Federal
Programs
“We have always been able
to do it..”
• NCLB law of 2001
• TEA audit by USDE
• Geared towards accountability
Direct Connect
Needs
Assessment
CIP
CLT
Intent of the Law
• To provide supplemental resources to
enable all children, especially those students
who experience difficulties mastering the
state academic achievement standards, to
meet the state student performance
standards.
Campus Leadership Team
Implications
• A consideration that CLTs must take is what
will be priority funded activities. Can not
continue to fund all the
programs/personnel/activities at the current
level.
• Let’s see why…..
Two Year Comparison Allocations
• 2006-2007
2007-2008
211-
29,648,992
27,980,289 (-1,668,703)
164-
25,671,885
24,421,745 (-1,250,140)
Remember: Salaries and fringe benefits increase yearly and
enrollment continues to decline.
Campus Allocation Per Student
2006-2007
211- $279.P/S
2007-2008
[170 High Schools]
$20. (PI & July/August)
279.P/S
[170 High Schools]
$20.P/S
(PI & July/August)
Is an Expense Allowable Under Title I,
Part A? Basic Questions
Was it identified in the campus’
comprehensive needs assessment?
Is the activity identified in the CIP
(prior to amending the CIP to add it
in)?
Is the activity to upgrade the entire
educational program of the
schoolwide campus?
Is the expense reasonable and
necessary?
What Determines Reasonable &
Necessary?
The cost is reasonable if:
• It does not exceed that which would be incurred by a
prudent individual or organization under the circumstances
prevailing at the time the decision was made to incur the
cost.
• Comparable to current market value.
The cost is necessary if:
• It is essential for fulfilling the intent of the grant program.
Unallowable Expenditures
Award ceremonies/expenditures.
Refreshments of any kind for staff
meetings/trainings.(211/164)
Commencement & Convocation costs.
Employee Service Awards/Volunteer luncheons.
Entertainment.
Fines, penalties or lost textbooks.
Full meals for parents/students/staff.
Gifts or items that appear to be gifts.
Hospitality rooms.
Souvenirs, memorabilia, promotional items (with logos).
Memberships (personal) in any organization.
Multi-colored printing costs. (Maximum of 2 colors)
Send copies of printing jobs along with AB-17s.
Travel expenses (except registration) that will occur
after June 30, but before July 30.
Awards are allowable when reasonable
in cost and when necessary to
accomplish program objectives. iPods,
Xboxes, bicycles, and flowers are
examples of unallowable expenses.
Food, Food, Food
• Light snacks are an
eligible expenditure
for parent meetings.
• Nutritional light
snacks are an eligible
expenditure for
students. **
• Meals or refreshments
are not allowable for
staff meetings.
Stock Piling Supplies for the
Upcoming School Year
• Not an allowable
expense.
• We can not justify
expenditures after the
students are gone.
• Work with the
deadlines.
Tutorials
• Teachers may be
paid to provide
supplemental
tutoring to students
who are in danger of
failing if the
strategy is outlined
in the campus
improvement plan.
• Include SW
component.
Extra Duty Pay
For improving the overall level of
achievement of all students.
Is it in the CIP?
•How does it relate?
•How are you
measuring success?
•What is the SW
component?
CAUTION
• Use of “extra duty pay” should be used during the school
year with activities that are addressed in the CIP to help
improve the overall achievement of students.
• Use of funds in the summer is restricted to additional
tutoring.
• Administrative or clerical extra duty pay should be very
limited. How does this tie into the campus improvement
plan? How will this increase the academic achievement of
students?
Budget Deadlines
• March 06, 2008Budget amendments
deadline.
• April 11, 2008Campus deadline to
input on-line
purchase requests.
• Deadlines will not be
extended.
Supplemental Services
Federal funds may not be used to
provide services required by State
law, State board of Education
rule, or local policy.
Supplement v. Supplant
• Supplement-to add
to, to enhance, to
expand, to increase,
to extend basic
education program.
• Supplant-to take
place of, to replace.
Field Trips
All field trip requests must include a
lesson plan that addresses the
educational benefit the field trip will
have on the students’ academic
achievement as identified in the CIP.
Field Trips
Social, entertainment
or recreational field
trips are not allowed.
Trips to Sea World or
Fiesta Texas must be
on the designated
“educational days.”
Required Paperwork for Field Trip
Approvals
• Lesson Plan
• Identify the
strategy/activity as it
appears in the CIP.
• SW component.
• This is in addition to what
might be required by the
District.
State Compensatory
Funds
In the 2007-2008 school year,
164 funds will follow the same
guidelines as 211 (Title I)
funds.
Expenditures must be for
supplemental services.
.Indicate strategy/activity from
CIP on requisitions.
Schoolwide components do not
apply to SCE funds.
SWP Purpose
•To improve academic
achievement throughout a
school so that all students,
particularly the lowestachieving students,
demonstrate proficiency
related to the State’s
academic standards.
Supplemental Education Services
(Campuses in School Improvement)
Supplemental services means tutoring
and other supplemental academic
enrichment services that are;
1.
In addition to instruction provided during
the school day.
2. Specifically designed to increase the
academic achievement of eligible students
as measured by the State’s assessment
system.
3.
4.
