Presidential DocumentExecutive Order 1315300-11531
Actions To Improve Low-Performing Schools
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May 5, 2000
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May 3, 2000
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[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 88 (Friday, May 5, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 26475-26477]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 00-11531]
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Part V
The President
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Executive Order 13153--Actions To Improve Low-Performing Schools
Executive Order 13154--Establishing the Kosovo Campaign Medal
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 88 / Friday, May 5, 2000 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13153 of May 3, 2000
Actions To Improve Low-Performing Schools
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), the Department of
Education Appropriations Act, 2000 (as contained in
Public Law 106-113), and in order to take actions to
improve low-performing schools, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. Policy. Since 1993, this Administration has
sought to raise standards for students and to increase
accountability in public education while investing more
resources in elementary and secondary schools. While
much has been accomplished--there has been progress in
math and reading achievement, particularly for low-
achieving students and students in our highest poverty
schools--much more can be done, especially for low-
performing schools.
Sec. 2. Technical Assistance and Capacity Building. (a)
The Secretary of Education (``Secretary'') shall work
with State and local educational agencies (``LEAs'') to
develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for
providing technical assistance and other assistance to
States and LEAs to strengthen their capacity to improve
the performance of schools identified as low
performing. This comprehensive strategy shall include a
number of steps, such as:
(1) providing States, school districts, and schools receiving funds from
the school improvement fund established by Public Law 106-113, as well as
other districts and schools identified for school improvement or corrective
action under Title I of the ESEA, with access to the latest research and
information on best practices, including research on instruction and
educator professional development, and with the opportunity to learn from
exemplary schools and exemplary State and local intervention strategies and
from each other, in order to improve achievement for all students in the
low-performing schools;
(2) determining effective ways of providing low-performing schools with
access to resources from other Department of Education programs, such as
funds from the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program, the
Reading Excellence Act, the Eisenhower Professional Development Program,
the Class Size Reduction Program, and the 21st Century Community Learning
Centers Program, and to make effective use of these funds and Title I
funds;
(3) providing States and LEAs with information on effective strategies to
improve the quality of the teaching force, including strategies for
recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers in high-poverty schools,
and implementing research-based professional development programs aligned
with challenging standards;
(4) helping States and school districts build partnerships with technical
assistance providers, including, but not limited to, federally funded
laboratories and centers, foundations, businesses, community-based
organizations, institutions of higher education, reform model providers,
and other organizations that can help local schools improve;
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(5) identifying previously low-performing schools that have made
significant achievement gains, and States and school districts that have
been effective in improving the achievement of all students in low-
performing schools, which can serve as models and resources;
(6) providing assistance and information on how to effectively involve
parents in the school-improvement process, including effectively involving
and informing parents at the beginning of the school year about improvement
goals for their school as well as the goals for their own children, and
reporting on progress made in achieving these goals;
(7) providing States and LEAs with information on effective approaches to
school accountability, including the effectiveness of such strategies as
school reconstitution, peer review teams, and financial rewards and
incentives;
(8) providing LEAs with information and assistance on the design and
implementation of approaches to choice among public schools that create
incentives for improvement throughout the local educational agency,
especially in the lowest-performing schools, and that maximize the
opportunity of students in low-performing schools to attend a higher-
performing public school;
(9) exploring the use of well-trained tutors to raise student achievement
through initiatives such as ``America Reads,'' ``America Counts,'' and
other work-study opportunities to help low-performing schools;
(10) using a full range of strategies for disseminating information about
effective practices, including interactive electronic communications;
(11) working with the Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA), to provide technical assistance to BIA-funded low-performing
schools; and
(12) taking other steps that can help improve the quality of teaching and
instruction in low-performing schools.
(b) The Secretary shall, to the extent permitted by
law, take whatever steps the Secretary finds necessary
and appropriate to redirect the resources and technical
assistance capability of the Department of Education
(``Department'') to assist States and localities in
improving low-performing schools, and to ensure that
the dissemination of research to help turn around low-
performing schools is a priority of the Department.
Sec. 3. School Improvement Report. To monitor the
progress of LEAs and schools in turning around failing
schools, including those receiving grants from the
School Improvement Fund, the Secretary shall prepare an
annual School Improvement Report, to be published in
September of each year, beginning in 2000. The report
shall:
(a) describe trends in the numbers of LEAs and
schools identified as needing improvement and
subsequent changes in the academic performance of their
students;
(b) identify best practices and significant
research findings that can be used to help turn around
low-performing LEAs and schools; and
(c) document ongoing efforts as a result of this
order and other Federal efforts to assist States and
local school districts in intervening in low-performing
schools, including improving teacher quality. This
report shall be publicly accessible.
Sec. 4. Compliance Monitoring System. Consistent with
the implementation of the School Improvement Fund, the
Secretary shall strengthen the Department's monitoring
of ESEA requirements for identifying and turning around
low-performing schools, as well as any new requirements
established for the School Improvement Fund by Public
Law 106-113. The Secretary shall give priority to
provisions that have the greatest bearing on
identifying and turning around low-performing schools,
including sections 1116 and 1117 of the ESEA, and to
developing an ongoing, focused, and systematic
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process for monitoring these provisions. This improved
compliance monitoring shall be designed to:
(a) ensure that States and LEAs comply with ESEA
requirements;
(b) assist States and LEAs in implementing
effective procedures and strategies that reflect the
best research available, as well as the experience of
successful schools, school districts, and States as
they address similar objectives and challenges; and
(c) assist States, LEAs, and schools in making the
most effective use of available Federal resources.
Sec. 5. Consultation. The Secretary shall, where
appropriate, consult with executive agencies, State and
local education officials, educators, community-based
groups, and others in carrying out this Executive
order.
Sec. 6. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to
improve the internal management of the executive branch
and is not intended to, and does not create any right
or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at
law or equity by a party against the United States, its
agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or
employees, or any other person.
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May 3, 2000.
[FR Doc. 00-11531
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