Overview of the Five-Year Online
Strategic Plan
 Accessing and developing the plan
 Budget
 Allowable costs
 Assurances
 Compliances
 Practice
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Revised to be more strategic, less
operational
 User-friendly information entry
 Goals/Objectives/Actions and
Professional Development table
accessed from one screen
 Budget information removed from main
plan
 Compliances similar to last year
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Serves two purposes
› Five Year Strategic Plan for District’s major
improvement goals
› Annual funding application for federal
programs
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Special Education Component
› LEA Annual Application for IDEA, Part B funds
and State Aid for Exceptional Children
› Due July 1, 2008
Plan Committee – Special education
director is a member
 Data Analysis
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› Content narrative must include student
performance and achievement information
relevant to students with exceptionalities
› Must include improvement needs gleaned
from District Self-Assessment ;
› other monitoring findings, if applicable
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Goals/Objective/Activities
› Enter a special education goal or attach
Action Step to an existing goal
› Measurable objectives may be added to
special education goal at district option
› Action Steps may apply to special
education or a combination of programs to
reflect collaborative planning but will apply
to only one goal
Professional Development Plan activities
are goal-specific
 A table is provided to enter all PD
activities for the goal
 This allows a county print-out of all PD
activities for the year by goal
 At district option, special education PD
activities may be entered under the
Special Education Acton Steps.
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Two Options:
› WRITE NEW ACTION STEPS FOR GOAL
› OR
› USE THE PRE-WRITTEN SPECIAL EDUCATION
ACTIONS and add Subtasks
Budget information is not included in Action
Steps
01- Personnel
 02 – Services
 03 – Materials, supplies, equipment
 04 – Professional development
 05 – Early intervening services
 06 – Services for students with disabilities
parentally placed in private schools
 07 – Facilities
 08 - Other
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Budget table is provided as a content
box
 Entry in this table is similar to Microsoft
Word
 Table can be cut and pasted into Excel
to facilitate totaling the rows and
columns, then pasted back (or request
Excel table from OSP)
 Details of budget amounts and use of
funds are entered in this table
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Missing connection between Plan
budget and WVEIS budget
 Need to verify the actual budget reflects
the approved plan
 Considered pulling budget from WVEIS
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› WVEIS information may not be available by
July 1
› Counties’ use of budget codes may not be
uniform
› Will consider options next year
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Costs of special education and related
services for students with disabilities for IDEA
funds
State aid for gifted and students with
disabilities
IDEA funds provide for excess costs of
educating students with disabilities
IDEA funds supplement, not supplant state,
local funds and other federal funds
IDEA is for costs over and above what every
student should get through the Public
School Support Program
May use IDEA funds for special education,
related services and supplementary aids
and services for students with disabilities in
the general education classroom or other
settings; incidental benefit to other students
who are not students with disabilities is
allowed
 May use up to 15% of IDEA school age
funds for early intervening services for
students not identified with disabilities
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High cost consortia
 To purchase technology for data/IEP case
management
 For schoolwide Title I/IDEA program; limited
to per pupil allocation x number of students
with disabilities in the program
 Must spend calculated proportionate
amount of IDEA funds on students
parentally placed in private schools within
the district
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Must have adopted Policy 2419 as the
district’s procedures for implementing
IDEA and state code
 Must have submitted District SelfAssessment
 Must submit EIS report if applicable
 Must select the caseload rules to be
implemented in 2008-2009
 Must provide other assurances included
with grant award
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Allocations
 Private Schools – Calculation of
proportionate amount for students
parentally placed in private schools
 Excess Costs
 MOE – Maintenance of effort
 Early Intervening Services Report
 Equipment (over $5000)
 Construction
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2005-2006
Number of students without
disabilities who received
coordinated EIS
Number of students without
disabilities reported above who
were Initially referred and found
eligible as students with
disabilities (within two years).
2006-2007
2007-2008
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Sandra McQuain, Assistant Director,
Office of Special Programs, Extended and Early
Learning
[email protected]
(304) 558-2696
0ut of the office: June 2-6 and 16-18.
Janice Hay, Coordinator
Office of Internal Operations
[email protected]
(304) 957-9833 ext.53423