ARRA

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ARRA

• American Recovery Reinvestment Act
• 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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IDEA RECOVERY FUNDS PRE-SCHOOL ENTITLEMENT

• All IDEA recovery funds must be used consistent
  with the current IDEA statutory and regulatory
  requirements.
• Only for the excess costs of providing special
  education and related services, except where IDEA
  provides otherwise.

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REQUIREMENTS

• Money is considered a one-time allocation for
  2009-10 school year
• Money needs to be obligated by September 30, 2011
• Need to set aside a percentage for parentally
  placed-private school students
• Quarterly reporting to DPI

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EXCESS COST

• It is the cost that you have as the result of
  special education students.

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IDEA STIMULUSAMOUNTS

• Pre-school Entitlement 14,852
• IDEA Recovery Funds 314,116

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PRE-SCHOOL ENTITLEMENT

• Preschool entitlement funds is available for
  special education programs and services to
  children with disabilities ages 3-5
• Funds may be used for staffing, educational
  materials, and other costs to provide special
  education and related services to children with
  disabilities.  

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POTENTIAL USE

• Exploring pre-school options for our students
• Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards Training
  for staff
• Additional equipment/trainings
• Other?

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IDEA Recovery Funds Flexibility

• Maintenance of Effort
• The 50 Rule

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WHAT IS MOE?

• IDEA required that school districts must budget
  the same amount of local funding to special
  education as it expended the previous year

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The 50 Rule

• If an LEA receives an increase in its IDEA
  flow-through allocation from one fiscal year to
  the next, the LEA may reduce its MOE obligations
  by half of the increased amount
• Freed-up funds must be used to carry out
  activities that could be supported with funds
  under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  (ESEA)

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Flow-Through Funding

• Federal grant money that the school district gets
  on a yearly basis.
• In 2008-09 the district received 285,265 in
  flow-through funding
• Estimated amount of flow-through funding for
  2009-10 is 295,926.
• Recovery funds are in addition to yearly
  allocation

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Demonstration of IDEAs 50 rule
FY 2008 Flow-through allocation 150,000
FY 2008 LEA IDEA MOE 800,000
50 of 100,000 (the increase) is 50,000. The
LEA has the option of reducing its MOE by
50,000.
FY 2009 Flow-through allocation 250,000
FY 2009 LEAs new level of MOE 750,000
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Impact of 50 rule in Lodi
FY 2008 LEA IDEA MOE 1,289,520
FY 2008 Flow-through allocation 285,265
50 of 324,777 (the increase) is 162,388. The
LEA has the option of reducing its MOE by
162,388.
FY 2009 Flow-through allocation 295,926
314,116 610,042
FY 2009 LEAs new level of MOE 1,127,132
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Impact of 50 rule in Lodi cont.

• If the district takes advantage of the 50
  rule it will create approximately 162,000 in
  Freed-up funds
• Could be used to support ESEA activities, not
  just special education
• Freed up need to be spend during the 2009-10
  school year

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What cant we do with Stimulus Funds?

• The money cannot be used to reduce the overall
  district budget.
• The money cannot be used to close any deficits in
  previous, current, or next years budget.
• This goes for all stimulus funding streams
  Pre-School Entitlement, IDEA Recovery,
  Freed-Up, or Title Funds.

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Possible Uses of IDEA Stimulus Dollars

• School Wide Positive Behavior Interventions
  Supports Training
• Staff Development around the areas of crisis
  prevention and intervention, behavior
  intervention plans/functional behavior assessment
  training, etc.
• Assistive technology

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Title I Stimulus Funds

• 55,214 (09-10 10-11)
• Must supplement not supplant
• Quarterly Reporting of All Activities
• Can only be spent on programs in targeted
  assistance schools

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Funds may be used for..

• Provide professional development for Title I
  teachers and regular education teachers that work
  directly with Title I students
• Provide additional instructional time to Title I
  students
• Serve a larger percentage of eligible students
• Provide extended day instructional services for
  identified Title I students

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Funds may be used for.

• Provide extended summer school core instructional
  time
• Begin or expand family literacy programs for
  parents of identified Title I students
• Purchase supplemental materials, supplies, and
  software to enhance instruction for Title I
  students
• Fund more Title I eligible schools

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Next Steps

• The district administrative team is working on
  developing a plan for these funds to be used in a
  way that fits the vision and mission of the
  school district in a sustainable fashion