ABCs of ARRA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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ABCs of ARRA(American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act)
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Goals of ARRA

• Stimulate economy in short term
• Invest to ensure the health of the economy in the
  long term

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Nationally, for EducationARRA
100,000,000,000(100 Billion over two years)
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Massachusetts, for EducationARRA
1,302,000,000 (over two years)
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ARRA Education Funds for Massachusetts

• Early Education and Care
• Child Care 24.0 M
• Pre-school special education 10.1 M
• Elementary and Secondary
• IDEA 280.5 M
• Title I 163.4 M
• Title II
  10.5 M
• School Improvement 40 M
• McKinney-Vento Homeless 1.0 M
• National School Lunch 1.4 M
• Emergency Food Assistance
  2.14 M
• ESE and Department of Higher Education
• Stabilization 813.3 M
• Governor intends to use 168M and House I to
  ensure all districts reach foundation

Total allocation is 994.4 M, 18.2 is for
public safety and other services which may
include school building modernization, renovation
and repair.
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ARRA Competitive Grants

• Teacher Incentive Funds 200 M
• Performance-based compensation
• Longitudinal Data Systems 250 M
• State Incentive Grants 5 B
• Race to the top
• Innovation Fund 650 M
• Achievement awards for teachers, schools, and
  districts

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Other Education-Related Funds

• School Construction Bonds
• Expansion of QZAB program
• Qualified school construction bonds
• Build America bonds
• Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
• Pell and Work Study Grants
• Higher Education Teacher Quality Enhancement
  Program

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Principles of ARRA for Education

• Spend funds quickly to save and create jobs
• Improve student achievement through reforms
• College/career ready standards and high quality
  assessments
• PK-college and career data systems
• Teacher effectiveness and equitable distribution
  of HQT
• Intensive support and interventions for low
  performing schools
• Ensure transparency, reporting, and
  accountability
• Will require public reporting about use of funds
  and results achieved
• Avoid the funding cliff
• Invest in ways that do not result in
  unsustainable commitments after the funding
  expires

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ARRA Accountability Requirements

• New fund codes will be established for each ARRA
  grant program
• For all funds, LEAs must separately account for,
  and report on, how ARRA funds were spent and the
  results of the expenditures.
• USDE has indicated they will require quarterly
  collections of data, all of which will be posted
  on the government website.

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Other guidance we have provided to districts

• Use at least 50 of their ARRA funds on strategic
  investments.
• Coordinate the development of Title I and IDEA
  grant applications. We intend to review them
  together.
• Use ARRA funds to support and strengthen regional
  and collaborative approaches to achieve
  efficiencies and economies of scale.

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Stabilization funds

• Supplements Chapter 70 allocations
• Governor reserving some funds for higher ed, some
  for FY11
• Amounts are tentative
• Use for 2000 and 9000 series expenditures
• Yes, its a grant
• Can be used to satisfy state/local MOE
  requirements
• Pension contributions dont know yet

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IDEA

• Initial allocations for FY10 already posted
• Applications available later this spring awards
  by July 1
• Pre-school grants through Dept of Early Ed Care
• 2nd allocations announced this fall for FY11
• Similar to but slightly less than FY10
• Will also see small increases in regular IDEA
  allotment for FY10
• Use for any eligible special education
  expenditures
• Reduction of maintenance of effort requirements

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Title I

• Initial allocations for FY10 to be posted first
  week of April
• For districts eligible for Targeted Grants and
  EFIG Grants only
• If you only qualify for Basic or Concentration
  grants, sorry
• Applications available later this spring awards
  by July 1
• 2nd allocations announced this fall for FY11
• Supplement not supplant requirements still in
  place
• Guidance coming on supplanting due to fiscal
  crisis

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