTHING FROM HOME SCHOOL TO VIRTUAL SCHOOLS
s 0ASSAGE OF LEGISLATION EITHER THROUGH MANY STATES
OR THROUGH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT PROVIDES
MONIES TO INDIVIDUALS TO CHOOSE THEIR EDUCATION
CHOICE
/PTIONS
"ASED ON THE IMPLICATIONS FOR -IDDLETON IN THIS
SCENARIO THEY SHOULD BEGIN TO DEVELOP A ROBUST TECH
NOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT SO THAT
THEY CAN OFFER INNOVATIVE LEARNING OPTIONS FOR STUDENTS
THAT INCLUDE PROVIDING ONLINE INSTRUCTION !LL INSTRUC
TION SHOULD BE CONTENT
AND MEDIA
RICH )N ORDER TO
INNOVATE AND BE PREPARED TO COMPETE IN THIS ENVIRON
MENT SCHOOLS NEED TO THINK OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
PARADIGM CO
OP WITH NON
PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND FORGE
PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES 4HESE COOPERATIVE
FORAYS WILL KINDLE NEW IDEAS FROM MANY DIFFERENT PARA
DIGMS AND OPEN UP POSSIBILITIES TO NEW WAYS OF LEADING
AND CONDUCTING THE BUSINESS OF EDUCATION 3CHOOLS IN
THIS SCENARIO WOULD BE BOLSTERED BY ENLISTING THE HELP
OF CURRENT DISTRICT STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES IN AN
ONGOING FOCUS GROUP TO HELP DRIVE THE STRATEGY OF DELIV
ERING EDUCATION TO THIS INDIVIDUALISTIC
CENTERED SOCIETY
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY !MPLE
3CENARIO
$EEP #AUSES
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
#ONTROL OF ,EARNING
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT THE TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONAL
CONl GURATIONS THAT DEl NED SCHOOLING SCHOOLS DIS
2ESOURCES
TRICTS STATE EDUCATION AGENCIES HAVE DEVOLVED INTO
h2EST 3TOP
NEW FORMS OF SCHOOLING FOCUSED ON PROVIDING MANY #AR #AMPINGv
CHOICES TO MEET BASIC INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS
4HESE NEW FORMS EXIST IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF DIMIN
,IMITED
ISHED FUNDS FOR STUDENTS 4HIS DEVOLUTION OCCURRED OVER
THE COURSE OF A DECADE AS A RESULT OF THE FOLLOWING
s 3IGNIl CANTLY DIMINISHED FEDERAL AND STATE h2EST 3TOP #AR #AMPINGv
RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLING AS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 4IME
REDIRECTS FUNDS TO COVER THE SKYROCKETING COSTS OF
0LACE -IDDLETON 53!
HEALTH CARE FOR AN AGING POPULATION
3CENE %$
-/.4(,9 COVERS EDUCATION
RELATED
s 4HE OPPOSITION OF OLDER !MERICANS TO TAX TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE WESTERN STATES )N ADDITION TO
INCREASES AND PRE
KINDERGARTEN FUNDING INITIATIVES LEGISLATIVE UPDATES AND NEWS ARTICLES IT RUNS OP
EDS
REDUCING AVAILABLE LOCAL RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION AND FEATURE SECTIONS &OR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS
s 4HE FAILURE OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT OF AN %$
-/.4(,9 REPORTER HAS BEEN ATTENDING
TO IMPROVE ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS -IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS MONTHLY BOARD MEETINGS
AS EVIDENCED BY CONTINUED ACHIEVEMENT GAPS IN WHICH THE BOARD IS REVIEWING THE STATUS OF ITS SCHOOLS
BETWEEN WHITE AND MINORITY STUDENTS AND HIGHER AND SEARCHING FOR OPTIONS TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF
DROPOUT RATES ALTERNATIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS 4HE EDITOR
INTENDS TO RUN A SERIES ABOUT -IDDLETONS WORK AND THE
s -OUNTING PRESSURE FROM 'EN 8 AND -ILLENNIAL PRECARIOUS FUTURE OF THE DISTRICT
PARENTS FOR A BETTER DIFFERENT AND MORE INDIVIDU
ALIZED EDUCATION FOR THEIR OWN STUDENTS
!T A -ARCH WORKING SESSION THE -IDDLE
,IKE TRAVELERS WANDERING FROM PLACE TO PLACE REST TON "OARD OF %DUCATION MET WITH -IDDLETON PARENTS
STOP CAR CAMPING STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO DISCUSS HOW TO
OFFERS A VERY BASIC REVERSE THE TREND OF DECLINING ENROLLMENT BY ATTRACTING
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RETAINING STUDENTS IN -IDDLETONS ATTENDANCE AREA
WITH A VARIETY OF 7ITH THE EXPANSION OF CHOICE OPTIONS CREATED BY THE
BACKDROPS %VENTU
STATES h!LL #HILDREN -OVING 5Pv LEGISLATION IN
ALLY EVEN DIE
HARD PARENTS HAVE BEEN USING STATE
ISSUED VOUCHERS TO MOVE
CAMPERS CANT HELP THEIR CHILDREN TO OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS PRIVATE
BUT WONDER IS THIS SCHOOLS AND NEWLY
CREATED h(OME
"ASEDv SCHOOLS
WHAT CAMPING IS SUP
4HE DISTRICT WHICH HAS CLOSED THREE ELEMENTARY
POSED TO BE SCHOOLS ONE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ONE HIGH SCHOOL SINCE
IS LOOKING TO THE COMMUNITY FOR ANSWERS !C
CORDING TO "OARD 0RESIDENT -ICHELLE #OULEY THE BOARD
WILL HOST A SERIES OF SPECIAL MEETINGS THROUGHOUT THE
SPRING TO ENGAGE KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
HOW TO RENEW INTEREST IN -IDDLETONS SCHOOLS ) THINK THAT THE KEY TO -IDDLETON (IGH 3CHOOLS
&OUR INVITED GUESTS AND A HANDFUL OF PUBLIC ATTEND
SUCCESS IS PARENT INVOLVEMENT !S YOU KNOW WE
EES JOINED THE lRST DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES RAISED MORE THAN LAST YEAR AS WE DO MOST
OF DECLINING ENROLLMENT AND POSSIBLE WAYS TO REVERSE YEARS FROM PRIVATE AND CORPORATE DONATIONS 4HIS
IT !CCORDING TO 0RESIDENT #OULEY THE BOARD INVITED ENABLES US TO GIVE STUDENTS ALL OF THE EXTRAS THAT MAKE
hKEY STAKEHOLDERS WHO ARE WELL CONNECTED AND HAVE SCHOOL SPECIAL 7E OFFER STUDENTS ADVANCED PLACE
A PULSE ON -IDDLETONv 'UESTS WERE "RITTANY #LARK
MENT COURSES ATHLETIC PROGRAMS AND EVEN mOURISH
SON
7ONG 04! PRESIDENT AT -IDDLETON (IGH 3CHOOL ING MUSIC AND ART DEPARTMENTS AS WELL A VARIETY OF
#ESAR 2OMERO PARENT AT ,INCOLN (EIGHTS %LEMENTARY EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ) KNOW THAT YOU HAVE CUT
3CHOOL -ARTIN %SCOBAR PRESIDENT OF THE -IDDLETON EVERYTHING IN THE DISTRICT THAT IS NOT THE BASIC STUFF )T
,ATINO #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE AND #ARMEN !RZUELO
IS SUCH A SHAME ) DONT THINK THAT PARENTS AT OTHER
3MITH PRINCIPAL OF REGION WHICH INCLUDES ONE JUNIOR SCHOOLS SHARE THE SAME COMMITMENT AS THE -IDDLETON
HIGH AND THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS -ARY 3HELTON THE (IGH PARENTS
-IDDLETON 4EACHERS !SSOCIATION -4! PRESIDENT WAS
#ESAR 2OMEROS DESCRIPTION OF ,INCOLN (EIGHTS
IN THE AUDIENCE
%LEMENTARY 3CHOOL WAS A SHARP CONTRAST TO -IDDLE
#ONTRASTING 0OINTS OF 6IEW TON (IGH 3CHOOL ,INCOLN (EIGHTS LOCATED ON THE
SOUTHWEST BOUNDARY OF THE DISTRICT PROVIDES WHAT -R
4HE SEVEN
MEMBER -IDDLETON "OARD OF %DUCATION 2OMERO DESCRIBED AS hA SOLID BASIC EDUCATIONv TO A
AND 3UPERINTENDENT -ARTINEZ LISTENED FOR THREE HOURS DWINDLING ENROLLMENT OF STUDENTS (E SAID
AS GUESTS AND OTHERS IN THE AUDIENCE DISCUSSED THEIR
CONCERNS ABOUT THE VIABILITY OF THE DISTRICT !LTHOUGH 7E BELIEVE THAT THE TEACHERS AND PARENTS AT ,INCOLN
IN HER OPENING REMARKS -S #OULEY DESCRIBED -ID
(EIGHTS REALLY CARE ABOUT OUR KIDS BUT IT IS NOT FAIR
DLETONS DECLINING ENROLLMENT AS hTHE UNRAVELING OF THAT MY SON !UGUSTIN DOESNT HAVE THE CHANCE TO
!MERICAS GREATEST SOCIAL INSTITUTION PUBLIC SCHOOLS v PLAY SPORTS OR LEARN MUSIC OR ART )T IS NOT THAT THE
KEY STAKEHOLDERS DID NOT APPEAR TO SHARE THE BOARD PARENTS DONT CARE WE DO 7E JUST DONT HAVE MONEY
PRESIDENTS LEVEL OF CONCERN 2ATHER THEIR COMMENTS TO PAY FOR THE EXTRAS -OST OF US WORK TWO AND
REVOLVED AROUND ISSUES OF QUALITY AND EQUITY THREE JOBS JUST TO GET BY ) THINK THAT IT IS THE DISTRICTS
4HE "OARDS INVITEES OFFERED CONTRASTING POINTS OF RESPONSIBILITY TO SEE THAT ALL OF THE KIDS HAVE THE SAME
VIEW ABOUT -IDDLETONS ENROLLMENT "RITTANY #LARK
OPPORTUNITIES
SON
7ONG PARENT LONG
TIME -IDDLETON RESIDENT AND
(E WENT ON TO SAY h$R :AMORA YOU SAID IN YOUR
CURRENT -IDDLETON (IGH 3CHOOL 04! PRESIDENT SPOKE
CAMPAIGN THAT YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE THIS BETTER
AT LENGTH ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF -IDDLETON (IGH 3CHOOL
FOR US ) CAN SEE THAT THOSE WERE PURAS PALABRASv
DESCRIBING A WAITING LIST OF ANXIOUS PARENTS AND STU
DENTS )N CONTRAST #ESAR 2OMERO A ,INCOLN (EIGHTS
#AUGHT IN THE #YCLE
%LEMENTARY PARENT DESCRIBED HIS SONS SCHOOL AS HAVING
A HIGH STUDENTTEACHER RATIO A DILAPIDATED BUILDING 4HE LOSS OF FUNDING DUE TO DECLINING ENROLLMENT IS
AND A SHORTAGE OF QUALIlED TEACHERS "OTH SPEAKERS A VICIOUS CYCLE FOR SCHOOLS !S THEY GAIN STUDENTS THEY
VIEWED THE SITUATION THROUGH THEIR OWN EXPERIENCES ALSO GAIN RESOURCES WHICH IN TURN HELP THEIR SCHOOLS
AND THAT IS PART OF THE DILEMMA 4HESE SCHOOLS REmECT BECOME MORE ATTRACTIVE TO NEW STUDENTS -ANY STU
THE CHANGING DYNAMICS AND STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS DENTS TRANSFERRED TO THE NEIGHBORING %ASTMOORE 3CHOOL
ACROSS THE DISTRICT WHICH $R *UAN :AMORA THE "OARDS $ISTRICT WITH ITS NEWER BUILDINGS AND STRONG ART AND
MOST VETERAN MEMBER DESCRIBED AS hPOLARIZATIONv ATHLETIC PROGRAMS ALL FUNDED THROUGH DONATIONS TO THE
!T THE "OARDS REQUEST -S #LARKSON
7ONG DE
PARENT
ESTABLISHED %ASTMOORE #OMMUNITY &OUNDATION
SCRIBED HOW -IDDLETON (IGH 3CHOOL HAS BEEN ABLE TO ,INCOLN (EIGHTS %LEMENTARY ON THE OTHER HAND WHILE
RETAIN ITS STUDENTS AND ATTRACT NEW ONES OVER THE PAST SUPPORTED WITH SMALL GRANTS FROM THE ,ATINO #HAMBER
SEVERAL YEARS (ER COMMENTS FOLLOW OF #OMMERCE NOW HAS SIX VOUCHER
FUNDED (OME
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
"ASED SCHOOLS OPERATING WITHIN TWO MILES OF THE SCHOOL !MPLE
CAUSING A FURTHER DRAIN ON ENROLLMENT
-ARTIN %SCOBAR 0RESIDENT OF -IDDLETONS ,ATINO
#HAMBER OF #OMMERCE SHARED #ESAR 2OMEROS SENTI
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
MENTS AND SPOKE DIRECTLY TO THE BOARD #ONTROL OF ,EARNING
2ESOURCES
)F THE "OARD REALLY WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE THEN
YOU CAN NO LONGER ALLOW PARENTS TO SEGREGATE THEIR
h2EST 3TOP
KIDS 7HEN ) LOOK ACROSS THIS DISTRICT AT ENROLLMENT #AR #AMPINGv
AND ACHIEVEMENT DATA ) SEE THAT THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE
THRIVING ARE lLLED WITH RICH WHITE KIDS AND THE ONES ,IMITED
THAT ARE STRUGGLING OR CLOSING ARE FOR POOR ,ATINOS !S
LONG AS THE BOARD PERMITS THIS WE WILL CONTINUE TO
HAVE INEQUITABLE EDUCATION 9OU KNOW THAT OUR OR
3EARCHING FOR 7ORKABLE 3OLUTIONS
GANIZATION HAS GIVEN WHAT WE CAN TO ,INCOLN (EIGHTS
%LEMENTARY OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS BUT THESE GRANTS 4HE BOARDS INVITEES OFFERED SEVERAL POSSIBILITIES
HAVE BEEN INSUFlCIENT COMPARED TO WHAT THE %AST
FOR SOLUTIONS INCLUDING CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS AND
MOORE #OMMUNITY &OUNDATION CAN PROVIDE 7E ARE INCREASED VIRTUAL LEARNING COURSES FOR HIGH SCHOOL
TRYING TO BUILD A STRONG PROUD SCHOOL BUT ATTRACTING STUDENTS -R %SCOBARS SUGGESTION THAT THE DISTRICT
TEACHERS AND NEW STUDENTS IS A STRUGGLE /UR ENROLL
IMPOSE A POLICY MANDATING THAT THE DISTRICT INTEGRATE
MENT CONTINUES TO DECLINE AND SOME CLASSES ARE STILL ITS SCHOOLS THROUGH ASSIGNING STUDENTS TO CROSS
TOWN
TAUGHT BY SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS SCHOOLS PROVOKED THE MOST SPIRITED DEBATE 0ETER
2OLAND
3MITH RETIRED TEACHER AND BOARD MEMBER
0RINCIPAL !RZUELO
3MITH WHO SERVES THREE ELEMEN
RESPONDED
TARY SCHOOLS AND ONE MIDDLE SCHOOL OFFERED ANOTHER
PERSPECTIVE 7ITH DUE RESPECT -R %SCOBAR ) DONT THINK THAT
YOU UNDERSTAND THE POSITION WE ARE IN AS A DISTRICT
/UR DISTRICT IS IN A TIME OF CHANGE &UNDS ARE LIMITED 0ARENTS HAVE ALL OF THE CONTROL BECAUSE THEY RECEIVE
/UR STUDENT POPULATION IS CHANGING 7E RECEIVE LESS STATE VOUCHERS AND TAX CREDITS FOR DIRECT DONATIONS
SUPPORT FROM FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS THAN TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS 4HE DAYS OF "ROWN VERSUS THE
EVER 4HIS IS A TIME WHEN WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER "OARD OF %DUCATION ARE OVER 7E SURVEYED PARENTS
TO MAKE THINGS WORK AS A DISTRICT 4HE STATE VOUCHER AND FOUND EDUCATION IN A DIVERSE STUDENT SETTING IS
PROGRAM HAS SHIFTED THE FOCUS FROM SCHOOLS AND COM
VERY LOW ON THEIR LIST OF PRIORITIES 4HE MINUTE WE
MUNITIES TO INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS 0ARENTS HAVE ALWAYS MANDATE WHERE STUDENTS SHOULD ATTEND SCHOOL WE
WANTED WHAT IS BEST FOR THEIR CHILDREN .OW THOUGH WILL LOSE EVEN MORE STUDENTS !S IT IS NOW WE HAVE
THERE IS NO SENSE OF LOYALTY TO A SCHOOL OR DISTRICT CLOSED lVE SCHOOLS IN THREE YEARS 3OME YEARS AS