Enable children to attain proficiency in
meeting State academic achievement
standards.
Of high quality and research-based.
School Improvement
Grants (SIP)
The law mandates that the
SIP funds must be used only
for the provision of
transportation (not field trips)
and/or supplemental services.
Equipment is not an eligible
expenditure.
Schoolwide Plan
Title I, Part A funds on a schoolwide campus may be used
only to support activities identified by the comprehensive
needs assessment and described in the campus improvement
plan.
Campus plans must include a comprehensive plan for
reforming the total instructional program.
Development of a Schoolwide Program
Plan
A school operating a
schoolwide program
must develop a
comprehensive plan
to improve teaching
and learning
throughout the
school.
Section 220.27
Campus Improvement Plan
Equipment must be
mentioned in the CIP for the
improvement of the academic
achievement of all students.
All equipment purchases
with federal funds must have
prior approval from TEA.
Ten Components of a Title I, Part A
Schoolwide Campus Plan
• 1. Comprehensive Needs
Assessment.
• 2. Schoolwide reform
strategies.
• 3. Instruction by highly
qualified teachers.
• 4. Professional development.
• 5. Strategies to attract and
maintain highly qualified
teachers to high need
schools.
Ten Components Continued
•6. Parental Involvement
•7. Transition from early childhood programs or
elementary school to middle school or middle
school to high school.
•8. Teacher involvement in academic assessment
decisions.
•9. Effective, timely assistance for students
who experience difficulty reaching mastery
standards.
•10. Coordination of programs.
SW01
Comprehensive Needs
Assessment
Includes State Academic Content Standards:
TEKS, TAKS, AEIS, PBMAS, SIP,
Parent/Teacher Surveys, Demographic
Information, Staff Development Needs
SW02
Schoolwide Reform Strategies
• Strategies that ensure all children meet the
State’s proficient and advanced levels of
performance, meet the needs of lowachieving students, accelerate the
curriculum, and increase the quality of
learning time.
SW02
Schoolwide Reform Strategies
What are some examples?
Tutorials, computer-aided instruction, extended
learning opportunities, parent involvement
strategies, professional learning, research-based
math, reading, language arts programs and
strategies.
SW03
Highly Qualified Staff
• Strategies that assist teachers and
paraprofessionals to meet certification
requirements and/or highly qualified requirements.
• Strategies and activities to ensure LEA is making
progress toward meeting measurable achievement
objectives that show % of HQT, % of classes
taught by HQT, % of classes in high-poverty
schools taught by HQT, and % of teachers
receiving HQT professional development.
SW04
Professional Development
• High quality, on-going, sustained
professional development for teachers,
paraprofessionals, and principals.
• Strategies to educate school staff on the
value of parent contributions and ways to
reach out to parents.
SW05
Recruitment and Retention
• Strategies to attract and retain HQT to high
need schools.
• Ensure low-income students and minority
students are not taught at higher rates than
other student groups by teaches who are not
HQT.
• Assist teachers not currently highly
qualified to meet HQ requirements.
SW06
Parental Involvement
• What measures will you use to develop jointly
with parents a written parent involvement policy?
• Host an annual meeting with parents to explain the
school’s Title I participation.
• Involve parents in an organized, ongoing and
timely way to plan, review and improve the
school’s Title I program and the parent
involvement policy.
SW06
Parental Involvement
• Provide parents with a description of the curriculum in use,
the forms of academic assessments and the proficiency
levels students are expected to achieve, develop the schoolparent compact.
• Include strategies to provide assistance to parents in
understanding the TEKS, TAKS and other assessments,
ways to work with educators to improve children’s
achievement, and the Title I requirements.
• Ensure that the information is in a format and in a language
parents can understand.
• Covered in EHBD (Legal) Board Policy.
SW07
Transition
• Best practice is that
transition plans
include all levels.( i.e.,
elementary to middle
school, middle school
to high school; ELL to
mainstream, and
Special Education to
mainstream.)
SW08
Teachers Involved in Developing
Assessment Process
• Measures that will be used to involve
teachers in the decision regarding use,
selection, and development of assessments.
• Measures that will involve teachers in
assessment decisions to improve the
academic achievement of individual
students and the overall instructional
programs.
SW09
Timely Assistance
• Strategies to provide
timely and effective
additional assistance
to students who
experience difficulty
mastering the State’s
standards.
SW10
Coordination of Programs
• Description of how the
school will use Title I
program funds and
other resources to
implement the ten
components of a Title
I program. (grants,
state compensatory,
BBL, AVID, GEAR
UP, CATE, etc.)
Principal Information
Notebooks
Review Contents
Professional Development
Follow up professional learning
opportunities will be made
available for secretaries,
bookkeepers, principals and
program administrators on a
variety of topics.
Check out our website and
newsletters for information.
Professional
Development
What is required prior to
approval of travel or other
expenses for professional
development?
1. Identify where in the CIP
this activity will connect to
students’ achievement.
2.A detailed description of
what type of follow up
activities will be
conducted upon return.
3.Name of the scientifically
research-based program
that the training is
modeled after.
Professional development activities
must be of high quality, sustained,
intensive, and classroom focused in
order to have a positive and lasting
impact on classroom instruction and
teacher performance.
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