It’s time for LEAs to start planning for use of federal funds for the FY22 school year. This is a time to look ahead and project how we will spend our federal dollars based on the LEA’s needs. It’s a time of gathering data to enable an efficient review of the current year and prior
Happy New Year! May 2021 bring an end to Covid-19 quickly! As we wait for Covid-19 to end, it looks like the Covid-19 Relief bill signed by President Trump will give K-12 schools more ESSER funds. According to FutureED, the new relief package will provide 54.3 billion dollars to K-12 schools. The earlier CARES Relief bill
About now, many districts are looking at making revisions to their FY19, FY20, or even FY21 plans. In addition, Title reallocations should be released soon. Revisions can be cumbersome and time consuming. I would like to share with you some hints I’ve discovered over the years that help me complete my revisions and help with
As I’m sure you are now aware, a summary judgment was issued against the ESSERF Interim Rule which resulted in it being thrown out by the courts. ESSERF is now to be allocated in the same manner as for equitable services for Title I schools. If this has caused problems for you like it has
It’s time to update our Title I Schoolwide Plans. Since our plans are a three-year plan, the schools do not have to update all of the plan. Schools only have to revise the sections in MCAPS that have changed. In addition, since standardized tests were not given in the spring, we don’t have test scores,
It’s September, and we are still in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Some schools are back in traditional settings, some are in virtual, and some are in hybrid mode. Some schools have delayed opening. It is certainly strange times, isn’t it? As a superintendent friend of mine has said, the word for the year
In my previous post, I made note of the limitations on spending funds based on Betsy DeVos’s ruling. It looks like the limitations I noted are now inaccurate due to a new interim rule. From the recent email from MDE and from additional reading I have done on the topic, it looks like if all
I’m sure most of you are aware that MDE chose to allocate equitable services based on poverty as opposed to private school student enrollment, as guidance from the US Department of Education detailed. There has been much disagreement on Capitol Hill with DeVos’s interpretation of the Act. Members from both sides of the aisle in
As we approach the CARES ESSER funding period, along with one year extensions for spending FY19 and FY20 monies, and with FY21 carryover requirements waived, districts may find themselves with what is perceived to be extra funds. The temptation may be to use schoolwide federal dollars to pay for personnel previously funded by district dollars.