4HE FOUR 2EGION SCHOOLS THAT ) AM IN CHARGE OF ARE MANY AS A THIRD OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE
ALL VERY DIFFERENT BUT IN EVERY ONE OF THEM ) SEE ENROLLED IN THE VIRTUAL LEARNING PROGRAM AT -IDDLETON
PARENTS WHO REALLY CARE AND WHO WANT THE BEST FOR (IGH 3CHOOL AND WE HAVE A GROWING (OME
"ASED
THEIR KIDS 5NFORTUNATELY THEY DONT ALL HAVE THE SCHOOL POPULATION THANKS TO THE STATES DECISION THAT
SAME MEANS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR EDUCATION WHICH PARENTS CAN BECOME CERTIlED TEACHERS ONCE THEY HAVE
MEANS THAT OUR DISTRICT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE COMPLETED A SHORT COURSE AND lLLED OUT SOME PAPER
SEGREGATED AND -IDDLETON IS NOT THE COMMUNITY WORK 7E CANT REALLY MANDATE VERY MUCH 7E ARE
IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO 7E HAVE TO OVERCOME THIS BY IN COMPETITION FOR THE PARENTS IN OUR DISTRICT 7E
WORKING TOGETHER AS A DISTRICT HAVE TO ATTRACT THEM
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
.O 3UPPORT FROM 53$/% STATE MOST STATES OFFER AN ANNUAL PER CHILD EDUCATIONAL
-IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT LIKE MANY !MERICAN VOUCHER 4O OBTAIN A VOUCHER PARENTS MUST ENROLL
SCHOOL DISTRICTS IS EXPERIENCING MAJOR CHANGES THAT ARE THEIR CHILD IN A STATE APPROVED PROGRAM AND HAVE PROOF
LIKELY TO HAVE AN IMPACT ON FUTURE GENERATIONS OF STU OF ENROLLMENT 6OUCHERS BEGAN TO MAKE SENSE TO AN
DENTS %DUCATION PUNDITS ATTRIBUTE THE CURRENT DETERIO ECONOMICALLY STRAPPED PUBLIC PARTICULARLY TO THOSE
RATION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION TO THE WOEFULLY INADEQUATE AGING "ABY "OOMERS WHO ARE FAR MORE CONCERNED ABOUT
FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING FORMULAS )N PARTLY IN PAYING FOR THEIR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS THAN BUYING TEXT
RESPONSE TO THE RISING COST OF DELIVERING HEALTH CARE BOOKS FOR SOMEONE ELSES CHILDREN )N ADDITION SUC
TO AGING "ABY "OOMERS AS WELL AS THE UNCONTAINABLE CESSFUL TAX REDUCTION BALLOT INITIATIVES SCHOOL lNANCE
COSTS OF THE 7AR ON 4ERROR THE TH #ONGRESS PASSED LAWSUITS AND THE REAL ESTATE BUST OF ALL CONSPIRED
LEGISLATION THAT STRIPPED POWER AND FUNDING FROM THE TO CONVINCE VOTERS TO PROVIDE EACH STUDENT WITH A
5NITED 3TATES $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION 53$/% VOUCHER AND THEN LEAVE THE REST TO THE MARKET
4HE FEDERAL EDUCATION BUDGET WHICH ONCE PROVIDED AS -OST DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE 5NITED 3TATES ARE
MUCH AS PERCENT OF FUNDING FOR INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL STRUGGLING TO ADAPT TO THE CHANGES IN PUBLIC EDUCATION
DISTRICTS NOW COVERS LESS THAN TWO PERCENT OF THE COST WHICH IS NOW PRIMARILY CONTROLLED BY PARENTS 0ARENTAL
OF EDUCATING !MERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN !LTHOUGH THE CHOICE WHICH WAS AN INCREMENTAL CHANGE IN THE EARLY
VIABILITY OF THE 53$/% HAS COME INTO QUESTION AGAIN S HAS EXPLODED .OT ONLY CAN PARENTS CHOOSE THEIR
AND AGAIN OVER THE PAST lVE DECADES THE STREAMLINED CHILDRENS SCHOOLS THEY ALSO CAN BE THE TEACHER OR THE
DEPARTMENT IS AS CLOSE AS IT HAS EVER BEEN TO BEING PRINCIPAL 4HANKS TO STATE LEGISLATION MOST STATES ALLOW
ELIMINATED ANYONE WITH A BACHELORS DEGREE WHO CAN PASS A CRIMI
4HE 53$/% HAS TWO MAJOR FUNCTIONS NATIONAL NAL BACKGROUND CHECK TO BECOME STATE APPROVED TEACH
ASSESSMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF 4ITLE ) FUNDS &OR ERS ABLE TO RUN A (OME "ASED SCHOOL !S LOW PAYING
THE DEPARTMENT IMPLEMENTED A NATIONAL ONLINE SERVICE JOBS INCREASE AND COLLEGE EDUCATED !MERICANS
STANDARDS BASED ASSESSMENT PROGRAM THAT ALL STUDENTS lND THEMSELVES CHOOSING BETWEEN UNEMPLOYMENT
ENROLLED IN SECOND THROUGH EIGHTH GRADES MUST COM AND WORKING FOR REDUCED PAY TEACHING HAS BECOME AN
PLETE ANNUALLY 3INCE STATES ARE REQUIRED TO TEST EVERY ATTRACTIVE CHOICE FOR MANY (OME "ASED SCHOOLS ARE
STUDENT WHO ATTENDS A PUBLIC SCHOOL OR WHO RECEIVES A TYPICALLY FOUND IN WHITE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS NEIGHBOR
VOUCHER THIS STANDARDIZED TESTING SYSTEM SAVES STATES HOODS WHERE COLLEGE EDUCATED MOMS OBTAIN LICENSES
THE EXPENSE OF CREATING THEIR OWN ASSESSMENTS AND TO TEACH NEIGHBORHOOD STUDENTS OUT OF THEIR HOME IN
PROVIDES CROSS STATE COMPARISONS OF STUDENT ACHIEVE EXCHANGE FOR THE STUDENTS VOUCHER
MENT SOMETHING STATES WITH DECLINING POPULATIONS 3HARON +ING AN UNEMPLOYED TECHNICIAN WITH A
ARE NOW USING TO LURE NEW RESIDENTS 4HE $EPART "ACHELORS $EGREE FROM THE .EW -EXICO )NSTITUTE OF
MENT ALSO HAS CONTINUED TO PROVIDE 4ITLE ) FUNDS TO 4ECHNOLOGY RUNS A STATE APPROVED (OME "ASED SCHOOL
SOCIO ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS THROUGH FROM HER HOME 4EN NEIGHBORHOOD STUDENTS BETWEEN
ENHANCED VOUCHERS ALTHOUGH THE NEW REQUIREMENT THE AGES OF lVE AND EIGHT ARRIVE AT HER HOME EVERY
THAT FAMILIES DEMONSTRATE THEIR ELIGIBILITY THROUGH TAX MORNING TO SPEND AS MUCH AS SIX HOURS LEARNING THE
RETURNS A MOVE SOME CYNICS BELIEVE IS AN INTENTIONAL STATE APPROVED CURRICULUM BUT THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO
EFFORT TO REDUCE THE lNANCIAL BURDEN OF 4ITLE ) ON THE BE THERE FOR ANY SET LENGTH OF TIME -S +ING HAD THIS
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS LIMITING THE NUMBERS OF VOUCH TO SAY IN A RECENT INTERVIEW
ERS ISSUED !T lRST WHEN ) GOT LAID OFF ) WAS LOST !T THE SAME
TIME THE OTHER MOMS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ) HAD
3TATES AND 0ARENTS 3WAP 2OLES
GROWN QUITE FRUSTRATED WITH THE LACK OF RIGOR IN OUR
4HE ROLE OF 3TATE $EPARTMENTS OF %DUCATION HAS PUBLIC SCHOOL 7E LOVED THE TEACHERS BUT WE WANTED
ALSO CHANGED IN RECENT YEARS WITH THE ADVENT OF STATE THE SCHOOL TO BE MORE ACADEMIC /NE OF THE NEIGHBORS
VOUCHER PROGRAMS !LTHOUGH THE PROGRAMS VARY BY SUGGESTED THAT ) START A SCHOOL SINCE ) HAD BEEN THE
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
"ROWNIE LEADER AND KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT WORKING !MPLE
WITH KIDS 4HATS WHEN ) lRST SERIOUSLY THOUGHT ABOUT
IT 4HEN WHEN THE STATE OFFERED VOUCHERS AND TAX
BREAKS FOR DIRECT DONATIONS TO SCHOOLS IT JUST MADE
)NSTITUTIONAL
)NDIVIDUAL
SENSE )TS GREAT ) TEACH KIDS EVERY DAY 4HEY #ONTROL OF ,EARNING
COME FOR THE TIME THAT THEY NEED TO LEARN WHAT THEY
2ESOURCES
NEED TO KNOW 4HEY ARE SELF
DIRECTED AND MOTIVATED
AND THEIR PARENTS ARE INTERESTED AND INVOLVED 4HE h2EST 3TOP
#AR #AMPINGv
KIDS SET THE PACE THEMSELVES AND DO MOST OF THEIR
WORK ON COMPUTERS 7E FOLLOW THE STANDARDS THAT
,IMITED
MOST SCHOOLS USE OF COURSE AND ) GET THEM ALONG
WITH LESSON PLAN SUGGESTIONS RIGHT OFF OF THE -C2%,
7EB SITE 2EALLY ) JUST HELP KIDS LEARN ) LIKE TO THINK
OF IT AS h-ONTESSORI GONE TECHNOv FOR THESE SCHOOLS ARE EXPECTED TO COME FROM NONTRADI
TIONAL SOURCES USING ALTERNATIVE CERTIlCATIONS EXISTING
TEACHERS WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL ATTITUDE AND WHO
!NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO ARE TIRED OF THEIR EXISTING SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS MAY
)MPLICATIONS LEAVE TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS TO CREATE ADDITIONAL (OME
"ASED SCHOOLS AND TAKE SELECTED STUDENTS WITH THEM
)N THIS WORLD THERE ARE LIMITED RESOURCES FROM THE
(OME
"ASED SCHOOLS ARE AN AFFORDABLE ECONOMIC
STATE FOR TRADITIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS OF ALL
MODEL BECAUSE OF LIMITED OVERHEAD COSTS *UST AS PUBLIC
KINDS MUST COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER FOR STUDENTS AND
SCHOOLS WILL INCREASE INEQUITIES BETWEEN COMMUNITIES
THEIR STATE
FUNDED VOUCHERS 4HE MORE STUDENTS THAT
(OME
"ASED SCHOOL QUALITY WILL BE GREATLY DIFFERENTI
A SCHOOL CAN ATTRACT THE MORE LIKELY IT IS TO BE ABLE
ATED 3OME WILL HAVE THE ADVANTAGES OF THE BEST TEACH
TO PROVIDE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION PARENTS DEMAND
ERS AND A SMALL CLASS SIZE AND SOME WILL LACK PROPER
"ECAUSE VOUCHERS ARE NOT ADEQUATE IN AND OF THEM
TEACHING 4HE ROLE OF THE PARENT WILL BE INCREASINGLY
SELVES TO SUPPORT TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS INEQUITY AMONG
IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE CHOICE OPTIONS PROVIDE BETTER
PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS INCREASING BOTH IN TERMS OF THE
QUALITY THAN TRADITIONAL ALTERNATIVES 4HROUGH VOUCH
QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF THEIR OFFERINGS 4ITLE ) FUNDS ARE
ERS FAMILIES AT THE LOWER END OF THE INCOME SPECTRUM
DISTRIBUTED IN THE FORM OF VOUCHER ENHANCEMENTS TO
WILL NOW BE ABLE TO FUND OPTIONS PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE
LOW
INCOME STUDENTS BUT DO NOT PROVIDE A HIGH ENOUGH
TO THEM 4HIS CREATES A VERY NEW WORLD OF COMPETITION
LEVEL OF FUNDING 3PECIAL FUNDING FOR LOW
INCOME
FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT HAVE BEEN SHELTERED FROM THIS
STUDENTS IS PROVIDED THROUGH 4ITLE ) VOUCHER ENHANCE
IN THE PAST
MENTS WHICH DO NOT AMOUNT TO ENOUGH TO PROVIDE TRUE
EQUITY 3CHOOLS BECOME AUTONOMOUS FROM THE DISTRICT
IN MANY WAYS ESPECIALLY IN FUNDING BUT THIS DISPARITY
IN RESOURCES CREATES ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES FOR SCHOOL
BOARDS AS THE NEEDIEST SCHOOLS FALL FURTHER BEHIND THOSE
OF RELATIVELY HIGH QUALITY &AMILIES THAT ARE INTERESTED
IN EDUCATION AND CAN ACCESS ALTERNATIVES WILL DESERT THE
UNDER
PERFORMING SCHOOLS LEAVING AN INCREASINGLY DES
PERATE ENVIRONMENT BEHIND )N A DECLINING ENROLLMENT
ENVIRONMENT TEACHERS WILL LOSE JOB SECURITY AND BEGIN
TO PURSUE ALTERNATIVE CAREERS AT A FASTER RATE
4HE NEWLY CREATED (OME
"ASED SCHOOLS PROVIDE
ALTERNATIVES FOR TEACHERS 7HILE THE INITIAL TEACHERS
,OCAL %DUCATION !GENCY 3CENARIO
)NDICATORS IN THE COMMUNITY #ONTINUING TO INVOLVE PARENTS IN
%VENTS AND TRENDS THAT COULD SIGNAL THE DEVELOPMENT BOTH A PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND IN THE ENDEAVOR ITSELF IS
OF THIS SCENARIO INCLUDE THESE ESSENTIAL TO MAINTAIN THEIR SUPPORT AND THEIR SONS AND
DAUGHTERS AS PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS $OING THE SAME
s #ONTINUED FAILURE OF SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS TO MOVE WITH BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IS ALSO ESSENTIAL TO
HIGH NUMBERS OF THEIR CHILDREN TO PROlCIENCY SECURE THEIR lNANCIAL SUPPORT AND TO LIMIT THE FRAGMEN
LEVELS ESPECIALLY SPECIAL GROUPS TATION THAT CAN OCCUR IN A COMPETITIVE WORLD OF CHOICE
4EACHERS WILL NEED TO BE BROUGHT INTO THE PROCESS
s )NCREASED PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
AS THE FRONTLINE OF CONTACT WITH THE NEWLY EMPOWERED
OPTIONS AND THE WILLINGNESS OF LEGISLATURES TO
STUDENTSPARENTS 3TUDENTS WILL EXPECT QUALITY CLASS
CREATE mEXIBLE FUNDING MECHANISMS TO PROVIDE FOR
ROOM EXPERIENCES AND BOTH PARENTS AND STUDENTS WILL
CHOICES FOR MORE FAMILIES WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO
BE LESS WILLING TO TOLERATE DISSATISFACTION OF ANY TYPE
PAY ON THEIR OWN
BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE POWER TO EXERCISE OTHER OPTIONS
s )NCREASED AVAILABILITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND OFF
THE
SHELF MATERIALS AVAILABLE FOR USE OUTSIDE OF $ISCUSSION 1UESTIONS
TRADITIONAL CLASSROOMS !RE THE CRITICAL UNCERTAINTIES THAT FORM THE
s $ECLINE IN EDUCATION FUNDING AT NATIONAL STATE SCENARIO FRAMEWORK THOSE THAT YOU WOULD CHOOSE
AND LOCAL LEVELS CAUSED BY THE HIGH PRICE OF OR ARE THERE OTHER UNCERTAINTIES THAT SEEM MORE
SETTLING SCHOOL lNANCE LAWSUITS AND MEETING THE CRITICAL TO YOU
HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF AGING "ABY "OOMERS !RE THE STORIES PLAUSIBLE #OULD THEY TURN OUT TO
s -ORE PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE OF A hONE
SIZE
lTS
ALLv BE TRUE )F NOT WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE
APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY #AN YOU THINK OF OTHER IMPLICATIONS AND OPTIONS
FOR THE ORGANIZATION IN ADDITION TO THOSE WRITTEN
/PTIONS IN THE !NALYSIS SECTIONS
)N ORDER TO THRIVE IN THIS SCENARIO THE LOCAL SCHOOL
)F YOU WERE LEADING AN ORGANIZATION OF THIS TYPE
DISTRICT WILL NEED TO BE HIGHLY CREATIVE AND PROACTIVE TO
WHAT WOULD YOU DO NOW TO PREPARE FOR THESE
MAINTAIN ITS STUDENT BASE )T MAY EVEN NEED TO SELEC
IMAGINED FUTURES
