Use of Title II, Part A Funds, Con App and Budgeting

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Use of Title II, Part A Funds, Con App and
Budgeting

• Title II, Part A Conference
• March 18, 2009

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Title II, Part A Intent

• To support activities that improve teacher
  quality
• To increase the number of highly qualified
  teachers, paraprofessionals, and principals in
  Georgia schools.
• To provide all students, including poor and
  minority, equitable opportunities to instruction
  by highly qualified, effective teachers.

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Title II, Part A Intent

• To develop and recruit, hire, and retaining
  highly qualified teachers and principals
• To provide an equitable opportunity to quality
  instruction for all students
• Ultimately to increase student understanding and
  achievement in academic subjects

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Use of Funds See Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Systems have flexibility to develop and implement
  activities to address needs identified in the
  annual needs assessment process that
• can result in a teaching staff that is highly
  qualified and able to help all students achieve
  high academic standards
• provide principals with the knowledge and skills
  to lead their schools efforts to increase
  student achievement

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Use of Funds See Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Professional Development Activities
• Recruitment/Employment/Retention Activities
• Teacher Advancement Initiatives
• Class Size Reduction

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Professional Development Activities See
Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• To improve the knowledge of teachers and
  principals and paraprofessionals in
• Content knowledge
• Classroom practices
• the use of challenging State academic content
  standards, and
• effective instructional strategies and skills

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Professional Development Activities See
Handbook Sec. VII, p. 2-8

• To improve knowledge of teachers and principals
  in effective instructional practices that
• Involve collaborative groups of teachers and
  administrators
• Address needs of students with different
  learning styles
• Students with special needs including gifted
  and talented
• Students with limited English proficiency

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Professional Development Activities See
Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Provide training to enable teachers and
  principals to
• improve student behavior in the classroom and
  identify appropriate interventions to help
  students with special needs
• involve parents in their childrens education,
  especially parents of limited English proficient
  and immigrant children
• use data and assessments to improve classroom
  practice and student learning

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Innovative Professional Development Activities
See Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Designed to improve the quality of the teaching
  force
• Technology literacy
• GACE preparation and testing
• Performance standards training
• Alternative preparation

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Leadership Development and Professional
Learning See Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Designed to improve the quality of principals and
  superintendents
• Includes the development and support of academies
  to help principals and superintendents become
  outstanding managers and educational leaders

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Recruitment/Retention Model Development See
Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Developing and implementing mechanisms to assist
  schools to effectively recruit and retain highly
  qualified teachers, principals, and specialists
  in core academic areas (and other pupil services
  personnel in special circumstances, as noted in
  the August 3, 2005 Federal Guidance, Section
  F-1).

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Recruitment/Employment/Retention Activities See
Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Providing monetary incentives for scholarships,
  signing bonuses, or differential pay for teachers
  in academic subjects or schools in which LEA has
  shortages
• Recruiting teachers of special needs
• children
• Recruiting qualified paraprofessionals an
  teachers with special skills for working with
  high poverty and/or minority students

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Recruitment/Employment/Retention Activities See
Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Providing routes to teacher certification for
  paraprofessionals
• Recruiting guidance counselors
• Only if system is meeting annual measurable
  objectives described in Title I, Section
  1119(a)(2) of ESEA
• In a manner consistent with recruitment/retention
  of HiQ teachers and principals

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Recruitment/Employment/Retention Activities See
Handbook Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Retaining highly qualified teachers and
  principals, particularly in schools of
  low-achieving students
• induction and support for new teachers and
  principals during their first three years
  including mentoring
• financial incentives to retain teachers and
  principals with a record of helping students to
  achieve academic success

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Teacher Advancement Initiatives See Handbook
Sec. VII, pp. 2-8

• Initiatives that promote professional growth and
  emphasize multiple career paths, such as
• mentor teacher
• master teacher
• academic coach

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Class Size Reduction See Handbook Sec. VII,
pp. 4-5

• Hiring highly qualified teachers to reduce class
  size, particularly in the early grades (must be
  based on greatest need of student numbers or
  student performance)
• Regular classroom teacher
• Co-teacher part-time or 100
• Resource teacher for a particular subject(s)
  reducing regular class numbers on continuous
  basis

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Professional Development Activities - Private
Schools See Handbook Sec. VIII, p. 14

• Annual notification of eligibility to participate
  in Title II-A
• Calculation of equitable participation
• Private school(s) included in annual needs
  assessment
• Private school opportunity for input in planning
• Grievance mechanism

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FY10 Con App Dates See Handbook Sec. VIII,
p.12

• CLIP opening date
• CLIP closing date
• Budget is closed until CLIP has been approved,
  funds are board approved and posted
• Budget completion date December 31, 2009
• Amendment deadline May 15, 2010

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2141(c) Agreement See Handbook Sec. V, p.27

• A Local Education Agency (LEA) not meeting100
  percent highly qualified requirement and not
  making AYP for three consecutive years must
  include in its improvement plan actions to enable
  the LEA to achieve the annual measurable
  objectives as described in NCLB, Section
  1119(a)(2).

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2141(c) Agreement See Handbook Sec. V, p.27

• In addition, the LEAs must enter into an
  agreement with the Georgia Professional Standards
  Commission on its use of Title II, Part A funds.
• The 2141(c) Con App Agreement must be signed
  and by the Title IIA coordinator and
  superintendent before the CLIP is uploaded.

