North Carolina Financial and Business Services Conference

Title I, Part A July 26, 2012

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• What’s not new?

• What’s new?

• What’s next?

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Title I, Part A

Title I, Part A Federal supplemental funding began in 1965 as part of the “War on Poverty”

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What’s Not New

State Educational Agencies (SEAs)

Local Educational Agencies (LEAs)

Public schools with high numbers or percentages of poor children

What’s Not New: Supplemental Funds

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Title I funds should increase the level of funding made available to schools through non-Federal sources (i.e., State, local).

• Comparability • Supplement vs. supplant

What’s Not New: Comparability

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What is the comparability requirement? Each year, the LEA may only receive Title I funds if it uses State and local funds to provide services in Title I schools that are at least comparable to services provided in non-Title I schools:

• Develop procedures for compliance • Provide necessary data in October • Submit comparability report on web-based Title I

system • Source documents reviewed during State monitoring

visits

What’s Not New: Supplement vs. Supplant

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LEA may not use Title I funds to provide services to Title I students that it provides with non-Title I funds (state and local) for non-Title I students. Test: What would the LEA do in the absence of Title I funds?

What’s Not New: Supplement vs. Supplant

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• Presumption/prediction of supplanting • Rebuttable by demonstrating services

would not have been provided if Title I funds were not available

• LEA must have contemporaneous records to confirm. Examples:

• Payroll records • School board minutes • Invoices and receipts

What’s Not New: Carryover

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Carryover funds may: • Not exceed 15% without a waiver • Excess carryover calculated by DPI in July • Second calculation after September 30th • Notification provided to LEA • Final calculation at end of December

liquidation • LEA may request a waiver for excess

carryover

What’s Not New: Carryover

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Carryover waiver request: • Provide amount of excess carryover • Provide justification for excess carryover • Provide plan for use of funds in upcoming

year

What’s Not New: Carryover

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Carryover funds may: • Be used to increase all school allocations (included

in CCIP) • Be used to increase some school allocations (e.g.,

highest poverty in rank order, grade span only, Priority schools, Focus schools)

• Be used to implement district-wide instructional initiative for Title I schools

• Be used to increase administrative cap for subsequent year (with administrative carryover)

What’s Not New: Carryover

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Unbudgeted reserve: • General rule not more than 10% of current year

allotment

• Exceptions: • ARRA funds • Sequestration

• Allowable expenditures are identified through purpose and object codes as outlined in the applicable Uniform Chart of Accounts (COA) for each Program Report Code(PRCs): – PRC 105 – available for new Priority Schools – PRC 117/143 – continues for School

Improvement Grant 1003(g) (SIG) schools – PRC 110 – available for Reward Schools – PRC 050 – continues for Title I schools as well

as newly identified Priority and Focus Schools

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What’s New: ESEA Flexibility

• Flexibility with carryover funds: – PRC 105– may be used one additional year for

schools identified for improvement, corrective action, restructuring

– Purpose 5870 – may be used one additional year to continue district improvement efforts (professional development)

– Use of funds based on 2011-12 district and school improvement status

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What’s New: Use of Carryover Improvement Funds

How are Priority Schools identified?

• Total number at least five percent of the Title I schools in the State (77 schools)

• Among the lowest five percent in terms of proficiency • Has demonstrated a lack of progress on those assessments

over a number of years in the "all students" subgroup • Is a Title I-participating or Title I-eligible high school with a

graduation rate less than 60 percent over a number of years • A SIG school • Uses 3 years of data beginning with 2010-11 and two prior

years

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What’s New: Priority Schools

What funds are available to Priority Schools?

• PRC 117/143 for previously identified SIG Schools (40 schools)

• PRC 105 for newly identified Priority Schools (37 schools)

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What’s New: Priority Schools

What funds are available to Priority Schools?

• LEAs may also serve a Title I-eligible high school with a graduation rate below 60 percent that the SEA has identified as a Priority School.

• LEAs may do so even if that school does not rank sufficiently high to be served.

• If a high school is served under these circumstances, the school becomes a Title I school.

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What’s New: Priority Schools

How are Focus Schools identified?

• Title I schools with in-school gaps between the highest- achieving and lowest-achieving subgroups

• Title I schools with a proficiency score below 50%

• Uses 3 years of data beginning with 2010-11 and two prior years

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What’s New: Focus Schools

What funds are available for Focus Schools?

The LEA must ensure that sufficient funds are provided to Focus Schools to implement interventions that address subgroup gaps and subgroup underperformance.

• Title I school allocation

• District reservation

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What’s New: Focus Schools

How are Reward Schools identified?

• Is among the highest ten percent (10%) of all Title I schools in one of two categories: – Title I schools considered to have sustained the

highest performance on student achievement over a number of years; or

– Title I school that has made the most progress in improving student achievement over a number of years.

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What’s New: Reward Schools

Are there any additional funds available for Reward Schools?

• Yes. The top 10% percent of all Reward Schools in the state are eligible for Reward School Mini-Grants.

• For example, for 2012-13, 120 schools have been identified as Reward Schools. The top 10% of 120 equals 12 schools. The 12 schools will be eligible for Reward School Mini-Grants.

• PRC -100

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What’s New: Reward Schools

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What’s New: Reward Schools

• Top 10% of Reward Schools are invited to submit portfolios to receive additional recognition and be eligible for the mini-grants

• Schools have the opportunity to represent the

State in the National Title I Distinguished Schools program in one of two categories:

• Highest-Performing School • High-Progress Title I School

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What’s New: Reward Schools

Top 10% of all Title I Schools 120 Reward Schools (recognition plaque)

Top 10% of all Reward Schools

12 Reward Schools (mini-grants)

National Title I Distinguished Schools

2 Reward Schools ($10,000 recognition award)

Numbers based on 2012-13 Reward School list.

How will sequestration impact Title I funds?

• July 20, 2012, letter from Deputy Secretary Tony Miller to chief state school officers

• Potentially applies to ESEA, IDEA, CTE in 2012-13

• Potentially applies to Impact Aid in 2012-13

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What’s Next: Future of Funding

Donna Brown, Director

Federal Program Monitoring and Support

NC Department of Public Instruction

Donna.brown@dpi.nc.gov

919.808.3957

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Questions