Office of Federal Programs Allowable Uses of ESEA Funds October 2014.

Office of Federal ProgramsAllowable Uses of ESEA Funds

October 2014

Title I, Part A – Low Income

PurposeTo provide financial assistance through state educational agencies to local educational agencies and public schools with high numbers or percentages of poor children to help ensure that all children meet challenging State academic content and student academic achievement standards.

Uses•Salaries for Teachers, Paraprofessionals, and Tutors

•Professional development

•Educational software

•Computers

•Parental Involvement activities

Prohibited Activity: Supplanting

District Admin : 20% cap (inclusive of indirect cost)

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Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Smaller classes or special instructional spaces

•Additional teachers and aides

•Opportunities for professional development for school staff

•Extra time for teaching Title I students the skills they need

•A variety of supplementary teaching methods

•An individualized program for students

•Additional teaching materials which supplement their regular instruction

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Examples•Salaries, Benefits, and Travel for Federal Programs Director, Bookkeeper, Secretary, and Title Teachers•Parent Center Coordinator, Parent Liaison, Instructional Coach, Academic Tutors•Software (READ 180, CASE 21, CCSS, AIMS Webb, Success Maker, Lexis Learning, Compass Learning, Stride Academy)•Software (Apex learning, Fastmath, Fraction Nation, Scholastic Do the Math, Renaissance Learning, Study Island, School Status)•Interactive White Boards, Laptop, Smartboards, Projectors, Computers, Printers, Chromebooks, Laptop Cart•Teaching Supplies•CCSS Remediation strategies for SATP2/MCT2


Title I, Part D Neglected & Delinquent

PurposeThis program is for supplementary educational services that help provide education continuity for children and youth in state-run institutions for juveniles and in adult correctional institutions, so that these youth can make successful transitions to school or employment once they are released from state institutions.

Uses•Ensuring that Title I services are incorporated into the existing planning process •Using effective instructional strategies that increase the amount of quality learning time providing an accelerated high quality curriculum •Coordinate with and support the regular educational program•Instruction by highly qualified professional staff•Professional development •Strategies to increase parental engagement, including family literacy services

Prohibited Activity: SupplantingLEA Admin: 20% (cap inclusive of indirect cost)



Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Acquire equipment •Evaluation cost •Hire teachers, aides, educational counselor •Purchase Educational materials, supplies, books, computers, audio-visual equipment •Purchase classroom materials for industrial arts and vocational training •Parental engagement activities•Mentoring and tutoring •Transition services •Drug and alcohol abuse counseling



Examples•GED materials•Program facility administrator and assistant•Supplemental Books•Educational games•Software•Assessment tools•Mentoring services•Teachers•Tutors•Transition coordinators•Health screening•Counseling services•Parental involvement services


Title I, 1003(a) Priority and Focus Schools

PurposeTo support schools not meeting adequate yearly progress (AYP) for multiple years to implement school reform strategies and make AYP.

UsesInstruction or to support instruction and initiatives identified in the school(s) plan.

Prohibited Activity: SupplantingLEA Admin: $0


Title I, 1003(a) Priority and Focus Schools

Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Costs directly associated developing the required school improvement, corrective action, and/or restructuring plans

•Educational materials, supplies, books, computers, audio-visual equipment

•Parental involvement activities

•School improvement initiatives, corrective actions, and restructuring initiatives, required by ESEA.


Title II, Part AImproving Teacher Quality

PurposeTo increase the academic achievement of all students helping schools and districts improve teacher and principal quality and ensure that all teachers are high qualified.

Uses•To recruit, hire and retain highly qualified teachers and principals•To provide research-based, high-quality professional development activities•To provide training activities to enhance the involvement of parents in their child's education•To pay the costs of State tests required of new teachers to determine whether they have subject matter competence and to assist them in meeting State certification requirements•To purchase supplies or instructional materials used as part of professional development activities•To provide increased opportunities for minorities, individuals with disabilities, and other individuals underrepresented in the teaching profession



Prohibited Activity: SupplantingLEA Admin: Restricted Indirect Cost Rate

Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers, principals and specialist in core academic areas •Recruiting, hiring and retaining highly qualified teachers and principals •Professional development activities that improve the knowledge of teachers and principals •Carrying out professional development programs that are designed to improve the quality of principals and superintendents, including the development and support of academics to help them become outstanding managers and educational leaders•Hiring highly qualified teachers in order to reduce class size particularly in the early grades

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Examples•Data Coaching•Behavior Classroom Management•Language Essentials for Teacher of Reading and Spelling•Thinking Maps•Instructional facilitators•Instructional specialist•PLCs


Title III, Part A – Limited English Proficiency

PurposeTo ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) children, including immigrant children and youth, master English and meet the same rigorous standards for academic achievement as all children are expected to meet, including meeting challenging State academic content and student academic achievement standards by developing high-quality language instruction educational programs.

Uses•To implement high-quality language instructional programs built on scientifically based research demonstrating the effectiveness in increasing English proficiency and student academic achievement in the core academic subjects•To provide high-quality professional development •To annually assess the English proficiency of all LEP students served by activities carried out under this section



Uses continued:•To upgrade program objectives and effective instructional strategies; •To improve the instruction program for LEP children by identifying, acquiring, and upgrading curricula, instruction materials, educational software and assessment procedures; •Provide tutorials and academic, or vocational and technical training; •Provide community participation programs, family literacy services, and parent outreach and training activities to LEP children and their families;



Uses continued:

•Acquire or develop education technology, including materials in languages other than English

•Participate in electronic networks for materials, training, and communication, and incorporating information derived from such participation in curricula and programs.

