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Schoolwide. Consolidation. Consolidation Legislation and Guidance. Title I Schoolwide Fiscal Guidance issued February, 2008 [Section E] Designing Schoolwide (SW) Programs Guidance. Consolidation Legislation and Guidance (cont.). EDGAR Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-87

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  1. Schoolwide Consolidation

  2. Consolidation Legislation and Guidance • Title I Schoolwide Fiscal Guidance issued February, 2008 [Section E] • Designing Schoolwide (SW) Programs Guidance

  3. Consolidation Legislation and Guidance (cont.) • EDGAR • Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-87 • 69 FED. REG. 40360-64 (JULY 2, 2004)

  4. What Does Consolidation Mean? • Schoolwide school treats the funds it is consolidating as a single “pool” of funds. • Funds from the contributing programs lose their identity. • The school uses funds from this consolidated schoolwide (SW) pool to support any activity of the SW Plan. • [Section E2]

  5. The purpose of consolidating funds is to help a SW program school effectively design and implement a comprehensive plan to upgrade the entire educational program in the school based on the school’s needs identified through its comprehensive needs assessment [E-1]. What is the Purpose of Consolidation?

  6. Which Funds can be Consolidated? • State Aid and local tax revenue • Title VI • Section 31a • Title I, Part A • Title II, Part A • Title III

  7. Consolidation Options • Federal funds only • Federal funds + Section 31a funds • Federal funds + Section 31a + State/Local • Federal funds + State/Local

  8. Why Consolidate?

  9. If State/Local funds are consolidated with Federal funds and personnel are solely funded out of the consolidated funds, then Time and Effort documentation is minimized. Time and Effort

  10. Due Date A July 1, 2012 submission date of a quality Consolidated Application in MEGS, and a quality School Improvement Plan in the AdvancED Portal, will ensure a review (and, we hope, approval) of the Consolidated Application prior to the start of school.

  11. Eligibility Worksheets When Section 31a funds are consolidated in a SW program, the requirement for Eligibility Worksheets is optional for that school.

  12. The emphasis is on a high-quality Schoolwide SIP rather than the level of description included in the budget. Schoolwide School Improvement Plan (SIP)

  13. Consolidation Requirements

  14. Initial Eligibility The school must be eligible to receive Title I, Part A funds according to the Title I School Selection application, have greater than 40% poverty and have engaged in a year of planning to become a schoolwide school with an approved facilitator.

  15. Comprehensive Needs Assessment The school must conduct a comprehensive needs assessment (using all four types of data) to identify gaps in student achievement and identify needs of students, staff and other stakeholders.

  16. Schoolwide SIP A comprehensive Schoolwide SIP that is focused on an identified Schoolwide reform and aligned to the comprehensive needs assessment

  17. Basic Program The historical school-level basic educational program must be identified and continued to be offered. If you are consolidating State/Local funds, additional information will be submitted in the Consolidated Application.

  18. Identification of Consolidated Funds SW school must identify in its SW plan which programs are included in its consolidation and the amount each program contributes to the consolidated SW pool [E-2]. This is done on a template that is uploaded under “Additional Requirements” in the SIP in AdvancEd.

  19. Equitable Services Funds must be shared with private schools as required by legislation.

  20. Supplement not Supplant Each school operating a SW program must receive all the State and local funds it would otherwise receive to operate its basic educational program in the absence of Title I, Part A or other Federal education funds [E-2].

  21. Intent and Purposes The school must be able to demonstrate that its SW program contains sufficient resources and activities to reasonably address the intent and purposes of the included programs, particularly as they relate to the lowest-performing students. [E-14].

  22. Intent and Purposes (cont.) The school may only use consolidated funds to meet the intent and purposes of the funding sources that are pooled. Ex., schools may only use funds to support state/local activities if state/local funds are included in the consolidation.

  23. Other Program Responsibilities • Annual Title I, Part A meeting • Parent involvement • Documentation: agendas, sign-ins, bids, contracts, invoices, ledgers • District required set-asides

  24. Other Program Responsibilities • Maintenance of Effort • Title I Comparability • Title I School Selection • Health and Safety and Civil Rights

  25. Record Keeping

  26. Programmatic Record Keeping Documentation must be maintain that sufficient resources have been allocated to ensure the intent and purposes of programs were fulfilled particularly as they relate to the lowest-performing students.

  27. Financial Accounting • The business office must maintain multiple cost objectives. • Reimbursements will occur from each funding source. • Final Expenditure Reports must align to budgets and expenditures.

  28. Distribution of Funds State Aid and local tax revenue must be distributed fairly and equitably to all schools–including SW program schools–without regard to whether those schools are receiving Federal and State supplementary funds. [E-18]

  29. Comparability • Comparability must be completed. • There may be a new way to think about comparability.

  30. Carryover The business office must maintain the ability to determine if Federal funds are unspent at the end of the year.

  31. Monitoring

  32. Schoolwide SIP • The Schoolwide SIP is the focus of program monitoring and includes: • Review of the SIP and • Implementation • The Schoolwide SIP MUST be closely aligned to the SW budget detail.

  33. Ineligibility Criteria • Monitoring findings • FER deviations • Lack of internal controls • Single audit findings • Deficit • Lack of school-level decision making • Late applications or SIPs that do not adequately address all of the required SW components

  34. Will Targeted Schools be able to participate? Eligible targeted schools with a minimum 40% poverty rate that become schoolwide by Fall, 2012, and meet the specified criteria may participate.

  35. QUESTIONS

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