TIVELY DEFEND ITS BASE BY ABANDONING THE TRADITIONAL
PATTERN OF OFFERING SCHOOLS TO CHILDREN ON A GEOGRAPHIC
BASIS 4O SURVIVE THE DISTRICT MIGHT NEED TO ABANDON
SCHOOLS IN SOME GEOGRAPHIC AREAS WITH SOME INITIAL
LOSS OF STUDENTS AND FOCUS ON BUILDING PROGRAMS WITHIN
REMAINING SCHOOLS THAT MATCH PARENT AND STUDENT
INTERESTS )N ADDITION THE DISTRICT MIGHT ATTEMPT TO
hMIRRORv THE MORE
ATTRACTIVE (OME
"ASED AND PRIVATE
SCHOOLS BY ALLOWING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SIGNIlCANTLY
MORE AUTONOMY
-IDDLETON 3CHOOL $ISTRICT MIGHT CONSIDER UNDER
TAKING SOME VERSION OF A 37/4 3TRENGTHS 7EAK
NESSES /PPORTUNITIES AND 4HREATS ANALYSIS AND THEN
BUILD A STRONG CREATIVE PLAN TO MAINTAIN ITS POSITION
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
!BUNDANT
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.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIOS
)NTRODUCTION
0 ARENTS FOR %DUCATION 0&% IS A NATIONAL PARENT GROUP WHOSE MISSION IS TO INmUENCE AND SUPPORT
HIGH
QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR ALL !MERICAN CHILDREN 7ITH HEADQUARTERS IN 7ASHINGTON
$# 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION WORKS THROUGH NATIONAL STATE AND LOCAL CHAPTERS TO ENSURE THAT THE VOICES
OF PARENTS ABOUT THEIR CHILDRENS EDUCATION ARE HEARD AND ACTED UPON BY LOCAL STATE AND NATIONAL POLI
CYMAKERS 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION IS A NONPROlT ASSOCIATION WITH SIX MILLION MEMBERS WHO ARE ORGANIZED
INTO MORE THAN CHAPTERS THROUGHOUT THE 5NITED 3TATES AND THE $ISTRICT OF #OLUMBIA
&OR MANY YEARS THE MEMBERSHIP OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION HOVERED AROUND THE MILLION MARK BUT
DURING THE LAST DECADE MEMBERSHIP HAS STEADILY DECLINED AS MANY PARENTS IN MORE AFmUENT SCHOOL DIS
TRICTS WHO DID NOT WANT TO FOLLOW THE DICTATES OF A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION BROKE OFF AND STARTED THEIR OWN
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS 4HESE ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ONLY ON LOCAL ISSUES AND DID NOT PARTICIPATE AT THE NA
TIONAL LEVEL (OWEVER THIS TREND NOW IS REVERSING APPARENTLY AS A REACTION TO THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND
!CT OF .#," 4ODAYS PARENTS REALIZE THAT NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLES WHEN LAWS
ABOUT THEIR CHILDRENS EDUCATION ARE PASSED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND MEMBERSHIP IS ON THE RISE
-EMBERSHIP IN 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION IS CLIMBING FOR ANOTHER REASON 2ESEARCH SUPPORTS THE CRITICAL
IMPORTANCE OF PARENTS IN THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN AND 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION HAS
LONG CHAMPIONED THE ISSUE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT 2ECENT STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT THE KEY FACTOR IN
THE LIVES OF CHILDREN WHO hBEAT THE ODDSv ARE PARENTS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THEIR EDUCATION 0ARENTS FOR
%DUCATION WELCOMES THIS RESEARCH ITS LEADERSHIP IS COMMITTED TO ONCE AGAIN GROWING THEIR MEMBERSHIP
IN THE BELIEF THAT LARGER NUMBERS WILL MEAN GREATER INmUENCE IN IMPROVING CHILDRENS EDUCATION AND LIVES
4HE LEADERSHIP ALSO IS VERY AWARE OF THE UPHILL CLIMB THIS EFFORT POSES
.ATIONAL 0ROGRAMS
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION PROVIDES PARENTS AND FAMILIES WITH A POWERFUL VOICE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF EVERY
CHILD 7ITH A NETWORK OF PARTNERSHIPS 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION EXPRESSES ITS CONCERNS REGARDING CHILDREN
IN STATE LEGISLATURES AND ON #APITOL (ILL !NY LOCAL DISTRICT OR STATE 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION CHAPTER CAN
BRING MATTERS OF LEGISLATIVE CONCERN TO THE ATTENTION OF THE .ATIONAL 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION 4HROUGH
ITS SEPARATE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION ENDORSES CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFlCE WHO
SUPPORT ITS GOALS
,OCAL 0ROGRAMS
"ECAUSE 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION IS THE ONLY PARENT ORGANIZATION IN THE COUNTRY THAT IS CENTRALIZED AND
HAS A STAFF IT HAS THE CAPACITY TO KEEP PARENTS INFORMED ABOUT PRESSING ISSUES IN THE SCHOOLS IN THEIR
AREA OF THE COUNTRY .OT ONLY DOES 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE ISSUES IT PROVIDES
ACCESS TO LOCALLY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AS WELL AS THE APPROPRIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS WHO
NEED TO BE CONTACTED WHEN CRUCIAL DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE 4HE STAFF ALSO CAN PROVIDE SAMPLE LETTERS E
MAIL MESSAGES AND TEMPLATES THAT CONCERNED PARENTS CAN USE TO VOICE THEIR OPINIONS 0ARENTS FOR %DUCA
TION IS ABLE TO MOBILIZE PARENTS QUICKLY AND EFlCIENTLY ON ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE
-EMBER "ENElTS
-EMBERS OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION HAVE ACCESS TO A 7EB SITE RECEIVE THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE /UR
3CHOOLS ATTEND THE YEARLY CONVENTION AT DISCOUNTED RATES AND RECEIVE AN ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER FROM
THE PRESIDENT ON ISSUES OF SPECIAL CONCERN $UES COLLECTED BY LOCAL CHAPTERS GO DIRECTLY TO THE NATIONAL
CHAPTER TO MEET STAFlNG AND ADMINISTRATION OBLIGATIONS THAT SUSTAIN THE ORGANIZATION WHILE FULlLLING ITS
COMMITMENT TO LOCAL CHAPTERS AND ITS LARGER MISSION TO SERVE AS THE VOICE OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN OF THE
NATION ON EDUCATION ISSUES THAT AFFECT EVERY HOUSEHOLD
.ATIONAL 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION 'OALS
s 3UPPORT EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND SUPERB ACADEMIC OUTCOMES IN STUDENT LEARNING
s 3UPPORT INCREASED STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING FOR EDUCATION
s (ELP PARENTS DEVELOP THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THEY NEED TO WORK FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR
CHILDRENS SCHOOLS
s %NCOURAGE PARENTAL AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOLS AT A GRASS ROOTS LEVEL
&OCAL )SSUE
(OW CAN 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION REMAIN A RELEVANT VIBRANT ORGANIZATION OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS
!S THEY LOOK TOWARD THE FUTURE THE LEADERS OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION KNOW THEY FACE SOME SERIOUS
CHALLENGES 7ITH THE POPULATION BECOMING MORE RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DIVERSE AND THE PROPORTION OF
ELDERLY INCREASING 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION COULD ONCE AGAIN FACE A DECLINING MEMBERSHIP DESPITE THE
CURRENT UPSWING 4HIS COULD PRESENT A POTENTIALLY SERIOUS CRISIS IN FUNDING 4ODAY ONLY ONE IN FOUR
HOUSEHOLDS HAS SCHOOL
AGED CHILDREN !S THE PROPORTION OF HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN DECLINES AND MORE
OF THOSE CHILDREN ARE BORN INTO POVERTY THE LEADERS HAVE EMBARKED UPON A SCENARIO
PLANNING PROCESS
FOCUSED ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH PARENTS HAVE SCHOOLING CHOICES FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND THE AVAILABILITY OF
RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !BUNDANT
!SSOCIATION 3CENARIO h9OU #ANT !LWAYS
'ET 7HAT 9OU 7ANTv
$EEP #AUSES
,IMITED
3CHOOL #HOICES
-ANY
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT PARENTS HAVE EXTREMELY
LIMITED CHOICES OF WHERE TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO
2ESOURCES
SCHOOL BUT PARENTS ARE HAPPY WITH THE SITUATION SINCE
THE &EDERAL GOVERNMENT IS FULLY FUNDING THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS AND THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL IS HIGH
3CARCE
4HE FOLLOWING DEEP CAUSES COULD LEAD TO THIS SCENARIO
s ! MAJOR ECONOMIC UPTURN HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR
THE &EDERAL GOVERNMENT TO FULLY FUND .#," NURTURING COMMUNITIES AND QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION
s 0UBLIC SCHOOLS ARE RECEIVING FULL FUNDING BUT THE FOR CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE 5NITED 3TATES
GOVERNMENT HAS INSISTED ON A NATIONAL CURRICULUM 4ODAY ) CAN HAPPILY SAY THAT ) HAVE ACHIEVED MY
NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS AND NATIONAL STANDARDS GOALS AS 0RESIDENT OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION AND AS MOST
OF YOU ALREADY KNOW ) AM STEPPING DOWN IN 3EPTEM
s #ONTINUED CONCERN ABOUT !MERICAN STUDENTS BER TO JOIN 0RESIDENT -C#AINS #ABINET AS 3ECRETARY
POOR SHOWING ON INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENTS SUCH OF %DUCATION 4HIS IS AN HONOR THAT WOULD NEVER HAVE
AS 4)--3 BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE EXPERIENCE AND SUPPORT )
HAVE GAINED AS YOUR LEADER 4HE PAST TEN YEARS HAVE
BEEN EXHILARATING AND 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION HAS MADE
h9OU #ANT !LWAYS 'ET 7HAT AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPROVED STATE OF
9OU 7ANTv PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE 5NITED 3TATES
4IME *UNE 7HEN ) lRST CAME ON AS 0RESIDENT IN THE
FUTURE OF OUR SCHOOLS AND OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION DID
0LACE 7ASHINGTON $#
NOT LOOK HOPEFUL /UR ORGANIZATION HAD EXPERIENCED
3CENE 3PECIAL .EWSLETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF A CONTINUAL DECLINE IN MEMBERSHIP 4HE FOCUS OF
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION TO ITS MEMBERS 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION WAS ON SURVIVING AS AN ORGANIZA
TION RATHER THAN ON ADVOCATING FOR STUDENTS -ORE AND
MORE CHILDREN WERE BEING ENROLLED IN PRIVATE AND PARO
$EAR -EMBERS CHIAL SCHOOLS OR BEING HOME SCHOOLED -ANY CHILDREN
WERE BEING EDUCATED THROUGH ONLINE SCHOOLS SOME
3INCE MILLIONS OF PARENTS LIKE YOU HAVE
REPUTABLE AND OTHERS NOT SO REPUTABLE /UR COUNTRY
BELONGED TO AN ORGANIZATION THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
WAS EMBROILED IN A WAR IN )RAQ AND HAD A BUDGET DElCIT
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION 0&% A VISIONARY COMMUNITY
IN THE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS 4HE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND
COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE LIVES AND EDUCATION OF
!CT OF .#," WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FORCE
ALL CHILDREN 7E ARE A FORCE FOR THE GOOD OF CHILDREN A
FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT WAS CAUSING A RIFT WITHIN
SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND SUPPORT FOR PARENTS AND A
STATES AND SCHOOLS AND MUTINY WAS ON THE MINDS OF
STRONG ADVOCATE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION 0ARENTS FOR %DU
MANY SCHOOL PERSONNEL AND STATE LEGISLATORS 4OO MANY
CATION WORKS FOR EFFECTIVE PARENT INVOLVEMENT SAFE AND
)N THE !MERICAN %NTERPRISE )NSTITUTE FOR 0UBLIC 0OLICY WROTE THAT MEMBERSHIP IN THE .ATIONAL 04! HAD DECLINED FROM A HIGH OF
MILLION IN TO A LOW OF MILLION IN HTTPWWWAEIORGPUBLICATIONSPUB)$ lLTERALLPUB?DETAILASP
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SCHOOLS WERE FAILING TO MAKE ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS 4HE NEW LAW REPLACED .#,"S hONE SIZE lTS ALLv
!90 EVEN THE MORE AFmUENT SUBURBAN SCHOOLS !S PROlCIENCY TARGETS WITH AMBITIOUS ACHIEVEMENT TARGETS
DISTRICTS CONTINUED TO MISS !90 TARGETS STATE DE BASED ON RATES OF SUCCESS ACTUALLY ACHIEVED BY THE MOST
PARTMENTS OF EDUCATION WERE LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO hDO EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ALLOWED STATES TO MEASURE
SOMETHINGv BUT WERE ILL EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH THE PROGRESS BY USING STUDENTS GROWTH IN ACHIEVEMENT AS
GROWING NUMBER OF SCHOOLS IDENTIlED AS FAILING 3TATES WELL AS THEIR PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO PRE DETERMINED
ESPECIALLY THE KEY ELECTORAL STATES OF #ALIFORNIA &LORIDA LEVELS OF ACADEMIC PROlCIENCY .#," )) ALSO REQUIRED
4EXAS /HIO AND .EW 9ORK HAD NO MONEY TO FUND THE STATES TO USE A NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND PROVIDE DIAG
NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCA NOSTIC INFORMATION TO SCHOOLS TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARN
TION LOOKED GRIM INDEED 4HE REQUIREMENT OF FUNDING ING 4HE LAW ALSO ENSURED THAT IMPROVEMENT PLANS HAD
EDUCATION TO MEET THE MANDATES OF .#," WAS MOVING SUFlCIENT TIME TO TAKE HOLD BEFORE APPLYING SANCTIONS
MANY STATES TO THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY AND STIPULATED THAT SANCTIONS SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED IF
4HE INCREASINGLY ANGRY MOOD OF THE VOTERS BROUGHT THEY UNDERMINE EXISTING EFFECTIVE REFORM EFFORTS 4HIS
A MORE MODERATE GROUP OF LEGISLATORS INTO OFlCE IN MAJOR REVISION TO .#," HELPED THE LAW ACCOMPLISH
THE #ONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF 6OTERS WERE FED WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO ACCOMPLISH ENSURE THAT ALL
UP WITH POLITICAL POSTURING IN #ONGRESS %VEN THOUGH CHILDREN LEARNED TO READ WRITE AND COMPUTE AT LEAST
THE (OUSE 3ENATE AND 7HITE (OUSE WERE CONTROLLED AT GRADE LEVEL REGARDLESS OF RACE SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS
BY 2EPUBLICANS POLITICS HAD BECOME MORE RANCOROUS NATIVE LANGUAGE SPECIAL NEEDS OR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
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THAN EVER BEFORE WERE HOME OWNERS CONTRIBUTING TO BANKRUPTCY 4HE DECIDING FACTOR WAS THE PROVISION THAT
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SECOND GRADE IN ONE COMMUNITY AND IN THIRD GRADE IN NECTIVITY lRST IMPLEMENTED BY 0HILADELPHIA IN
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TIME OF YEAR REGARDLESS OF WHAT SCHOOL THEY ARE IN 4HIS FROM WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE 3O AS THE POPULATION
IS GOOD NEWS FOR OUR INCREASINGLY MOBILE SOCIETY AS SHIFTS AND CHANGES STUDENTS MOVING FROM STATE TO STATE
CHILDREN MOVE FROM ONE TOWN TO ANOTHER OR ONE STATE OR COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY LOSE VERY LITTLE IN THE
TO ANOTHER THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH TRANSFER AS SCHOOLS MOVE TOWARDS A CURRICULUM IN WHICH
THE SAME CURRICULUM THEY DID THE YEAR BEFORE NOR THE SAME BASIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS ARE COVERED IN
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NEW LEVEL STUDENT INFORMATION
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SCHOOLS WERE THRIVING 4HE DIVIDE WAS NO LONGER TIME WITH NO INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION HAVE NOT COME
BETWEEN GOOD SCHOOL AND BAD SCHOOLS BUT RATHER GOOD TO PASS 7HILE THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT
SCHOOLS AND GREAT SCHOOLS /UR ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON INSURE THAT ALL STUDENTS ARE LEARNING THE SAME MATERIAL
WORKING WITH SCHOOLS TO INSURE THAT THE NATIONALIZATION AT APPROXIMATELY THE SAME TIME NATIONAL TEACHER LI
OF EDUCATION DID NOT LEAD TO A hONE SIZE lTS ALLv EDUCA CENSURE HAS REQUIRED ALL TEACHERS BE TRAINED IN RESEARCH
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ON THE SCHOOL LEADERS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES TO INSTITUTE STYLES 3CHOOLS OF EDUCATION HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED TO
SOME OF THE SAME REFORMS GOAL SETTING TRAINING FOR TEACH THESE TEACHING STRATEGIES TO THEIR TEACHER CAN
SCHOOL LEADERS INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS DIDATES SO THEY CAN GAIN APPRENTICE LICENSURE STATUS
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TEACHERS 3OON THE PARENTS OF STUDENTS IN PRIVATE AND TEACHERS ABILITY TO APPLY RESEARCH BASED TEACHING STRAT
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RAISING TAXES OR PASSING BOND ISSUES FOR THE SCHOOLS THE
BIRTH RATE WAS DROPPING AND THOSE WOMEN WHO WERE
3CARCE
HAVING BABIES WERE MORE OFTEN THAN NOT YOUNG AND
POOR )T LOOKED AS THOUGH 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION MIGHT
GO THE WAY OF THE DESKTOP OBLIVION "UT THANKS TO
THE GRASS ROOTS EFFORTS OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATIONS LOCAL CHALLENGES INCLUDE PARENTS TIME CONSTRAINTS INCREAS
CHAPTERS AND OUR h3CHOOLS FOR !LLv PARTNERSHIP WITH ING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND AN INSIDIOUS NEW FACTOR
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INTO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS ORGANIZERS TUTORS VOLUNTEERS BETWEEN THE hGOODv SCHOOLS AND THE hBADv SCHOOLS
AND CONTINUING LEARNERS 9OUR EFFORTS CREATED REALISTIC 4HAT GULF HAS BEEN SIGNIlCANTLY REDUCED 4HE TALK NOW
INCENTIVES FOR BABY BOOMERS TO HAVE A REAL STAKE IN THE IS NOT OF GOOD AND BAD SCHOOLS BUT GOOD AND GREAT
EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SCHOOLS -OST PARENTS ARE VERY SATISlED WITH THE EDUCA
LOCAL SCHOOL BUILDING AS A HUB FOR ALL GENERATIONS !ND TION OF THEIR CHILDREN AND WE ARE NOW IN DANGER OF
) AM THRILLED TO REPORT THAT OUR SENIOR MEMBERS ARE LOSING THEM TO COMPLACENCY 0ERHAPS WEVE DONE OUR
MAKING AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE ! FULL THIRD OF 0ARENTS JOB TOO WELL
FOR %DUCATIONS CURRENT MEMBERS ARE OVER 4HEY )F WE CONTINUE WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT
CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF A GOOD EDUCATION AND EASIER FOR BUSY PARENTS WHO ARE CURRENTLY NON
MEMBERS
THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY !S MUCH AS ANY ADDI
AND EVEN MORE SENIORS TO BECOME INVOLVED WITH OUR
TIONAL FUNDING THE SCHOOLS ARE RECEIVING THE IMPROVE
ORGANIZATION 7E CAN REACH OUT TO WIDELY DIVERSE COM
MENT IN PUBLIC EDUCATION IS DUE TO THE SELmESSNESS MUNITIES IN WAYS THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO TODAYS
CREATIVITY AND ENERGY OF OUR MEMBERS WHO ARE AND TRADITIONAL AND NON
TRADITIONAL FAMILIES AND WE CAN
OLDER ) HAVE RECOMMENDED TO 0RESIDENT
ELECT 3ANCHEZ PROVIDE TRAINING AND RESOURCES TO STRENGTHEN MEMBERS
AND YOUR EXECUTIVE BOARD THAT OUR ORGANIZATIONS NAME LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY SKILLS /UR ORGANIZATION HAS
BE CHANGED FROM 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION TO !MERICANS DEMONSTRATED THE POWER TO CREATE CHANGE AND BUILD A
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REPORT TO YOU THE EXCELLENT STATE OF OUR !MERICAN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS THANKS IN LARGE PART TO THE DILIGENT WORK
OF OUR MEMBERS "UT OUR WORK IS NOT DONE /UR NEW
4HE lVE CORE PRINCIPALS OF THE ."043 ARE 4EACHERS ARE COMMITTED TO STUDENTS AND THEIR LEARNING TEACHERS KNOW THE SUBJECTS THEY TEACH
AND HOW TO TEACH THOSE SUBJECTS TO STUDENTS TEACHERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING AND MONITORING STUDENT LEARNING TEACHERS THINK SYSTEMATICALLY
ABOUT THEIR PRACTICE AND LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE AND TEACHERS ARE MEMBERS OF LEARNING COMMUNITIES
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
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AM LEAVING IT A STRONGER AND MORE VIBRANT ORGANIZATION !S SCHOOLS INCREASINGLY OPEN THEIR DOORS TO THE
THAN IT WAS WHEN ) ARRIVED ) BELIEVE THAT ) AM LEAVING PUBLIC AND BECOME COMMUNITY HUBS SUPPORT FOR
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AGE STUDENTS WILL DECLINE SUPPORT
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SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES UNDERSTAND NOT ONLY THE STAKEHOLDERS FEEL CONNECTED TO THE SCHOOL
IMPORTANCE OF PARTNERSHIP BUT HOW EACH INDIVIDUAL &INALLY HISTORY HAS SHOWN THE ECONOMY TO BE CYCLIC
CAN BECOME INVOLVED TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF ALL OUR 7HILE RESOURCES ARE CURRENTLY VERY ABUNDANT WHAT WILL
CHILDREN HAPPEN AS THE ECONOMY DECLINES
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OF ALL STUDENTS 4HIS BROUGHT ABOUT THE ADOPTION OF A CURRICULUM COUPLED WITH NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS
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TEACHER LICENSURE IN EXCHANGE FOR FUNDING ! s .ATIONAL TEACHER LICENSURE
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EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF MANY CHILDREN BUT AT THE /PTIONS
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ALSO REMOVE THE HIGH POINTS AS IT REMOVES THE VALLEYS IMPORTANT THAT THE ORGANIZATION SEEK NOW TO BROADEN
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SENIORS SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS AND GIFTED STUDENTS WILL
MAKE THE ORGANIZATION STRONGER AND MORE RESPONSIVE
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NATIONAL CURRICULUM IS DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED )T
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ALL STUDENTS NOT MOST STUDENTS
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OF NATIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL STANDARDS AND NATIONAL
GOOD TIMES AND BAD WE HAVE BANDED TOGETHER AROUND
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s "Y THE YEAR lERCE INTERGENERATIONAL
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SUPERIORITY THE GOVERNMENT BACKS THE OLDER THEY NEED TO WORK FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR
GENERATION AND PAYS OUT WHAT LITTLE FREE MONIES CHILDRENS SCHOOLS
IT HAS TO 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE RECIPIENTS
LEAVING EVER DECREASING AMOUNTS FOR +n s %NCOURAGE PARENTAL AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN
EDUCATION SCHOOLS AT A GRASS ROOTS LEVEL
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4ODAY 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION FACES AN UNPRECEDENT AND WIDESPREAD PUBLIC DISSATISFACTION WITH .#,"
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SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN TO ADVOCATE FOR THE BENElTS OF BASED ON THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE 5NITED
PUBLIC EDUCATION -ORE AND MORE CHILDREN WERE BEING 3TATES MOSTLY FUNDED BY LOCAL PROPERTY TAXES 4HIS
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HOME SCHOOLED 3OME CHILDREN WERE ALREADY RECEIV #ONSTITUTION MEANING THAT AUTHORITY NOT DELEGATED TO
ING THEIR EDUCATION ONLINE /UR COUNTRY WAS HEAVILY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WAS RESERVED TO THE STATES
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INITIATIVES AND WAS SUSTAINING SERIAL BUDGET DElCITS THE !MERICAN PUBLIC WAS ALARMED BY THE APPARENT
IN THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 4HE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND DECLINE IN OUR COMPARATIVE ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
!CT .#," WHICH WAS PASSED WITH MUCH BI PARTI VIS Ü VIS OUR PRINCIPAL TRADE PARTNERS AN ALARM
SAN GOODWILL IN SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FORCE FOR ING DECLINE IN FOREIGN NATIONALS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF
GOOD 5NFORTUNATELY ITS APPLICATION AND ENFORCEMENT !MERICAN 0H$ PROGRAMS ESPECIALLY IN MATHEMATICS
CAUSED A BACKLASH BETWEEN MANY STATES AND THE FEDERAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING THOUSANDS MORE #HINESE AND
GOVERNMENT RIFTS WITHIN STATES AND DIVISIONS WITHIN )NDIAN ENGINEERING GRADUATES THAN SIMILAR !MERICAN
SCHOOL COMMUNITIES 4OO MANY SCHOOLS WERE FAILING GRADUATES AND CONTINUED POOR TEST RESULTS IN MATH
TO MAKE ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS !90 EVEN THE EMATICS AND SCIENCE AMONG !MERICAN +n STUDENTS
MORE AFmUENT SUBURBAN SCHOOLS /THER SCHOOLS WERE COMPARED WITH MANY OF OUR MOST COMPETITIVE TRADING
BEING TAKEN OVER OR SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY 4HE STATES PARTNERS !T THE SAME TIME OUR SENSE OF VULNERABILITY
ESPECIALLY THE MOST HIGHLY POPULOUS STATES HAD VERY TO ACTS OF TERRORISM BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD HAD NOT
LITTLE MONEY TO FUND IMPROVEMENTS NECESSARY TO MEET ABATED 6OTERS WERE READY FOR A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN
THE REQUIREMENTS OF .#," SO DISCONTENT WITH THE LAW THE SYSTEM
AND THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION ROSE TO A NEARLY $URING HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN AN OFF THE CUFF
MUTINOUS LEVEL AMONG THE STATES REPLY TO A BLOGGERS QUESTION ABOUT THE POOR STATE OF
