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Government Affairs Program Assignments

Erin Gabel, Director, Government Affairs Division

egabel@cde.ca.gov

Carol Bingham, Senior Fiscal Policy Advisor

cbingham@cde.ca.gov

• Budget

• School Finance

• Proposition 98

• Mandates

• American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

Erika Hughes, Federal Policy Liaison

ehughes@cde.ca.gov

• Federal Issues

  • No Child Left Behind (NCLB)/Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Reauthorization/Waivers
  • Farm Bill
  • Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
  • Title I, II and III

• Federal Legislation

Monique Ramos, Senior Legislative Advisor

mramos@cde.ca.gov

• Assessments

  • General Educational Development (GED) Test
  • High School Exit Exam
  • Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program
  • California English Language Development Test (CELDT)

• Accountability & School Improvement

  • High Priority Schools
  • Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program
  • Interventions
  • Low Performing Schools
  • School Accountability Report Card (SARC)
  • Pupil Promotion/Retention Rewards
  • Academic Performance Index (API)
  • Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
  • Parent Empowerment
  • Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA)

• Data

  • California School Information Services (CSIS) &
    California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS)
  • Teacher Data

• School Management

  • Assembly Bill 1200-Fiscal Management
  • Audits
  • Business Services
  • Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT)
  • Inter/Intra District
  • Local School Boards Reorganization
  • School Administrators

• School Finance

  • Adequacy
  • Apportionments
  • Attendance
  • Basic Aid & Block Grants
  • Concurrent Enrollment
  • Instructional Time
  • Longer Day, Year
  • Lottery
  • Proposition 98
  • Property Taxes/Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF)
  • Vouchers
  • Class Size Reduction
  • Online ADA

• Facilities

  • Bonds
  • Developer Fees
  • Mello-Roos
  • Multi-Track Year-Round Education (MTYRE)
  • Playgrounds
  • Lead & Toxics

• Transportation

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Alejandro Espinoza, Legislative Representative

aespinoza@cde.ca.gov

• Child Nutrition

• Career/Technical Education

  • Linked Learning
  • Partnership Academies
  • Regional Occupational Centers and Programs (ROC/Ps)
  • Specialized Secondary
  • School-to-Career
  • Workforce Investment Act (WIA)

• Adult Education

  • California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
  • Citizenship/English as a Second Language (ESL)

• College Readiness

  • Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)
  • International Baccalaureate (IB) / Advanced Placement (AP)

• Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)

• Education Technology

• Pension Reform

• English Language Learners

  • Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD)/Bilingual Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development (BCLAD)
  • Economic Impact Aid
  • Migrant Education

• School Choice

  • Open Enrollment
  • Districts of Choice

• Charters

• Private Schools

• Parental Involvement

  • Parent Trigger

• Desegregation

  • Affirmative Action
  • Anti-Discrimination
  • Student Rights

• Safe Schools

  • Gang Prevention
  • Law Enforcement
  • School Crime Report
  • School Safety Plans

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Jennifer Moreno, Legislative Representative

jmoreno@cde.ca.gov

• Standards/Common Core

  • Frameworks
  • Graduation Requirements
  • Reading & Math Standards
  • Science Standards

• Instructional Materials

• Curriculum

• Misc. Curriculum Areas

  • Community Service & Service Training
  • Drivers Training
  • Environmental Education
  • Civic Education

• Williams Settlement

• Special Education

  • Early Start
  • Mental Health
  • State Special Schools

• Educator Credentialing & Preparation

  • Credentialing & Learning
  • Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA)
  • California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST)/Assessments
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Credential Issues
  • Merit Pay
  • Preparation
  • Professional Learning
  • Recruitment
  • Staff Development
  • Tenure
  • Collective Bargaining
  • State Teachers Retirement System (STRS)/Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)

• Classified Employees

  • Paraprofessionals

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Whitney Staniford, Legislative Representative

wstaniford@cde.ca.gov

• State Board of Education/Waivers

• General Government

  • Ballot Initiatives
  • Local Elections
  • Open Meeting
  • Political Reform

• California Department of Education (CDE) Administration / Governance

• Student Health

  • School Nurses

• Preschool/Child Care

  • California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)

• Kindergarten & Transitional Kindergarten

• Extended Learning/Community Schools

  • Before/After School
  • Summer School
  • 21st Century Learning Centers
  • Supplemental Instruction
  • Proposition 49

• Student Wellness

  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Education
  • Drugs Education
  • Healthy Start
  • Proposition 99
  • Sex Education
  • Health Education

• Education Options & At-Risk Youth

  • Expulsion Policies
  • School Attendance Review Board (SARB), Truancy
  • Foster Youth
  • Community Schools
  • Continuation Schools
  • Dropout Prevention
  • Independent Study
  • Juvenile Court Schools
  • Opportunity Schools
  • Parenting Education
  • Teenage Pregnancy & Prevention Grants

• Physical Education

  • Fitnessgram

• Athletics

  • California Interscholastic Federation (CIF)
  • Title IX

• Counseling/Guidance

• School Climate

• American Indian Education

• Categorical Compliance

• Libraries

• Omnibus

Laura Beebe, Executive Fellow

lbeebe@cde.ca.gov

• Higher Education

  • Financial Aid
  • Intersegmental Programs
  • ScholarShare
  • Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)

• Tobacco on School Campuses

• Legislative Reports

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