Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

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Supplemental Educational Services(SES)

• Mississippi Department of Education
• Office of Innovation and School Improvement
• May 8, 2007

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Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

• What is SES?
• Additional academic instruction designed to
  increase academic achievement of students
• High quality, research-based, specifically
  designed to
• Increase the academic achievement of eligible
  students as measured by the MCT or SATP and
• Attain proficiency on MCT or SATP

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Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

• Types of services
• Tutoring
• Remediation
• Other educational interventions
• SES must be provided outside of the regular
  school day (before school, after school,
  weekends, or summer).

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Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

• Whos required to offer SES?
• Schools that do not make AYP for three
  consecutive years (Year 2 of School Improvement)
  must offer SES.
• Services must continue until the school has made
  AYP for 2 consecutive years (no longer identified
  for School Improvement).
• Schools that do not make AYP for two consecutive
  years (Year 1 of School Improvement) may choose
  to offer SES.

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Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

• Whos eligible?
• All students from low-income families who attend
  Title I schools
• Identification of low-income families is based
  upon the same measures used to make allocations
  to schools under Title I
• Eligibility is not dependent on whether the
  student is a member of a subgroup that caused the
  school to not make AYP

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Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

• Who are SES Providers?
• Entities who have successfully demonstrated a
  record of effectiveness in increasing student
  academic achievement and approved by the
  Mississippi Department of Education (MDE)
• Providers may be
• Profit organizations
• Non-profit organizations
• Educational Service Agenies
• LEAs (one that is not identified as in need of
  improvement)
• Public Schools (one that is not identified as in
  need of improvement)
• Private / Charter Schools
• Faith Based Organizations
• Institutions of Higher Education
• Community based organizations

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LEA Responsibilities

• Funding
• The amount of funding that a district must devote
  to SES depends in part on how much it spends on
  choice-related transportation. The district must
  set aside 20 of its Title I allocation, and
  spend it as follows, unless a lesser amount than
  20 will cover all choice and SES needs.
• 5 of the allocation for choice transportation
• 5 of the allocation for supplemental educational
  services
• The remaining 10 of the allocation for either or
  both of (i) and (ii) above, as the district
  determine

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21st CCLC Assistance

• Collaboration
• Participation
• Information

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Websites

• http//www.mde.k12.ms.us/innovative_support/school
  _improvement.htm
• www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/suppsvcsguid.doc
• USDE SES Non-Regulatory Guidance
• http//www.tutorsforkids.org
• www.nclb.gov

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Contact Information

• Cathy Travis
• Division Director
• School Improvement
• Office of Innovative Support
• 359 North West Street
• P.O. Box 771
• Jackson, MS 39205
• cctravis_at_mde.k12.ms.us
• [phone]

• Tollie Thigpen
• Supplemental Educational Services Coordinator
• Office of Innovative Support
• 359 North West Street
• P.O. Box 771
• Jackson, MS 39205
• tthigpen_at_mde.k12.ms.us
• [phone]