!T THE SAME TIME ECONOMIC COMPETITION WITH OUR EDUCATION IN THE COUNTRY 3ENATOR &RIST COMMENTED
MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS BEGAN TO ESCALATE !S YOU KNOW THAT PERHAPS IT WAS TIME TO REVISIT THE TH !MEND
AT THE END OF THE TH CENTURY AFTER YEARS OF STRENU MENT AND THE FEDERAL ROLE IN EDUCATION 7HEN PRESSED
OUS NATIONAL EFFORT THE 5NITED 3TATES HAD WON THE THE CANDIDATE EXPLAINED THAT HE BELIEVED THE OLD
#OLD 7AR !LMOST IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER AT THE START SYSTEM OF LOCAL CONTROL OF +n EDUCATION WAS OUTDATED
OF THE ST CENTURY WE ENTERED A PERIOD OF UNPARAL BECAUSE THE NEW CENTURY BROUGHT WITH IT EDUCATIONAL
LELED TRADE WARS WITH COUNTRIES WHO DID NOT AND DO NOT CHALLENGES THAT COULD BE ADDRESSED BEST ONLY BY FEDERAL
SHARE OUR POLITICAL AND CULTURAL VALUES 3OME OF THOSE EFFORT )NSTEAD OF TRYING TO IMPLEMENT EDUCATIONAL
COUNTRIES PARTICULARLY )NDIA AND #HINA WERE GRADUAT REFORMS PIECE MEAL THROUGH THE TRADITIONAL MEANS OF
ING THOUSANDS MORE ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS THAN THE FEDERAL CARROTS AND STICKS HE SAID WE SHOULD AMEND
5NITED 3TATES FURTHER HEIGHTENING !MERICANS FEARS THE #ONSTITUTION TO PERMIT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO
CONCERNING OUR STRATEGIC TRADE COMPETITIVENESS AND ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR +n EDUCATION
PRIMACY IN THE WORLD .ATURALLY 3ENATOR &RISTS COMMENTS WERE FUEL FOR
4HIS NATIONAL ANXIETY COMBINED WITH INCREAS A MEDIA lRESTORM WITH PEOPLE EXPRESSING ASTONISH
ING BUDGET DElCITS CURRENT ACCOUNT DElCITS MASSIVE MENT THAT A CONSERVATIVE 2EPUBLICAN WAS PROPOSING TO
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
ABANDON THE LONG CHERISHED SYSTEM OF hLOCAL CONTROLv !BUNDANT
OF EDUCATION 0UNDITS AT lRST THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE
THE DEATH KNELL FOR THE &RIST CAMPAIGN BUT THE OP
POSITE OCCURRED 5NEXPECTEDLY VOTERS STEADILY WARMED
TO THE IDEA )T GAVE THEM A SENSE OF SECURITY THAT WE
,IMITED
3CHOOL #HOICES
-ANY
WERE lNALLY GOING TO GET OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM UNDER
2ESOURCES
CONTROL AND REGAIN OUR SUPERIORITY IN THE WORLD 3OME
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES AND MEMBERS OF #ONGRESS h) #ANT 'ET .O
3ATISFACTIONv
JUMPED ON THE BAND WAGON SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR
OTHERS TO FOLLOW 0UBLIC SUPPORT SLOWLY BUILT AND
3CARCE
3ENATOR &RIST WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT DESPITE THE RISK HE
HAD TAKEN 1UICKLY FOLLOWING HIS ELECTION #ONGRESS
PASSED A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FEDERALIZING +n
EDUCATION IN THE 5NITED 3TATES 3TATES IN TURN RATI
s ! SEEMING INABILITY TO TRAIN TEACHERS PROPERLY TO
lED THE AMENDMENT )N THE WAKE OF THE AMENDMENTS MEET THE NEEDS OF !MERICAN STUDENTS FACING THE
PASSAGE FEDERAL AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION ABOLISHED LOCAL COMPETITIVE RIGORS OF THE ST CENTURY
PROPERTY TAXES EARMARKED TO FUND LOCAL SCHOOLS AND IN
THEIR STEAD ESTABLISHED A NATIONAL SALES TAX TO PAY FOR )T IS NOT MY INTENTION IN THIS LETTER TO PAINT A HOPELESS
+n SCHOOLING PICTURE OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM /N THE CONTRARY )
lRMLY BELIEVE IN OUR NATIONS FUTURE "UT AS ) TAKE MY
4HE #URRENT 3ITUATION LEAVE ) MUST SPEAK THE TRUTH AS ) SEE IT AND ACKNOWL
EDGE OPENLY THE CONSTRAINTS WE FACE /NLY WITH A CLEAR
7ITH SO MUCH SUPPORT FOR THIS NEW APPROACH
VIEW OF WHERE WE HAVE BEEN CAN THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL
TO !MERICAN EDUCATION WHY IS THE PICTURE TODAY SO
CONTINUE THE lGHT FOR HIGH
QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION
GLOOMY !S ) TAKE MY LEAVE OF THIS lNE ORGANIZATION
CHART YOUR PATH TO THE FUTURE
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION FACES DAUNTING CHALLENGES TO ITS
MISSION !MONG THEM ARE THESE
$EMOGRAPHICS %CONOMICS AND .ATIONAL 3ECURITY
s ! RAPIDLY AGING POPULATION WITH WANING 0ERMIT ME TO ELABORATE ON THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHAL
COMMITMENT TO THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN LENGE FACING OUR ORGANIZATION AND OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
4HE NUMBER OF CHILDREN PER HOUSEHOLD CONTINUES TO
s ! FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STRUGGLING TO BALANCE
DROP AND THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN BORN TO MARRIED
SPENDING BETWEEN THE NEEDS OF OUR SENIOR CITIZENS
COUPLES IS LEADING THAT DROP )N MOST FAMILIES WITH TWO
AND OUR YOUNG
PARENTS BOTH PARENTS ARE WORKING 4HE NUMBER OF CHIL
s #OLOSSAL EXPENDITURES REQUIRED TO lGHT THE DREN BEING RAISED BY SINGLE MOTHERS IN POVERTY IS RISING
CONTINUING WAR ON TERROR AND PERSISTENT BUDGET !CCORDINGLY THERE SIMPLY ARE FEWER PARENTS THAN THERE
AND TRADE DElCITS ALL OF WHICH COMPETE FOR ONCE WERE TO JOIN AND SUPPORT 0ARENTS FOR %DUCA
DOMESTIC DISCRETIONARY SPENDING TION 7E ARE GRATEFUL FOR THOSE PARENTS WHO RECOGNIZE
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING INVOLVED IN THEIR CHILDRENS
s 0ARENTS WHO ARE WORKING LONGER HOURS AND IN EDUCATION AND WHO ARE ABLE TO JOIN BECAUSE THEY HAVE
SOME CASES ARE HOLDING DOWN TWO AND THREE JOBS THE TIME AND THE MONEY 5NFORTUNATELY THEY DO NOT
IN ORDER TO MAKE ENDS MEET REPRESENT THE BROAD SPECTRUM OF CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS
s !N OVERWHELMING AND BEWILDERING DIVERSITY OF TODAY 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION IS IN DANGER OF BECOMING
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN OUR SCHOOLS AND AN ORGANIZATION THAT NO LONGER REPRESENTS ALL FAMILIES
AND ALL STUDENTS BUT RATHER ONLY THOSE WHO ARE MIDDLE
AND UPPER MIDDLE CLASS
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
-ORE THAN PERCENT OF THE !MERICAN POPULA
IZED TESTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY 4HE ONLY DIFFERENCES
TION IS NOW OVER AND ONLY PERCENT ARE UNDER AMONG STUDENTS SHOW UP IN THE TESTING REPORTS RETURNED
YEARS OF AGE 4HE PEAK SPENDING YEARS FOR THE LARGEST TO DISTRICTS AND THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION IN
SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION ARE OVER 4HIS HAS MEANT WHICH SCORES ARE DISAGGREGATED BY RACIAL ETHNIC AND
A SUBSTANTIAL DROP IN CONSUMER SPENDING AND A MAJOR SOCIO
ECONOMIC SUBGROUPS 2ESEARCH HAS YET TO DETER
DECLINE IN THE ECONOMY 7ORSE THE OVER
GENERATION MINE WHETHER THIS GREAT NATIONAL EXPERIMENT WILL HELP
IS RECEIVING A DISPROPORTIONATELY LARGE PERCENTAGE OF MOST STUDENTS LEARN OR BECOME BETTER LEARNERS .OR HAS
OUR NATIONAL BUDGET FOR 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE EXPERIENCE YET SHOWN WHETHER THIS NEW EDUCATIONAL
WHICH HAS BECOME A HUGE UNPRODUCTIVE DRAIN ON THE REALITY WILL IMPROVE OUR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS
ECONOMY !DD TO THAT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY SPENDING 7ITH SCANT SUPPORT FROM THEIR DISTRICTS AND THE
AND INTEREST EXPENSE ON THE NATIONS INDEBTEDNESS AND NATION OUR MOST TALENTED TEACHERS HAVE BEEN mEEING
WERE LEFT WITH COMPARATIVELY LITTLE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE PROFESSION CHOOSING INSTEAD TO MAKE A LIVING BY TU
OUR SCHOOLS DESPITE THE CONSTITUTIONAL SHIFT IN +n TORING OR ENTERING OTHER PROFESSIONS ENTIRELY INASMUCH
RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE STATES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERN
AS THE MARKET FOR PRIVATE AND CHARTER SCHOOLS CONTRACT
MENT 5NCOMFORTABLY OUR GOVERNMENT IS CAUGHT IN THE ED ALONG WITH ECONOMIC ACTIVITY 7ITH FEWER TEACHERS
UNENVIABLE POSITION OF HAVING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO AND LARGER CLASSES THE POSSIBILITIES FOR INDIVIDUALIZED
POPULATIONS THE YOUNG OR THE OLD 4HE GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTION AND CHOICE WITHIN SCHOOLS VIRTUALLY HAVE
HAS REPEATEDLY POSTPONED OPPORTUNITIES TO INVEST IN DISAPPEARED
FUTURE GENERATIONS BOWING TO THE PRESSURES EXERTED BY 4HE NEW EDUCATIONAL REALITY DELIVERED AN EXTREME
THE BABY BOOMERS LEAVING OUR YOUNGSTERS IN MEDIOCRE BLOW TO THE HEALTH OF EXISTING SCHOOL REFORM MOVE
SCHOOLS WITH RUN
DOWN BUILDINGS )N SOME SITUATIONS MENTS &OR EXAMPLE EVEN THE FOUNDATION MOVEMENT TO
SCHOOLS SUFFER FROM A DEARTH OF SUPPLIES AND TECHNOLOGY IMPROVE OUR SCHOOLS LED BY THE WORLDS RICHEST INDIVID
AND STUDENTS ROUTINELY RECEIVE LACKLUSTER INSTRUCTION UAL -ICROSOFTS "ILL 'ATES WAS DRASTICALLY SCALED BACK
!S YOU MIGHT EXPECT PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAVE ADOPTED 4HIS IS NOTABLE BECAUSE IT WAS 'ATES WHO IN
AN EXPEDIENT VIEW OF WHAT IT MEANS TO PROVIDE A SUIT
CALLED OUR HIGH SCHOOLS hOBSOLETEv AND RALLIED THE STATE
ABLE EDUCATION 3TRIPPED OF THEIR HISTORICAL AUTHORITY GOVERNORS TO A VISION OF HIGH SCHOOLS THAT WOULD BE
BY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS SMALLER MORE INDIVIDUALIZED AND lLLED WITH ADVANCED
HAVE BECOME MERE PURCHASING AGENTS CONTRACTING WITH LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 4HE HIGH SCHOOL REFORMS UN
LOCAL AND NATIONAL SUPPLIERS FOR CURRICULUM TESTS AND DERWAY IN WERE BROUGHT TO A HALT BY THE ADOPTION
INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES THAT PURPORTEDLY MEET FEDERAL OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS )N 0RESIDENT &RIST CONTINUED THE "USH POLICIES
5NDER OUR NATIONALIZED REGIMEN FOR +n EDUCA
OF PRE
EMPTIVE MILITARY ACTION WITH STRIKES ON .ORTH
TION AND DUE TO BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS IN THE COUNTRY +OREA AND )RAN INCURRING A FURTHER DRAIN ON OUR NA
SCHOOLS NOW OFFER VERY LITTLE INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION FOR TIONAL TREASURY AND INCREASING THE DElCIT BY HUNDREDS
THOSE STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL GIFTS SPECIAL NEEDS LAN
OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 4HESE MILITARY ACTIONS WHILE TAC
GUAGE DElCITS OR EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS 7E NOW HAVE TICALLY SUCCESSFUL IN THE SHORT
TERM ELIMINATING THE
A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT EMPHASIZES hTHE THREE 2Sv NUCLEAR THREAT REPRESENTED BY THESE TWO ROGUE NATIONS
AND SCIENCE BUT SPONSORS FEW SPORTS PHYSICAL EDUCA
CREATED SO MANY ENEMIES FOR THE 5NITED 3TATES THAT
TION lNE ARTS INDUSTRIAL ARTS OR HOME ECONOMICS &AMI
WE ARE NOW IN THE POSITION OF HAVING TO SPEND IN REAL
LIES WITH THE INCOME AND MOTIVATION TO PROVIDE THEIR TERMS MORE MONEY ON ANTI
TERRORISM MEASURES THAN WE
CHILDREN WITH @NON
STANDARD ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES DID IN THE lRST DECADE OF THE ST CENTURY !S A RESULT
DO SO BUT OTHERS SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD IT &URTHER ALL OF THESE POLICIES THE KILLING AND MAIMING OF CITIZENS
53 SCHOOL CHILDREN STUDY THE SAME SUBJECT MATTER AT OF THE INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES BY TERRORIST GROUPS HAS
THE SAME TIME ARE TASKED WITH UNIFORM ASSIGNMENTS BECOME A GRIM BUT ALMOST ROUTINE DISRUPTION TO OUR
REGARDLESS OF THEIR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AND DAY
TO
DAY LIVES
SIMULTANEOUSLY TAKE THE SAME COMPUTERIZED STANDARD
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
%LECTION OF !BUNDANT
0RESIDENT &RISTS RE
ELECTION CAMPAIGN BROUGHT MANY
OF THESE ISSUES INTO THE PUBLIC ARENA FOR DEBATE 6OTERS
WERE TORN BETWEEN THE VERY REAL LIFE
AND
DEATH ISSUES OF
,IMITED
NATIONAL SECURITY AND DOMESTIC PRIORITIES AS WELL AS THE 3CHOOL #HOICES
-ANY
INTERGENERATIONAL lSCAL TENSION BETWEEN OLD AND YOUNG
2ESOURCES
)N SPITE OF AN ESPECIALLY STRONG CHALLENGE FROM THE
$EMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE -ARK 7ARNER AND h) #ANT 'ET .O
3ATISFACTIONv
A WEAK THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE 0RESIDENT &RIST WAS RE
ELECTED IN BY A THIN MARGIN OF %LECTORAL #OLLEGE 3CARCE
VOTES
(OWEVER ALONG WITH THE RE
ELECTION OF 0RESIDENT
&RIST CAME A REVOLT AMONG OLDER VOTERS AGAINST THE
NATIONS TAX BURDEN ,IKE VOTERS IN #ALIFORNIA IN FUNDING WE NEED TO INmUENCE MEMBERS OF #ONGRESS TO
WHO SUPPORTED 0ROPOSITION WHICH CUT PROPERTY SUPPORT REFORMS FOR OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TAXES BY PERCENT LIKE VOTERS IN -ASSACHUSETTS IN #LEARLY OUR APPROACH AND TACTICS NEED TO CHANGE
