Americans Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA

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American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA) Title I Recovery Funds Application
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Todays Objectives

• Review Guiding Principles for ARRA Funds
• Review use of ARRA Title I Recovery Funds
• Review the ARRA TI Application process
• Review the additional reporting for ARRA TI funds
  
• Review briefly the Consolidated Plan requirements
  in ALEAT

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ARRAGuiding Principles

• Spend funds quickly to save and create jobs
• Improve student achievement through school
  improvement and reform
• Ensure transparency, reporting, and
  accountability
• Invest one-time ARRA funds thoughtfully to
  minimize the funding cliff

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Title I ARRA-Recovery FundsGuiding Principles

• Support Title I programs with additional funds
  for FY10
• Invest in Title I programs that will provide a
  sustainable result
• Expand services to more students and/or more
  schools

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• These are Title I funds what does that mean?
• All Title I rules apply!

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• Back to Basics
• Purpose of Title I
• Support for students who are struggling
  academically in reading and mathematics
• Title I program

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All expenses focus on
Title I students
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Title I ARRAFunding Dates

• Application available now for full amount for
  FY10
• No additional ARRA funds
• Grant runs from approval date
• through September 30, 2010 with
• Carryover through September 30, 2011

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Title I Recovery Funds

• Supplement not supplant requirements apply
• Maintenance of Effort applies
• Comparability applies
• LEA may not use Title I, Part A funds for
  activities that it would have conducted in
  absence of these funds

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Supplement not Supplant

• The 3 tests
• 1. Did I pay for this activity with state funds
  before?
• 2. Is this activity a state requirement?
• 3. I am paying for this activity with state
  funds in non-Title I schools?
• If the answer to any of these is yes -
• supplanting is presumed to have occured

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Title I Recovery Funds

• Supplanting is always presumed and must be
  rebutted
• if the LEA can demonstrate (by contemporaneous)
  fiscal records, state legislative action, board
  action, etc., that there was a reduction in the
  amount of non-Federal funds available to pay for
  the activity previously supported by non-Federal
  funds

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Remember

• It still must be an allowable Title I activity
• Just because the state reduces funding for a
  program does not mean you may automatically use
  Title I to pay for it without strings
• Example full day kindergarten

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Title I Recovery Funds

• Maintenance of Effort Applies
• MoE measures fiscal effort across years
• compares
• Cannot vary more than 10
• May be felt in future years
• May require a waiver at that time

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Title I Recovery Funds

• Comparability of Services Applies
• More guidance is expected on the impact of SFSF
  on comparability for Title I schools
• The issue SFSF are federal funds for the
  purposes of calculating comparability

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Consider this
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What other Title I Rules Apply?

• Set asides
• Homeless (special caveat)
• Parent Involvement (500,000 total)
• Private school services
• Neglected/delinquent
• SI Public School Choice and SES
• LEA Improvement
• Optional admin, LEA programs, other PD
• Remainder goes to Schools by rank order of
  poverty
• Serving more schools with ARRA
• Serving more students in TA schools

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Extend or Expand?

• More funds to your currently funded TI schools
• Increase the PPA
• Maintain rank order
• Use estimated population and poverty data
• Dont forget to fund private school services
• How will schools use the extra money?
• TA schools can serve more students more staff
• SW schools can expand/modify SW program

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Expand or Extend?

• SW -1 and -2 schools cannot change non-federal
  funded positions to TI-funded positions
• SW schools must demonstrate how plan will be
  modified
• All SW plans must be entered into IDEAL this
  upcoming year using the revised format

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Expand or Extend?

• Examples of new programs/projects for 2 year ARRA
  duration in SW programs
• Planning and implementing new SW program
• Arts integration
• PDLA model
• Technology integration in concert with TII-D
• Curriculum focused coaches
• Data integration/job-embedded PD

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Expand or Extend?

