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Michigan and the American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act of 2009October 13, 2009

State Board of Education

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Update Since August State Board Meeting

Grants Status: Reviews, Timelines & Awards

GAO Report: September 23, 2009 Reporting Requirements Integrated Education Reform

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ARRA Grant Programs:Updates

ARRA Title I, Part A, Improving Basic Programs 723 applications received; 353 applications

approved $366 M allocated; $63 M approved; $2.7 M drawn

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ARRA Title I, Part D, Neglected or Delinquent Prevention/Intervention 49 applications received; 13 applications approved $6.9 M allocated; $1.55 M approved; $0 drawn

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ARRA Grant Programs: Updates

ARRA Special Education Flowthrough 55 applications received; 48 approved $98 M allocated; $98 M approved; $7.6 M drawn down

ARRA Special Education Preschool 57 applications received; 45 approved $6.7 M allocated; $4.3 M approved; $86 K drawn down

ARRA Early On Michigan 57 applications received; 52 approved $6.17 M allocated; $5.8 M approved; $230 K drawn

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ARRA Grant Programs: Updates

ARRA Education Stabilization Used to restore cuts to FY 2009 State School Aid 760 applications received; 760 approved $600 M allocated; $600 M approved; $598 M drawn

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ARRA TEFAP $995 K admin funds distributed to 29 agencies $3.9 M Commodity Food Entitlements awarded

ARRA National School Lunch Equipment Grant Awards to 104 school districts/agencies (167 buildings)

participating in the National School Lunch Program $2.5 M in grant funds awarded/$224 K paid out

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ARRA Grant Programs:Updates

ARRA McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Grant 29 consortium applications received and

approved $2.36 M approved

ARRA Title II, Part D Enhancing Education Through Technology Competitive Award: $11.5 M; applications in

review Formula: $11.5 M; allocations to be

announced in October

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ARRA Grant Programs:Challenges & Successes

Deferred ability to draw federal funds No signed State School Aid budget

Monitoring Time lines Reporting

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GAO Report: September 23, 2009

Third bi-monthly review Focus on how funds have been used,

how safeguards have been implemented and how recipients were assessing results

Reviewed six Recovery Act programs…three from USED- State Fiscal Stabilization- Title I, Part A- IDEA, Parts B & C

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Reporting Requirements

Section 1512 Reporting

Program Performance Reporting

Final Expenditure Reporting

Financial Information Database

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Section 1512 Reporting Quarterly reporting for each ARRA grant award

1st submission: October 10, 2009 Next submission: January 10, 2010

Majority of report information available in CMS and MEGS Special report created in MEGS

Additional information from districts Number of jobs created or retained; description of type of

jobs Vendor information for vendors contracted with ARRA funds Infrastructure expenditures

All MDE reports submitted by October 8, 2009 850 sub-recipients reported through MEGS Collaborative effort with MDE, DIT, CEPI, Governor’s ER

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