WHO DEMANDED LOWER PROPERTY TAXES THAT RESULTED 7E HAVE TWO YEARS BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION AND
IN LESS FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS AND LIKE VOTERS IN #OLORADO WE NEED TO SPEND THEM COURTING THE OVER
VOTERS
WHO PASSED THE 4!"/2 AMENDMENT TO THE STATES 7ITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UP THE
CONSTITUTION LIMITING TAX INCREASES IN OUR SENIOR LARGEST POPULATION BLOCK IN THE COUNTRY OUR AGENDA FOR
CITIZENS SUCCESSFULLY MOBILIZED A VOTER REVOLT AGAINST PARENT INVOLVEMENT SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
ANY FURTHER INCREASES IN TAXATION BY THE FEDERAL GOVERN
ASSISTANCE FOR PARENTS IN PROMOTING THE HEALTH SAFETY
MENT AND EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN IS NOT GOING TO SUCCEED
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION AND ITS MEMBERS HAVE WORKED !S ) DEPART AS PRESIDENT OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION ) ASK
HARD TO CONVINCE #ONGRESS TO ALLOCATE SMALL INCREASES ALL OF OUR MEMBERS TO WORK TOGETHER TO lND NEW SOLU
IN FUNDING FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUT SADLY WITHOUT TIONS THAT ADDRESS THESE CONTINUING PROBLEMS 9OUR NEW
EXCEPTION SUCH PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN VOTED DOWN LEADERS HAVE A HARD ROAD IN FRONT OF THEM AND THEY ARE
OFTEN NOT EVEN SURVIVING COMMITTEE VOTES 4HERE IS GOING TO NEED YOUR HELP /UR CONTINUED EXISTENCE AS
LITTLE ENTHUSIASM AMONG THE ELDERLY TO ADD TO THEIR TAX AN ORGANIZATION AND A SATISFACTORY FUTURE FOR THE NEXT
BURDEN TO PAY FOR ACROSS
THE
BOARD SPENDING INCREASES GENERATION OF !MERICANS DEPENDS UPON IT
FOR SCHOOLS THAT THEY DO NOT APPROVE OF OR USE
"EST WISHES FOR NEW SUCCESSES -ARY 2OLLINS7ASHINGTON
.EW 2OLE FOR 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION $#0RESIDENT 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION
7HAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF 0ARENTS
FOR %DUCATION )TS BECOME VERY DIFlCULT TO RALLY GRASS !NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO
ROOTS SUPPORT FOR #ONGRESSIONAL FUNDING INITIATIVES TAX
INCREASES OR SPECIALIZED NATIONAL DEBT INSTRUMENTS THAT )MPLICATIONS
WOULD HELP IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF OUR SCHOOL BUILDINGS 4HE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY
THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS AND THE AVAILABILITY OF HIGH
FOR +n EDUCATION IN THE 53 PURSUANT TO THE
QUALITY TEACHING MATERIALS /UR WORK IS MADE EVEN ADOPTION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
MORE CHALLENGING BY THE DRASTIC REDUCTION IN MEMBERS
OVER THE PAST DECADE )N WE ENJOYED SIX MILLION 3CHOOLS ARE UNDER
FUNDED
MEMBERS TODAY THERE ARE ABOUT THREE MILLION ON OUR
/UR BEST TEACHERS ARE LEAVING THE PROFESSION AND
MEMBERSHIP ROLLS 7ITHOUT A DRAMATIC AND SUDDEN
IT IS INCREASINGLY DIFlCULT TO RECRUIT NEW ONES
BOOST IN OUR MEMBERSHIP WE CANNOT PROVIDE THE
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION IS ABLE TO EXERT LESS INmU /WING TO DECREASING BUDGETS FOR THEM FEWER
ENCE ON MEMBERS OF #ONGRESS FEDERAL REGULATORS NON ACADEMIC MUSIC lNE ARTS INDIVIDUAL SPORTS
AND STATE LEGISLATORS SUBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES ARE OFFERED IN TRADITIONAL
SCHOOLS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
&EWER EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND FEWER SUBJECT OFFER A CURRICULUM LIMITED TO ACADEMIC SUBJECTS
MATTER CHOICES WITHIN SCHOOLS MEAN GRADUATES ARE ONLY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES VOICE MORE AND
LEAVING THE +n SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH A NARROW MORE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE INTELLECTUAL ARIDITY OF
AND LIMITED VIEW OF THE WORLD INCOMING FRESHMEN
3CHOOL BOARDS ARE LITTLE MORE THAN PURCHASING !N INCREASING NUMBER OF CHARTER SCHOOLS FUNDED
AGENTS BY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGETS ARE MANAGED BY
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION FAILS TO BUILD ITS MEMBER PRIVATE SECTOR FOR PROlT AND NONPROlT ENTITIES
SHIP QUICKLY ENOUGH AND ITS BUDGET SUFFERS AC SCHOOLS SUBJECT TO RE CONSTITUTION BY .#," ARE
CORDINGLY MANAGED BY PRIVATE SECTOR FOR PROlT AND NONPROF
IT ENTITIES AND SUBJECT MATTER CURRICULUM IN TRADI
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION IS IN DANGER OF REPRESENTING TIONAL SCHOOLS IS HIGHLY SCRIPTED AND FURNISHED BY
THE MIDDLE AND UPPER CLASSES COMMERCIAL PUBLISHERS
0&% CANNOT ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS TO ITS RANKS IN
)NDICATORS
ALL OF THE STATES AND CANNOT AFFORD WIDESPREAD LOB
)NTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF TEST SCORES IN MATH
BYING EFFORTS IT USED TO ENJOY IN ITS HEYDAY
EMATICS AND SCIENCE CONTINUE TO SHOW !MERICAN
STUDENTS LAGGING BEHIND THOSE OF OUR MOST COM
4HE DEMOGRAPHIC PROlLE OF ITS CURRENT MEMBERS
PETITIVE TRADING PARTNERS IS PRIMARILY MIDDLE TO UPPER MIDDLE CLASS IT HAS
NOT SUCCESSFULLY ATTRACTED SUBSTANTIAL MEMBERS OF
3CHOOL lNANCE LAWSUITS AGAINST STATE GOVERN
LESSER MEANS AND THE CONCERNS OF ITS MEMBERS ARE
MENTS CONTINUE TO BE PURSUED BY FRUSTRATED NOT FOCUSED ON LOWER INCOME FAMILIES
PARENTS 3TATE SUPREME COURTS CONTINUE TO lND
THAT THEIR LEGISLATURES HAVE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY
/PTIONS
UNDER
FUNDED STATE AID TO EDUCATION
"ECAUSE IT CANNOT INCREASE ITS DWINDLING MEMBERSHIP
4URNOVER IN THE TEACHING RANKS INCREASES FEWER BASE BY ITS TRADITIONAL APPEALS TO PARENTS OF SCHOOL AGED
OF THE BEST HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ENTER COLLEGE CHILDREN IN EVERY SOCIO
ECONOMIC CATEGORY 0&% MAY
PLANNING A CAREER IN +n TEACHING AND TEACHER NEED TO CONSIDER ENLARGING ITS MEMBERSHIP BASE BY WID
PAY DOES NOT KEEP PACE WITH THE COST OF LIVING ENING ITS MISSION AND WORKING TO ATTRACT A MORE DIVERSE
AND THE PAY OF OTHER KNOWLEDGE WORKERS SET OF MEMBERS &OR EXAMPLE THERE MIGHT BE A NICHE OF
OLDER !MERICANS WHO WOULD JOIN 0&% IF IT APPEALED TO
0&% FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES ARE NOT ENACTED
THAT GROUPS SENSE OF PATRIOTISM AND TRADITIONAL VALUES
BY #ONGRESS NOR IS STATE FUNDING COMMENSURATE
ESPECIALLY IF THERE WERE A LESSER MEMBERSHIP FEE BASED
WITH THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES POSED BY THE
ON THE AGE OF THAT PROSPECTIVE CLASS OF MEMBERS !S IT
STRATEGIC COMPETITION EXERTED BY OUR INTERNA
STRIVES TO ENLARGE ITS BASE THE ORGANIZATION WILL PROB
TIONAL TRADING PARTNERS 0&%S INABILITY TO QUICKLY
ABLY NEED TO CHANGE ITS NAME IN ORDER TO EXPRESS THE
INCREASE ITS MEMBERSHIP AND lLL ITS COFFERS DEPRIVE
BROADER MISSION IT WILL HAVE TO UNDERTAKE )T ALSO WILL
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE RESOURCES TO LOBBY STATES
NEED TO INVEST IN A MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE ITS
AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVELY
VISIBILITY AMONG PARENT AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !BUNDANT
!SSOCIATION 3CENARIO h)MAGINEv
$EEP #AUSES
,IMITED
3CHOOL #HOICES
-ANY
4HIS SCENARIO ASSUMES THAT MOST SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY
FUNDED AND THAT MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCHOOLS ARE
2ESOURCES
AVAILABLE TO PARENTS ! VARIETY OF SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE
ORGANIZATIONS HAVE RECEIVED FUNDING FROM THE STATES TO
ESTABLISH SCHOOLS DESIGNED TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF CHIL
DREN WITH EVERY LEARNING STYLE AND EVERY TALENT 3CARCE
4HE FOLLOWING DEEP CAUSES COULD LEAD TO THIS SCENARIO
s 4HE NUMBER OF SCHOOLS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT $EAR -EMBERS
UNDER THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT .#,"
!S 0RESIDENT OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION FOR THE PAST
CONTINUES TO INCREASE AND DISTRICTS ARE NOT
YEARS ) HAVE BEEN HONORED TO SERVE YOU PARENTS
SUCCESSFUL IN TURNING AROUND THESE SCHOOLS
AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE DEDICATED TO THE
s .#," IS SUBJECT TO SO MANY LAWSUITS FROM STATES EDUCATION HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ALL CHILDREN 4OGETHER
DISTRICTS AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT THE WE ARE ENTERING A POSITIVE NEW ERA FOR THE EDUCATION OF
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS FORCED TO BACK OFF FROM OUR CHILDREN 4HIS NEW ERA IS DUE IN LARGE PART TO THE
ITS DEMANDS )NSTEAD #ONGRESS VOTES TO PROVIDE EFFORTS OF THIS ORGANIZATION SO ) AM WRITING THIS LETTER
FEDERAL FUNDING FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS TO THE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND CONGRATULATE YOU
STATES IN THE FORM OF BLOCK GRANTS WITH MINIMAL ON YOUR SUCCESS
STRINGS ATTACHED 4HIS SPECIAL NEWSLETTER IS DEVOTED TO THREE TOPICS
&IRST ) REVIEW OUR ORGANIZATIONS EFFORTS TO CREATE OUR
s 3TATES DECIDE TO USE THEIR NEW FUNDING TO ISSUE CURRENT PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT OFFERS A WIDE ARRAY
2EQUESTS FOR 0ROPOSALS FROM A VARIETY OF ENTITIES OF ADEQUATELY
FUNDED SCHOOLING CHOICES FOR MOST
INTERESTED IN RUNNING THE SCHOOLS 4HEY WILL STUDENTS ) SAY hMOSTv BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW WE STILL
CONSIDER PROVIDING FUNDING ONLY TO THOSE ENTITIES HAVE AN UNACCEPTABLY HIGH NUMBER OF SCHOOLS THAT ARE
WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED SUCCESS IN IMPROVING NOT DOING A GOOD ENOUGH JOB OF PREPARING STUDENTS FOR
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT HIGHER EDUCATION OR A VOCATION AND THEREFORE WE STILL
s %CONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE COUNTRY HAVE HAVE WORK TO DO 3ECOND ) DESCRIBE THE TRAJECTORY OF
IMPROVED MAINLY DUE TO IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY POLITICAL EVENTS THAT PLAYED A CONSIDERABLE PART IN THESE
FOR RETRIEVING EXISTING OIL DEPOSITS IN THE 5NITED CHANGES 4HIRD ) OUTLINE A VISION FOR THE ROLE ) BELIEVE
3TATES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVE SOURCES THIS ORGANIZATION SHOULD PLAY AS OUR SCHOOLS CONTINUE
OF ENERGY LEADING TO 53 CITIZENS ENJOYING TO GROW AND EVOLVE
ABUNDANT ENERGY AT LOW COST
4HE 2OLE OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION
)N SPITE OF THE OPTIMISTIC STATE OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
h)MAGINEv TODAY ) MUST BEGIN BY SAYING THAT TOO MANY CHILDREN
4IME *UNE ARE STILL BEING LEFT BEHIND ) AM SURE THOSE WORDS BRING
0LACE 7ASHINGTON $# BACK MEMORIES OF A TIME IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN SCHOOL
DISTRICTS AND STATES WERE FACING OFF WITH THE 0RESIDENT
3CENE 3PECIAL NEWSLETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF
AND #ONGRESS OVER THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND .#,"
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION TO ITS MEMBERS
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
LEGISLATION 4HE YEARS n WERE A DIFlCULT TO STATES RIGHTS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS INTERFER
PERIOD THAT INCLUDED A RASH OF SCHOOL lNANCE LAWSUITS ENCE 4HE PUBLIC IN HAD ALREADY LOST PATIENCE
SCANDALS OVER USING !MERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO FUND OVER
WITH THE OVERREACHING OF #ONGRESS IN FOR EXAMPLE
SEAS TUTORING COMPANIES WITH QUESTIONABLE CREDENTIALS THE hRIGHT TO DIEv CASE OF BRAIN
INJURED 4ERRY 3CHIAVO
AND EXPERTISE AND MOUNTING CRITICISM OF THE FEDERAL AND THE ADMINISTRATIONS PROPOSAL TO TRANSFORM 3OCIAL
GOVERNMENTS INTRUSION INTO LOCAL EDUCATION WITHOUT 3ECURITY INTO A PERSONAL INVESTMENT PLAN THAT MANY
PROVIDING COMMENSURATE RESOURCES TO THE STATES VIEWED AS TOO RISKY )N ADDITION THE SUSPECTED MISDEEDS
.#," HAD THE BEST INTENTIONS IT AIMED TO ENSURE OF THE LEADER OF THE (OUSE OF 2EPRESENTATIVES AND THE
THAT ALL CHILDREN REGARDLESS OF RACE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 3ENATES IMPASSE OVER CONlRMATION OF JUDICIAL NOMI
OR SOCIO
ECONOMIC STATUS WOULD SUCCEED (OWEVER NEES LED TO WIDESPREAD DISTRUST AND EVEN DISGUST WITH
BECAUSE OF THE RELENTLESS REQUIREMENTS FOR hADEQUATELY THE FEDS
YEARLY PROGRESSv !90 AND SANCTIONS FOR MISSING THESE 2ESPONDING TO PUBLIC SENTIMENT WE FOCUSED OUR