• New programs/projects for 2 year ARRA
• Add more students or new schools (TA)
• Develop and implement RTI
• Additional professional development for TI staff
• Parent programs for TI parents
• Planning and implementing new SW program
• Build on your current program
• Many allowable activities in context

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Title I Recovery Funds

• Can I fund this Best Ever Research-Based Perfect
  Program (BERPP) with my Recovery funds?
• It depends - a case by case response to allow
  for Title I funds to pay for BERPP
• 2 major factors Previous history
• Targeted versus Schoolwide School.

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• The more written information and documentation
  the LEA provides to assigned specialist, the
  easier it will be to determine allowable
  expenditure or not.
• Be sure descriptions are as detailed as your
  regular TI grants e.g., list FTEs and schools
• Documentation must be contemporaneous not after
  the fact.

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Title I Recovery Funds

• 85 of Recovery funds must be expended and/or
  obligated
• By September 30, 2010
• Subject to 15 carryover rules
• Obligate follows the Education Department
  General Administrative Regulations
• 34 CFR 76.707

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Title I Recovery Funds

• Consideration will be given to waive the
  following set asides using Recovery funds
• Professional Development for School (10 per
  site) and LEA Improvement (10 of TI)
• SES Services and PPA for SES
• More Guidance concerning waivers is forthcoming
  from ED
• NOTE Applications will be conditionally approved
  but amendments will be required if waiver is
  denied.

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Title I Recovery Funds

• Two parts for receiving Title I Recovery Funds
  downloads
• Recovery Funds Application (separate from NCLB
  Application)
• NCLB Consolidated Application Tables (Excel
  spreadsheets) normally combined with NCLB
  Application

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Application

• Budget the entire amount of your allocation
• Provide school-level details
• Use 2 FTEs in the budget to cover a 2 year salary
  explain in description
• Supplemental section revised
• New assurances
• New homeless information
• Waiver requests

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Excel Spreadsheets

• Contains separate columns for ARRA funds
• If funds will go to schools, you may use best
  available data to allocate but must follow the
  rank order rules
• See separate directions if adding new schools
• Updated spreadsheets will be submitted with
  regular TI grant - adjustments

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Title I Recovery Funds

• Reporting Requirements Not yet known
• OMB has posted general requirements in Federal
  Register comments due
• Quarterly (?) Reports are required for all of the
  ARRA funds, not just ED dollars.
• The first is October 10, 2009.
• ED is currently developing a common reporting
  form that will streamline process for reporting.

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NCLB LEA Consolidated Plans

• Update 2
• Using ALEAT

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• All LEA Plan Updates must be entered online using
  ALEAT

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Organization of the Plan

• 6 Goal Topics mandatory
• the goals from your original NCLB LEA
  Consolidated Plan
• added Parent Involvement
• Goal statements at least one per Goal Topic
• reflect the Goal Topics in SMART goal format
• Strategies at least one per SMART Goal
• Methods to meet the SMART goals
• Action steps at least one per strategy
• Implementation of the strategies
• Includes professional development, as appropriate

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Goal Strategy Action Steps

• All plans will include SMART Goals, Strategies,
  and Action Steps
• A comprehensive list of Strategies is available
  in the SEA Resources
• Arranged by goal topic but may be applied as
  appropriate
• Other strategies may be proposed
• Action steps may be generalized or detailed
• PD is an ACTION STEP!

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Strategies

• Strategy--A systematic plan to
• accomplish a goal
• the tools or method
• needed to achieve the goal
• Example An SBR intervention model for all low
  achieving 3rd - 6th graders.

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Action Steps -The Core of the Plan

• Action Step how the strategy will be
  implemented - when, who, how, and with what
  resources.
• Example 1. Research and select
  the SBR intervention
• 2. Provide PD for 3rd 6th grade
  teachers
• 3. Assemble needed resources
• 4. Evaluation data collection plan

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Questions?

• Title I ARRA page on ADEs web site
• www.ade.az.gov/asd/TitleI/arra
• Materials to be posted