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Consolidation Legislation and Guidance
Title I Schoolwide Fiscal Guidance issued February, 2008 [Section E]
Designing Schoolwide (SW) Programs Guidance
Consolidation Legislation and
GuidanceEDGAR
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-87
69 FED. REG. 40360-64 (JULY 2, 2004)
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 program.
[Section E2]
What is the Purpose of Consolidation?
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].
State Aid dollars and local tax revenue
Title I, Part A
Title II, Part A
Title II, Part D (purposes)
Which Funds can be Consolidated?
When State-aid and local tax revenue is pooled with
supplementary Federal funds and/or Section 31a, individual
funding streams lose their identity. This provides the school more flexibility in program implementation.
Flexibility
The district could not afford costs associated with grade level meeting time
for analyzing assessment data. This meeting time was not allowable out of any
of the supplementary programs. Now, these meetings can be implemented in
accordance with the SW Reform model and comprehensive SW plan. The funding
source becomes moot.
Flexibility Example
Flexibility Example
The school determines that the summer school program needs funds in excess of the available Title I allocation. In a consolidated SW program, IIA funds could be used to support direct instruction without the necessity of a “transfer”.
Time and Effort – DRAFT!!!
If State Aid and local tax revenue are pooled with Federal dollars and/or
Section 31a, and personnel are 100% funded with pooled dollars AND performing a single FUNCTION
Semi-Annual Certification documentation is streamlined.
(MDE will provide a template.)
Budget
Consolidated Application budgeting requirements are GREATLY reduced.
One district level budget that includes aggregate amounts for all
consolidated schools. Single item per function and cost objective.
No need to submit the Consolidated Application and Title I School Selection
by May 13th.
A July 1 submission date of a quality application will ensure mid-August
approval.
Due Date
If Section 31a funds are pooled, the requirement for Eligibility Worksheets and identification of eligible students is
eliminated.
Eligibility Worksheets
Increased technical support for schools and districts related to school improvement planning.
Technical Support
School Improvement Plan
Emphasis is on a high-quality plan rather than the level of description
included in the budget.
Eligible targeted schools can accelerate the year of planning to become a
consolidated SW school for 2011-12.
Targeted Schools
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.
Schoolwide Plan
Exceptional, comprehensive Schoolwide Plan that is focused
on an identified Schoolwide reform and aligned to the
comprehensive needs assessment.
Basic Program
Historical school-level basic educational program is identified
and continues to be offered. (MDE will provide a template.)
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]. (See “Combining Funds in a
SW Program” Template.)
Supplement not Supplant
Each school operating a SW program must receive all the State and local funds it would otherwise receive to operate its educational program in the absence of Title I, Part A or other [supplemental] education funds [E-2].
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]. (See “Combining Funds in a SW
Program” Template.)
Other Program Responsibilities
Annual Title I, Part A meeting
Parent involvement
Agendas, sign-ins, bids, contracts
District required set-asides
Other Program Responsibilities
Maintenance of Effort
Title I Comparability
Title I School Selection
Health and Safety and Civil Rights
Financial Accounting
“Virtual” pooling – maintain multiple grant numbers, function codes and cost objectives.
Two drawdown options: (1) Proportionate charging (2) Sequence charging
Functional category reporting must still be maintained
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]
Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting
Comparability – Two Options:
(1) Proportionate charging (2) Other
Ability to determine if Federal funds are unspent at the end of the year.
Programmatic
Review of proposed activities
Activities linked to needs assessment
Research base
Monitoring
A school operating a SW program that is consolidating only Federal education funds and Section 31a funds must ensure these funds are being used only to address instructional needs that are identified in the SW plan and directly linked to the school’s needs assessment.
Monitoring
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