TARGETS MANY SCHOOLS WERE TAGGED AS hFAILINGv AND ATTENTION ON THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF /UR
CLOSED OR RECONSTITUTED IN SOME FASHION BECAUSE ONE OR 0!# WORKED HARD TO RAISE MONEY TO SUPPORT THOSE
TWO SUB
GROUPS DID NOT ATTAIN ACCEPTABLE PROGRESS 4HIS CANDIDATES FOR THE 3ENATE AND THE (OUSE OF 2EPRESEN
HAD A DIRECT EFFECT ON OUR CHILDRENS EDUCATION !S THEIR TATIVES WHO AGREED WITH US ABOUT THE NEED FOR EFFEC
LOCAL SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED OUR CHILDREN RODE BUSES TO TIVE SCHOOLS THAT WOULD RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF LOCAL
SCHOOLS IN DISTANT NEIGHBORHOODS 4HESE SCHOOLS SOON COMMUNITIES $URING THOSE ELECTIONS WE MADE A MAJOR
BECAME OVERCROWDED AND PLAGUED BY MANY OF THE SAME ISSUE OF STATES RIGHTS WHICH WAS AN IRONIC TWIST THE
PROBLEMS OF THE FAILING SCHOOLS THEY REPLACED 3AD
SAME BABY BOOMERS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST STATES RIGHTS
DENED AND THEN ANGRY AT THIS DEVELOPMENT MEMBERS DURING THE #IVIL 2IGHTS -OVEMENT WERE NOW ACTIVE
OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION DECIDED ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH IN OUR lGHT 4HIS TIME THE ISSUE WAS PERCEIVED DIFFER
4HROUGHOUT THESE PAST YEARS WE USED OUR VOICE AND ENTLY AND THE PUBLIC RAISED THE QUESTION IF THE FEDERAL
OUR VOTE TO MAKE THE CHANGES NEEDED ON BEHALF OF OUR GOVERNMENT STARTED TELLING STATES AND LOCAL COMMUNI
CHILDREN #ONSEQUENTLY WE NO LONGER HAVE A SYSTEM TIES HOW TO RUN THE SCHOOLS WHAT WOULD BE NEXT 4HE
THAT IS BUILT ON FAILURE AND LIMITATIONS BUT ONE THAT SCHOOL ISSUE COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A SLIPPERY SLOPE
FOCUSES ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND HAS THE RESOURCES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT USING ITS POWERS TO TAKE OVER
TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE MANY FUNCTIONS THAT WERE ASSIGNED TO THE STATES BY OUR
)N WE STARTED LEVERAGING OUR SECRET WEAPON #ONSTITUTION
THE BABY BOOMERS %XPERIENCED PROTESTERS FROM THE
S THE NOW
IN
THEIR
SIXTIES BOOMERS SPEARHEADED 4HE .EW 6ISION FOR 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
POLITICAL PROTESTS LOCALLY AND IN 7ASHINGTON $# /UR CAMPAIGNS WERE VERY SUCCESSFUL !FTER THE ELEC
DEMANDING THAT #ONGRESS ADDRESS THE ASPECTS OF THE TIONS OF THE BALANCE OF POWER IN #ONGRESS SHIFTED
.#," LEGISLATION THAT WERE CAUSING TOO MANY SCHOOLS 4HE NEW #ONGRESS WHO KNEW THEY WERE DEALING WITH
TO BE LABELED AS FAILING (OW WERE WE ABLE TO GET THE A SECOND
TERM ADMINISTRATION SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY
BABY BOOMERS SO INVOLVED 4HE EARLY RETIREES WHO HAD TO QUESTION MANY OF THE PROGRAMS THAT 0RESIDENT "USH
SPENT THEIR CAREERS IN BUSINESS LAW PUBLISHING HIGH AND HIS #ABINET ADVOCATED AND THEIR JUDICIAL NOMI
TECHNOLOGY OR RUNNING THEIR OWN SMALL BUSINESSES WERE NATIONS &OR THE lRST TIME SINCE 3EPTEMBER
READY TO DO SOMETHING THEY CONSIDERED MORE hMEAN
MEMBERS OF #ONGRESS FROM THE PRESIDENTS OWN PARTY
INGFULv /NCE WE MADE CONTACT THE MEMBERS OF THIS PROPOSED IDEAS AND PROGRAMS WHICH WERE IN DIRECT OP
BOOMER GENERATION WERE DELIGHTED TO CHANNEL THEIR POSITION TO THOSE OF THE ADMINISTRATION /NE OF THOSE
TIME AND ENERGY INTO A CAUSE THEY CONSIDERED IMPOR
PROGRAMS WAS THE CREATION OF BLOCK GRANTS TO THE STATES
TANT AND WORTHWHILE TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION /F COURSE THERE WAS PLENTY
/UR TIMING WAS FORTUNATE 4HESE PROTESTS AND A OF RESISTANCE BUT AFTER MANY COMPROMISES ON ALL SIDES
MASS )NTERNET CAMPAIGN SUCCEEDED IN RAISING THE LEVEL BY #ONGRESS HAD AGREED AT LEAST IN PRINCIPLE
OF AWARENESS AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE THREAT UPON A PLAN THAT LEFT THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
ENTIRELY TO THE STATES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES )T TOOK !BUNDANT
ANOTHER FEW YEARS TO PUT THAT PLAN INTO ACTION BUT WITH
OUR HELP BY #ONGRESS HAD LAID THE BASIC FOUNDA
h)MAGINEv
TION FOR OUR EXISTING SCHOOL SYSTEM
)N #ONGRESS OUTLINED A PLAN THAT WOULD SET
,IMITED
3CHOOL #HOICES
-ANY
UP BLOCK GRANTS FOR THE STATES &EDERAL FUNDING WHICH
2ESOURCES
AT THAT TIME MADE UP ONLY SEVEN PERCENT OF THE STATES
EDUCATION BUDGETS AND ALLOWED THE STATES VERY LITTLE
CONTROL OVER HOW TO SPEND THAT MONEY WOULD BE FUN
NELED INTO THE BLOCK GRANTS !LL ENTITLEMENT MONIES
3CARCE
AND MONEY THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN USED TO PAY FOR
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF .#," WOULD GO TO THE STATES
4HE STATES WOULD ADD THAT MONEY TO THEIR LOCAL PROP
ERTY TAX DOLLARS AND CAREFULLY FUND ONLY THOSE ENTITIES RIA FOR APPLICANTS REVIEW EVERY APPLICATION AND CHECK
THAT OFFERED THE GREATEST PROMISE TO CREATE THE MOST EVERY REFERENCE
EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS 4HE GUIDELINES THAT #ONGRESS LAID OUT
/NE OF THE MAIN DECISIONS FACING THE STATES WAS
ESSENTIALLY DEREGULATED SCHOOLS CREATING A FREE
MARKET HOW THEY WOULD HOLD THE SCHOOLS ACCOUNTABLE 4HE DE
SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS 3TATES WOULD HOLD WHAT CISION TO MAINTAIN A SYSTEM OF ANNUAL TESTING WAS MADE
AMOUNTED TO A COMPETITION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING MUCH EASIER WHEN THE MAJOR TEST PUBLISHERS PERFECTED
BUT ONLY THOSE ENTITIES WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD ONLINE VERSIONS OF THEIR INSTRUMENTS "Y TESTS OF
FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT NEED APPLY %XISTING SCHOOL PROlCIENCY ON INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS STANDARDS
DISTRICTS COULD APPLY FOR FUNDING ALONG WITH PRIVATE COULD BE ADMINISTERED ONLINE AND IN REAL TIME AT ANY
COMPANIES UNIVERSITIES AND EVEN INDIVIDUALS "UT ALL TIME DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE
APPLICATIONS WOULD BE CAREFULLY REVIEWED ACCORDING TO SCHOOL ITSELF 4HE RESULTS INCLUDING EXTENSIVE DIAGNOS
STRICT CRITERIA TIC INFORMATION ABOUT EACH STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING
&OUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS WOULD BE ENCOUR
OF EVERY STANDARD WERE GIVEN TO THE SCHOOLS WITHIN
AGED TO START PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH THEIR OWN FUNDING HOURS SO THEY COULD USE THEM TO CREATE INDIVIDUAL
BUT ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS WOULD BE REQUIRED TO TURN IN STUDENT LEARNING PLANS )N ADDITION TEST RESULTS PROVID
THEIR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA AND PARENT SATISFAC
ED INFORMATION ABOUT PROGRESS BEING MADE BY INDIVIDU
TION SURVEYS )F ANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS REGARDLESS OF THEIR
AL STUDENTS ALLOWING STATES TO HOLD SCHOOLS ACCOUNTABLE
FUNDING SOURCE WERE NOT ACHIEVING ACCORDING TO THE FOR GROWTH IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AS OPPOSED TO ONLY
CRITERIA LAID OUT BY THE STATES OR IF PARENTS WERE DIS
WHETHER OR NOT ALL STUDENTS HAD REACHED A PRESCRIBED
SATISlED WITH THEIR CHILDRENS EDUCATION THE SCHOOL LEVEL OF PROlCIENCY 4HIS CHANGE IN ASSESSMENT AND AC
WOULD BE REQUIRED TO CREATE AND IMPLEMENT A 3CHOOL COUNTABILITY SYSTEMS HAS RESULTED IN FEWER SCHOOLS BEING
)MPROVEMENT 0LAN /N THE OTHER HAND THOSE SCHOOLS LABELED AS IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT
WHOSE STUDENTS ACHIEVED BEYOND THE PROlCIENT LEVEL )N ADDITION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT THANKS TO
AND WHOSE PARENTS GAVE THEIR SCHOOLS HIGH MARKS OUR ADVOCACY FOR PARENTS SCHOOLS NOW MUST ADMINISTER
WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR BONUSES PARENT SATISFACTION SURVEYS AND REPORT THE RESULTS TO THE
STATES ! HIGH LEVEL OF PARENT SATISFACTION CAN MILITATE
)MPLEMENTING THE 6ISION AGAINST THE CONSEQUENCE FOR LOW ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS
/NCE THE STATES RECEIVED THIS PROGRAM OUTLINE FROM AS LONG AS THE SCHOOL IS DEMONSTRATING OVERALL PROGRESS
#ONGRESS AT THE END OF THEY BEGAN LOOKING FOR !TTENTION TO THE SATISFACTION OF PARENTS HAS HELPED
PARTNERS TO HELP THEM IMPLEMENT THE DETAILS 7E WERE PREVENT MANY FAMILIES FROM mEEING THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD
ONE OF THE AGENCIES THAT PLAYED A PROMINENT DECISION
SCHOOLS OUT OF SHEER FRUSTRATION AND HAS EMPOWERED
MAKING ROLE IN MANY STATES /UR MEMBERS WORKED WITH THEM TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT IS BEST FOR
3TATE $EPARTMENTS OF %DUCATION TO CREATE SPECIlC CRITE
THEIR OWN CHILDREN /F COURSE IMPROVEMENT PLANS ARE
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
STILL REQUIRED FOR THOSE SCHOOLS NOT ACHIEVING ACCEPT BECOMING INCREASINGLY MULTICULTURAL AND %,, PRO
ABLE MARKS ON THE TESTS AND THE PARENT SURVEYS BUT THE GRAMS FOR THOSE NON NATIVE %NGLISH SPEAKING STUDENTS
TOTAL NUMBER OF SCHOOLS IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT HAS SO WHO NEEDED TO LEARN TO SPEAK READ AND WRITE IT WELL
DRAMATICALLY DECLINED DUE TO THE NEW ACCOUNTABILITY ENOUGH TO SUCCEED IN THE WORLD OF WORK
METHODS THAT STATE DEPARTMENTS AND OTHER CONSULTING 4HE RESULT OF ALL THIS EFFORT IS THAT IN MANY AREAS OF
AGENCIES CAN MEET THE NEED WITH RESEARCH BASED TECH THE COUNTRY THERE IS A WEALTH OF CHOICES FOR PARENTS
NICAL ASSISTANCE MANY PROGRAMS FOR GIFTED STUDENTS STUDENTS WITH
/NE DISADVANTAGE TO THIS PLAN HAS BEEN THE LACK SPECIAL NEEDS ARTISTIC STUDENTS AND STUDENTS WITH
OF DATA TO COMPARE STUDENTS FROM STATE TO STATE AND SPECIAL ATHLETIC ABILITIES AND HIGH QUALITY INSTRUCTION
FROM THE 53 TO OTHER COUNTRIES 3INCE THE $EPART FOR MOST 4HERE ARE UNFORTUNATELY STILL STATES IN THIS
MENT OF %DUCATION ABANDONED THE .!%0 AND 4)--3 COUNTRY THAT HAVE NOT BEEN SUFlCIENTLY PRO ACTIVE IN
TESTS AND TURNED THAT FUNDING OVER TO THE STATES WE NO SEEKING APPLICATIONS AND SCREENING FOR THE BEST AND THE
LONGER HAVE ANY WAY TO COMPARE ACHIEVEMENT OF STU BRIGHTEST PROVIDERS OF EDUCATION )T IS IN THE BIG CITIES
DENTS FROM STATE TO STATE OR COUNTRY TO COUNTRY 3OME AS WELL AS THE RURAL AREAS OF THESE STATES THAT MUCH
STATES ARE BEGINNING TO ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM BY CONSID WORK REMAINS TO BE DONE
ERING OTHER WAYS TO COLLECT THIS TYPE OF DATA
!S THIS PLAN EVOLVED OUR MEMBERS WORKED WITH 4HE 0OLITICS
THE PRESS TO MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTOOD HOW POSITIVE "ACK IN THE "USH ADMINISTRATION THROUGH
THIS PROCESS WAS GOING TO BE FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 3ECRETARY OF %DUCATION -ARGARET 3PELLINGS AGREED TO
.EARLY DAILY LOCAL NEWSPAPERS RAN ARTICLES ABOUT THIS ALLOW THE lRST MODIlCATIONS OF .#," 4HE CHANGES
REVOLUTIONARY NEW APPROACH TO SCHOOLING AND HOW IT WERE FEW AND SLOW HOWEVER AND AFTER THE CONGRESSIONAL
WOULD LEAD TO HIGHER STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND THERE ELECTION OF .#," LOST ALL TRACTION AND WAS RE
FORE A MORE LITERATE AND INFORMED ELECTORATE 4HEY PLACED BY THE BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES )T WAS DURING THIS
WROTE ARTICLES ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY RUN SCHOOLS AND TIME THAT "USHS POPULARITY SANK TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF
THE SPECIAL SCHOOLS THAT LARGE CORPORATIONS WITH EDUCA ANY SECOND TERM PRESIDENT IN HISTORY .02 !LL 4HINGS
TIONAL FOUNDATIONS WERE FUNDING SUCH AS THE "ILL AND #ONSIDERED !PRIL 0OLLS SHOWED THAT CITIZENS
-ELINDA 'ATES HIGH SCHOOLS FOR TECHNOLOGY AND THE WERE FAR MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE ECONOMY THE PRICE
-ICHAEL AND 3USAN $ELL MIDDLE SCHOOLS FOR MATHEMAT OF OIL THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE WAR IN )RAQ THAN THE
ICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 4HEY ALSO WROTE ABOUT THE 0RESIDENT SEEMED TO BE .02 -ORNING %DITION !PRIL
WAYS EXISTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE PROVIDING PROFESSION
AL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS ON THE LATEST EDUCATIONAL )N THE NEW #ONGRESS OF A CENTRIST COALITION
RESEARCH ON INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND THE EFFECTS OF LED BY 3ENATOR "ARACK /BAMA OF )LLINOIS STATED ITS GOAL
THOSE STRATEGIES ON STUDENT LEARNING OF CREATING A MORE BIPARTISAN GOVERNMENT 4HEY SUC
/N AT LEAST A WEEKLY BASIS STORIES APPEARED IN THE CEEDED IN LESSENING THE GREAT DIVIDE BETWEEN 2EPUB