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FY10 CLIP Descriptor 1 See Talking Points

• Includes a description of the LEAs comprehensive
  needs assessment process to include Title II,
  Part A, or a description of the Title II, Part A
  needs assessment process. Be sure to include ALL
  of the following
• recruitment
• retention
• professional learning (including meeting diverse
  student needs)
• class size reduction
• non-HiQ teachers and paraprofessionals
• equitable opportunities for all students in the
  areas of teacher quality, teacher experience and
  class size

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FY10 CLIP Descriptor 1 See Talking Points

• Statement/list of the resources utilized for
  valid needs information and data
• List of the prioritized needs for Title II, Part
  A must be provided at the end of Descriptor 1
• Statement identifying any school/system EQUITY
  need(s) MUST be placed after the LEAs
  prioritized list of needs. If the system has no
  equity needs, the LEA must make a statement to
  that effect. Example The LEA has no
  identified equity needs for FY10.

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FY10 CLIP Descriptor 15 See Talking Points

• A description of the following must be included
• Stakeholder involvement in the systems
  comprehensive process of assessing system needs,
  action planning, and assessing the action plan
• How parents are notified of non-highly qualified
  teachers
• How parents are notified of the parents Right
  to Know
• LEAs may cut and paste the Stakeholder
  Involvement section of their Equity Plan into
  this descriptor if it contains the above three
  elements. Please place at the end of descriptor15

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FY10 CLIP Descriptor 18 See Talking Points

• Descriptor 18 must contain the following
• FY09 updated information on teacher and
  paraprofessional highly qualified LEA
  percentages, with supporting remediation plans
  for non-HiQ teachers and paraprofessionals
• Statement describing the process for development
  and monitoring remediation plans of teachers and
  paraprofessionals

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FY10 CLIP Descriptor 18 See Talking Points

• FY09 updated information on system wide teacher
  and paraprofessional highly qualified
  percentages, with supporting remediation plans
  for non-HiQ teachers and paraprofessionals
• Statement describing the process for development
  and monitoring remediation plans of teachers and
  paraprofessionals
• The LEA Equity Plan may be cut and pasted into
  Descriptor 18

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FY10 CLIP Descriptor 18 See Talking Points

• Equity Plan must include the following
• Narrative including student equitable
  opportunity belief statement
• Needs assessment
• Equity of stakeholder involvement
• Teacher quality equity
• Teacher experience equity
• Class size equity
• Teacher preparation to meeting diverse
  student needs
• Recruitment and placement
• Retention
• The LEA Equity Plan may be cut and pasted into
  Descriptor 18

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FY10 CLIP Descriptor 19 See Talking Points

• Procedures of how the LEA prepares all
  teachers to meet diverse needs of students must
  be placed in descriptor 19. You may cut and paste
  Teacher Preparation to Meet Diverse Needs of
  Students of the Equity Plan for this
  Descriptors IIA requirement.

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FY10 CLIP Descriptor 21 See Talking Points

• A statement to include the following must be
  provided at the end of the descriptor
• Percentage of professional learning opportunities
  for FY09 that were scientifically based (high
  quality)
• Percentage of teachers that participated in at
  least one high quality professional learning
  activity during FY09

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FY10 CLIP Approval Process

• LEA coordinator signs off on CLIP
• Superintendent receives, reviews and signs off (5
  business day timeline begins)
• State program manager receives email of sign off,
  reviews, and sends approved CLIP to con
• app coordinator
• State con app coordinator compiles all program
  approvals and notified state plan approver of
  CLIP being ready.
• State plan approver emails LEA CLIP is approved

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FY10 CLIP Revision Process

• State program manager (s) request a revision
  within the 5 business days
• State con app coordinator compiles all requested
  revisions and emails State plan approver
• State plan approvers request for revision is
  forwarded to the LEA
• LEA amends CLIP and resubmits within 5 business
  days
• State program manager reviews revisions,
  approves, and notifies state con app coordinator
  within 5 business days
• State con app coordinator send revisions to state
  plan approver who notifies LEA of approval

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Budget Criteria See Handbook Sec. VII, p.11

• Budget must align with annual plan and plan must
  align with prioritized needs.
• Title II-A funds must be set-a-side to target
  the following
• Non-HiQ teachers and paraprofessionals
• NI and non-AYP schools
• Identified equitable student opportunity
• needs linked to teacher quality and
• experience

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Title II-A Funds See Handbook Sec. VII, p. 9

• Should be coordinated with other funding sources
  to meet system needs
• Must be used to supplement, not supplant, state
  and local funds
• LEA must demonstrate effective use

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Budgeting for Consolidation of Funds

• Option 1 1000-881
• Option 2 If LEA knows how school(s) will apply
  funds, the LEA may use appropriate function code
  with object code 881

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Carry-over LimitSee Handbook Sec. VII, p.12

• Title IIA carry-over funds from FY10 may not
  exceed 15 percent of the FY10 grant amount.
• Title IIA carry-over funds from FY09 may not
  exceed 20 percent of the FY09 grant amount.
• Waivers are not allowed for Title IIA.

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Restricted Use of Funds

• LEAs must restrict the use of Title II-A
  funds for central office/system-level
  administrative positions to 10 percent or less of
  the total annual Title II-A allocation.  
• If more than 10 percent of the annual
  allocation is budgeted for central
  office/system-level administrative positions, the
  LEA must
• Document a hardship need and/or effectiveness of
  the position in addressing prioritized Title II-A
  needs
• Obtain the written approval of the Title II-A
  consultant documented on the budget approval form

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Budget Amendments See Handbook Sec. VII, p.12

• Amendments are required if there is
• Increase or decrease in total grant amount
• Change in the scope of the grant
• 25 change on use of funds at the function level

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Title IIA Summary Points

• Know what is allowable and reasonable
• Include all stakeholders in process document
• Plan collaboratively based on assessed needs
• Budget collectively based on action plan
• Monitor remediation of Non-HiQ
• Develop and monitor effective use of funds