The U.S. Department of Education named committee members of the negotiated rulemaking committee who will draft proposed regulations for two areas of Title I, Part A of ESSA. The two areas of Title I, Part A of ESSA to be addressed by the committee are: (1) the requirement that federal funds supplement, not supplant, non-federal funds in high-need schools and (2) assessments. The committee includes two individuals from Texas, Delia Pompa, Senior Fellow for Education Policy, Migration Policy Institute and Dr. Kerri Briggs, Education Policy Officer, ExxonMobil.
More about Delia Pompa:
According to the Migration Policy Institute, “Delia Pompa is Senior Fellow for Education Policy at MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy where her work focuses on research and policy analysis related to improving educational services for immigrant students and English Language Learners (ELLs).
Ms. Pompa came to MPI from the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), where she was Senior Vice President for Programs, overseeing its education, health, housing, workforce development, and immigrant integration work, and where she previously served as Vice President of Education. She has had a key role in shaping federal education policy through her positions as Director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in the U.S. Department of Education, and as Executive Director of the National Association for Bilingual Education.
Ms. Pompa came to Washington, DC to serve as Director of Education for the Children’s Defense Fund after serving as Assistant Commissioner for Program Development at the Texas Education Agency. Her previous experience as Executive Director for Bilingual and Migrant Education in the Houston Independent School District and as a bilingual classroom teacher and instructor to prospective teachers at the graduate level has anchored her work.”
More about Dr. Kerri Briggs:
According to Exxon Mobil, “Dr. Kerri Briggs is [the Corporation’s] Education Program Officer. In this role, she manages the education grant making portfolio for the company and provides policy advice to the company on issues related to teacher quality, especially in science, mathematics, engineering and technology, the Common Core State Standards, and federal policy issues. Formerly, Kerri was Director of Education Reform at the George W. Bush Institute, where she oversaw its education reform interests. Kerri also served as state superintendent of education for Washington, D.C. She was a member of the team that won a federal Race to the Top grant for the city, and was instrumental in one of the nation's most visible education reform efforts. Kerri earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Stephen F. Austin State University. She did her postgraduate work at the University of Southern California, where she earned a Master of Public Policy and, later, a Ph.D. in education with a specialization in policy and organizational studies. Kerri is based in Irving, TX.”
To access the U.S. Department of Education press release on the ESSA Negotiated Rulemaking Committee, dated March 4, 2016, click on the link below.
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-names-committee-members-draft-proposed-regulations-every-student-succeeds-act