NATIONAL PRESS ABOUT THE IMPRESSIVE CREDENTIALS OF THE LICANS AND $EMOCRATS IN THE #ONGRESS AND SOUGHT OUT
ENTITIES APPLYING FOR STATE GRANTS TO OPEN A NEW SCHOOL ISSUES THAT WOULD BRING A RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN THE
!S A RESULT OF HEIGHTENED NATIONWIDE INTEREST SURROUND SO CALLED RED STATES AND BLUE STATES 3ENATOR /BAMA
ING THE NEW PUBLIC SCHOOLS MORE LARGE COMPANIES ONE OF THE MOST ADMIRED POLITICIANS IN THE COUNTRY AS
BEGAN SEEING THIS PLAN FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS A VEHICLE A RESULT OF HIS SPEECH AT THE $EMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN
FOR INVESTING IN THEIR FUTURE WORKERS #ORPORATIONS AS THE SUMMER OF IN WHICH HE TALKED ABOUT hTHE AU
DIFFERENT AS -C$ONALDS $ISCOVERY #HANNEL -ERCK DACITY OF HOPEv AND THE hINSISTENCE ON SMALL MIRACLES v
)"- AND .IKE DONATED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WAS THE MOST VISIBLE ADVOCATE OF BIPARTISANSHIP (E
FOR THE STATES TO DEVELOP INTENSIVE READING PROGRAMS HAD ALREADY PROVED HIS SKILL IN THE )LLINOIS STATE LEGISLA
AND TRAIN LITERACY COACHES FOR THOSE STUDENTS WHO WERE TURE GARNERING SUPPORT FROM BOTH PARTIES FOR A LAW THAT
IN DANGER OF FAILING CULTURAL DIVERSITY PROGRAMS TO HELP WOULD REQUIRE THE POLICE TO VIDEOTAPE CAPITAL CRIME
ALL STUDENTS LEARN TO WORK TOGETHER IN A SOCIETY THAT WAS INTERROGATIONS
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
)N THIS 3ENATOR WHO WAS SO SKILLED AT UNITING !BUNDANT
NOT DIVIDING AND WHO PROMOTED THE IMPORTANCE OF
lSCAL RESPONSIBILITY LESS GOVERNMENT INTRUSION IN OUR h)MAGINEv
PERSONAL LIVES AND SENSIBLE CONSTRAINTS ON THE GROWTH
OF GOVERNMENT WAS ELECTED THE lRST !FRICAN !MERICAN
,IMITED
3CHOOL #HOICES
-ANY
0RESIDENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES
2ESOURCES
)N WITH THE NEW #ONGRESS IN A MOOD TO AC
COMPLISH GREAT THINGS AND THE NEW PRESIDENT READY TO
LEAD THE COUNTRY IN A NEW DIRECTION OUR GOVERNMENT
lNALLY FACED OUR MOUNTING ECONOMIC PROBLEMS 4HE
3CARCE
WAR IN )RAQ WHICH HAD DRAGGED ON SINCE CONTIN
UED TO BE A HUGE DRAIN ON OUR ECONOMY ALONG WITH THE
PRICE OF OIL &INALLY IN AFTER INTENSIVE BEHIND
THE
SCENES NEGOTIATIONS A 0ALESTINIAN STATE WAS ESTABLISHED THOSE WHO FOLLOW THAT CARING FOR OUR SENIOR CITIZENS
AND WE WERE ABLE TO GRACEFULLY EXTRICATE OURSELVES FROM WILL NOT BECOME AN UNREASONABLE lNANCIAL BURDEN FOR
)RAQ THEIR GENERATIONS
!LSO IN TWO MAJOR TECHNOLOGICAL BREAK
THROUGHS MADE THE 5NITED 3TATES VIRTUALLY INDEPEN
7HERE $O 7E 'O FROM (ERE
DENT OF THE !RAB COUNTRIES AND /0%# !FTER YEARS OF !T THE TIME THE STATES WERE CREATING THEIR PLANS
RESEARCH SCIENTISTS lNALLY TAPPED THE RICH OIL
BEARING FOR THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS THE FEDERAL
SHALE IN THE &OUR #ORNERS AREA OF THE 5NITED 3TATES GOVERNMENT WAS CONTRIBUTING SEVEN PERCENT TO THE
#OLORADO !RIZONA 5TAH AND .EW -EXICO WITHOUT TOTAL NATIONAL EDUCATION BUDGET &OUR YEARS AGO WHEN
REQUIRING COLDWATER EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES 3ECOND THE THE WAR IN )RAQ ENDED AND THE PRICE OF OIL DROPPED THE
DEVELOPMENT OF HYBRID GAS
ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS GOVERNMENT TOOK STOCK OF ITS lNANCIAL SITUATION ITS
AND HYDROGEN CELL FUEL TECHNOLOGIES IN AUTOMOBILES COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
WHICH HAD BEGUN IN EARNEST IN THE EARLY S lNALLY OF THE NEW PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND DOUBLED ITS APPROPRIA
WERE PERFECTED "ECAUSE THESE TECHNOLOGIES WERE SO TION TO EDUCATION /NCE WE SEE THE EFFECTS OF THE NEW
MUCH MORE READILY AVAILABLE AND EASY TO USE THEIR 3OCIAL 3ECURITY REGULATIONS THERE MIGHT BE EVEN MORE
POPULARITY INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY THEREBY DRASTICALLY FUNDING FOR THE SCHOOLS
REDUCING THE 5NITED 3TATES NEED FOR OIL AND GAS )N SPITE OF THIS INCREASED FUNDING AND THE NEW
!LTHOUGH THE ECONOMY IMPROVED AS THE PRESIDENT SMARTER ATTITUDE ABOUT WHAT MAKES A SCHOOL A GOOD
WORKED TO BRING DOWN OUR DEBT THERE WAS STILL THE HUGE ONE THERE ARE STILL TOO MANY SCHOOLS IN THIS COUNTRY
BURDEN OF 3OCIAL 3ECURITY AND -EDICARE FOR THE BABY MAINLY IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS WHERE STUDENTS ARE NOT
BOOMERS %ARLIER THIS YEAR 0RESIDENT /BAMA MANAGED RECEIVING AN ADEQUATE EDUCATION 4HESE ARE THE SCHOOLS
TO WORK OUT A DIFlCULT AND COURAGEOUS COMPROMISE IN NOBODY COMPETED TO TAKE OVER AND CHANGE BECAUSE
WHICH SENIOR CITIZENS WITH INCOMES OF OVER THE PREVAILING PERCEPTION WAS THAT THE CHILDREN WERE
PER YEAR FROM STOCKS SAVINGS REAL ESTATE PENSIONS AND TOO POOR THE FAMILIES DIDNT CARE ANDOR IT WOULD BE
OTHER ASSETS RECEIVE LOWER BENElTS AND CAN EVEN OPT IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTRACT TOP TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
TO RECEIVE NO BENElTS (E ALSO IS ADVOCATING A SLIGHT DESPITE ADEQUATE FUNDING BECAUSE THE SCHOOLS WERE SO
INCREASE OF PERCENT IN PAYROLL TAXES DESIGNATED FOR DEEPLY RURAL 4HESE ARE THE SCHOOLS TO WHICH WE NOW
3OCIAL 3ECURITY BEGINNING NEXT YEAR TO BE INCREASED NEED TO TURN OUR ATTENTION
EVERY lVE YEARS AT THE RATE OF PERCENT 4HIS SLOWS THE )N !UGUST OF THIS YEAR ) WILL STEP DOWN AS YOUR
DRAIN ON THE RESOURCES OF 3OCIAL 3ECURITY FOR THE TIME 0RESIDENT TO RUN ONE OF THESE SCHOOLS ) WILL STAY
BEING AND ALLOWS THE POOL OF MONEY TO BEGIN INCREAS
HERE IN 7ASHINGTON $# AND SERVE AS (EADMASTER
ING 4HE GOVERNMENT HAS SUCCEEDED IN ASSURING THE OF !NACOSTIA (IGH 3CHOOL IN THE SOUTHEAST SECTION OF
YOUNG -ILLENNIALS WHO ARE NOW IN THE WORK FORCE AND THE CITY -Y lRST STEP WILL BE TO CREATE A PROGRAM THAT
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
WILL BRING PARENTS INTO THE SCHOOL ON A REGULAR BASIS TO DEMAND IMPROVED SCHOOLS FOR THEIR CHILDREN THAT
AND THEN TEACH THEM HOW TO BE ADVOCATES FOR THEIR THEY WILL BE HEARD /UR JOB IS TO GIVE THEM THE TOOLS
CHILDRENS EDUCATION ) HAVE THE *AMES #OMER SCHOOLS THEY NEED TO BEGIN ORGANIZING
IN .EW (AVEN AS A MODEL AND WILL ) AM SURE HAVE A )TS A TOUGH JOB BUT THE MEMBERS OF THIS ORGANIZA
STEEP LEARNING CURVE -Y HOPE IS THAT ) WILL BE ABLE TO TION HAVE NEVER SHRUNK FROM EVEN SEEMINGLY IMPOSSI
CREATE A NEW AND SUCCESSFUL PARENT INVOLVEMENT AND BLE TASKS 7E HAVE BEEN AN INTEGRAL PARTNER IN THE VAST
TRAINING PROGRAM AND THEN SHARE THAT PROGRAM WITH IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THIS COUNTRY
OTHER SCHOOLS IN SIMILAR SITUATIONS 0ARENT INVOLVEMENT AND ) PREDICT THAT WE WILL EXTEND THAT WORK UNTIL ALL
AS WE WELL KNOW IS PERHAPS THE KEY FACTOR IN TURNING SCHOOLS OFFER ALL OUR CHILDREN THE BEST PROGRAMS WITH
AROUND CHILDREN AND THEIR SCHOOLS AND IN TRULY LEAVING THE BEST CHOICES )T HAS BEEN MY HONOR TO WORK WITH
NO CHILD BEHIND YOU OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS AND ) WISH YOU AS MUCH
!S ) SEE IT THE WORK OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION GOING SUCCESS IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS AS WE HAVE ENJOYED IN THE
FORWARD SHOULD MOVE IN TWO DIFFERENT BUT COMPLEMEN
PAST TEN
TARY DIRECTIONS
7ARM REGARDS
s &IRST WE NEED TO REFOCUS OUR ACTIVITIES AT THE -ARY 2OLLINS
STATE LEVEL 7E NEED TO BEGIN TO PLAY MORE OF A 7ASHINGTON $#
hCONCERNED STAKEHOLDERv ROLE CONVINCING STATE .ATIONAL 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION 0RESIDENT n
GOVERNMENTS THAT AS LONG AS THERE ARE SCHOOLS
IN THE INNER CITIES AND RURAL AREAS THAT HAVE NOT
BEEN IMPROVED THAT THEIR NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL !NALYSIS OF 3CENARIO
PROGRAM IS NOT SUCCESSFUL 7E MUST PERSUADE THE )MPLICATIONS
STATE GOVERNMENTS TO SET ASIDE A POOL OF MONEY
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IN
TO REWARD THOSE ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE WILLING
THIS ABUNDANT FUTURE WITH MANY SCHOOLING OPTIONS FOR
TO TACKLE THE SCHOOLS WITH THE MOST INTRACTABLE
PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN 4HE ORGANIZATIONS MEM
PROBLEMS )T WILL BE UP TO THE STATES TO lND THE
BERSHIP IS STRONG THEIR INmUENCE IS WIDE AND THEY
RIGHT ORGANIZATIONS BUT IF THEY OFFER THE RIGHT
ARE THRIVING (OWEVER WHETHER BY DESIGN OR NOT THE
lNANCIAL INCENTIVES AND CREATE THE RIGHT RELATION
ORGANIZATION HAS COME TO REPRESENT THE hHAVESv IN THIS
SHIPS WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY THERE WILL BE
SCENARIO -EMBERS TEND TO BE MIDDLE AND UPPER
MIDDLE
MANY APPLICANTS FOR THE JOB /UR JOB IS TO LOBBY
CLASS AND THEIR CHILDREN ARE IN THE SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS
THE STATES TO SEND THE MESSAGE AND TO PUT THEIR
3O THIS SCENARIO HAS WORKED FOR SOME PARENTS BUT NOT
MONEY WHERE THEIR MESSAGE IS THAT IN THIS FREE
ALL (AS THE ORGANIZATION CONTRIBUTED TO THAT SITUATION
MARKET ECONOMY NO SCHOOLS WILL BE LEFT BEHIND
AND SHOULD THEY WORK TO CORRECT IT 7HAT ARE THE RISKS
s 3ECONDLY AT THE GRASS ROOTS LEVEL WE NEED TO REACH OF ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF THE HAVE
NOTS
OUT TO THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN IN FAILING SCHOOLS "ECAUSE OF THE INmUENCE THAT 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION
0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE AN HAS MANAGED TO WIELD THEIR MEMBERSHIP NOW INCLUDES
ORGANIZATION THAT REPRESENTS ONLY THE MIDDLE CLASS MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT PARENTS BUT WHO WANT TO HAVE
7E NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INCREASINGLY DIVERSE A VOICE IN AND HELP THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS &OR EXAMPLE
SOCIETY AND EMBRACE THOSE PARENTS WHO ARE TOO MANY RETIRED BABY BOOMERS JOINED WITH THE INTENTION
AFRAID OR OVERWORKED TO SPEAK OUT ON BEHALF OF THEIR OF hDOING GOODv )N ORDER TO CONTINUE TO GROW AND
CHILDREN 7E NEED TO SEEK OUT THE NEW IMMIGRANTS ATTRACT A VARIETY OF MEMBERS PERHAPS THE NAME OF THE
AND TEACH THEM HOW OUR !MERICAN $EMOCRACY ORGANIZATION SHOULD BE CHANGED TO h0UBLIC #ITIZENS FOR
WORKS AND THAT IF WE WORK TOGETHER AND SPEAK OUT %DUCATIONv
4HE &UTURE OF 3CHOOLING %DUCATING !MERICA IN
.ATIONAL -EMBERSHIP !SSOCIATION 3CENARIO
)NDICATORS !BUNDANT
4HE LEADERS AND THE MEMBERS OF 0ARENTS FOR %DUCA
TION WOULD NEED TO WATCH CERTAIN TRENDS NOW TO SEE h)MAGINEv
IF THIS PARTICULAR FUTURE SCENARIO OR ELEMENTS OF THIS
,IMITED
SCENARIO ARE WHERE THE FUTURE IS HEADING 3CHOOL #HOICES
-ANY
2ESOURCES
s /NE MAJOR INDICATOR IS THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF
.#," )F THE &EDERAL GOVERNMENT LOSES THESE
LAWSUITS TO THE STATES AND THE .%! 0ARENTS FOR
%DUCATION COULD BEGIN AGITATING FOR THIS NEW hFREE
3CARCE
MARKETv FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
s !NOTHER INDICATOR TO WATCH IS THE PERCENTAGE OF
SCHOOLS NOT MAKING !90 AND WHETHER OR NOT THE
/PTIONS
CHARTER GROUPS THAT TAKE OVER THEM ARE SUCCESSFUL
#URRENTLY THERE IS MUCH CONTROVERSY OVER THE s )F 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION CONTINUES DOING WHAT IT
SUCCESS OF THE CHARTER SCHOOLS AND UNLESS THEY CAN IS DOING NOW UNDER THIS SCENARIO IT WILL PROBABLY
IMPROVE THEIR SUCCESS RATES WITH STUDENTS TEST GROW AND PROSPER 4HE ORGANIZATION HAS PLENTY
SCORES THE FUNDING ENTITIES ARE NOT GOING TO BE OF MEMBERS AND ENOUGH MONEY !LTHOUGH THE
WILLING TO MOVE TO A SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES GREATER MEMBERSHIP IS MAINLY MIDDLE
AND UPPER
MIDDLE
CHOICE CLASS PEOPLE IT IS WORKING FOR THEM SO THEY NEED
TO THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT CHANGING TACTICS
s &INALLY 0ARENTS FOR %DUCATION NEEDS TO WATCH THE
POLITICAL SITUATION )F IN NEW MEMBERS OF s 4HERE IS SOME DANGER OF A BACKLASH TO THE TWO
#ONGRESS ARE ELECTED WHO WANT TO CONTINUE ON TIERED SYSTEM OF EDUCATION DESCRIBED IN THIS
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DECIDING FACTOR IN WHETHER CONTROL OF THE SCHOOLS CONSIDER HOW IT WILL BRING THE NEW !MERICANS
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WARS AND MILITARY OPTIONS AROUND THE WORLD IT IS GOING TO SERVE
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STAND HOW THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR CHILDS
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AN EFFORT TO MAKE SENSE OF THE TREMENDOUS CHANGES IN THE PAST YEARS HAVE DElNED THIS NEW AND EXCITING
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