Prohibited Activity: Supplanting

LEA Admin: 2%



Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Purchasing instructional material, and educational software•Upgrading program effective instructional strategies•Identifying, acquiring, and upgrading curricula and materials•Providing tutorials and intensified instruction•Developing and implementing language instruction programs coordinated with other relevant programs and services•Providing community participation programs, family outreach, and family literacy programs•Improving instruction through educational technology, electronic networks for materials, training and communication, and incorporating resources into curricula and programs

Examples•Title III Teacher, Tutor, Consultants, Professional Development, Travel to/from PD•Rosetta Stone, English in a Flash, Software, Computers, IPADs•ELLevations•TESOL fees


Title III, Part A – Immigrant

PurposeTo assist local educational agencies (LEAs) that experience significant increases in their student population due to immigration. The term immigrant children and youth refers to individuals who: •are aged 3 -21•were not born in any state; and•Have not been attending one or more schools in any one or more States for more than 3 full academic years.

Uses•To provide family literacy activities and parent outreach•To support personnel (teacher aides)•To provide provisions of tutorials, mentoring and academic or career counseling for immigrant children and youth



Uses continued:

•For identification and acquisition of curricular materials, educational software, and technologies to be used in the program carried out with funds

•For basic instruction services that are directly attributable to the presence in the school district involved of immigrant children and youth, including the payment of costs of providing additional classroom supplies, cost of transportation, or such other costs as are directly attributable to such additional basic instruction services



Uses continued:

•Other instruction services that are designed to assist immigrant children and youth to achieve in elementary schools and secondary schools in the United States, such as programs of introduction to the educational system and civics education; and

•Activities, coordinated with community-based organizations, institutions of higher education, private sector entities, or other entities with expertise in working with immigrants, to assist parents of immigrant children and youth by offering comprehensive community services.


Title IV, Part B21st Century Community Learning Centers

Purpose

To create community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities for children and their families by providing a safe environment for students when school is not in session.

Uses

•Remedial education activities and academic enrichment learning programs, including providing additional assistance to students to allow the students to improve their academic achievement

•Mathematics and science education activities

•Arts and music education activities

•Entrepreneurial education programs

•Tutoring services and mentoring programs



Uses continued:•Programs that provide after-school activities for limited English proficient students that emphasize language skills and academic achievement•Recreational activities•Telecommunications and technology education programs•Expanded library service hours•Programs that promote parental involvement and family literacy•Programs that provide assistance to students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled, to allow the students to improve their academic achievement•Drug and violence prevention programs, counseling programs, and character education programs



Prohibited Activities•Construction•Excessive equipment or software purchases •Supplanting

LEA Admin: 20%



Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Hiring personnel

•Purchasing instructional supplies

•Purchasing Equipment

•Professional Development

Examples•Coordinator

•Tutors

•Snacks

•Material for Activities (i.e. culinary arts)


Title VI, Part B.2 – Rural and Low

PurposeTo address the unique needs of rural school districts that frequently lack the personnel and resources needed to compete effectively for Federal competitive grants and receive formula grant allocations in amounts too small to be effective in meeting their intended purposes.

Uses•Teacher recruitment and retention•Professional development•Educational Technology•Parental involvement activities•Activities authorized under the following programs: Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities State Grants program, Title I - Part A, and Title III

Prohibited Activity: SupplantingLEA Admin: Restricted Indirect Cost Rate


Title VI, Part B.2 – Rural and Low

Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Signing bonuses and other financial incentives

•Software and Hardware

•Violence, drugs, alcohol and tobacco prevention programs and activities

•Hiring teachers and tutors

•Instructional supplies

Examples:•Same examples as Title I, Part A

•Computers, Software


Title X, Part C – Homeless Education

PurposeTo provide activities for and services to homeless children and youth including preschool-age children, that enable these children to enroll, attend, and succeed in school.

Uses•To provide before or after school tutoring, supplemental instruction and enriched educational activities •To provide evaluations of strengths, needs, eligibility for programs and services•All activities may be provided on school grounds or at other facilities including sectarian property.

Prohibited Activities: •Purchasing equipment •Supplanting

LEA Admin: No cap



Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Tutoring, supplemental instruction, and enriched educational services

•Expedited evaluations of strengths and needs of homeless students (gifted and talented, disabilities, and EL)

•Professional development

•Referral services for medical, dental, mental, and other health services

•Transportation

•Developmentally appropriate early childhood education programs not provided through other federal, state or local funds.

•Services to attract, engage, and retain homeless students in public school programs and services provided to non homeless students

•Before and after school, mentoring, and summer programs in which a teacher or other HQ individuals provides tutoring



Funds available to LEAs may be used for activities such as:•Payment of fees and other costs associated with tracking, obtaining, and transferring records necessary for enrolling•Education and training of parents of homeless children about rights of and available resources to such children•Coordination between schools and agencies providing services•Pupil services and referrals for services such as violence prevention counseling•Activities to address needs such as domestic violence•Adaptation of space and purchase of supplies for non-school facilities•School supplies•Extraordinary or emergency assistance



Examples:•Doctor visits to include medical, dental, mental, other health services•Salaries for tutors, bus drivers, home site liaisons•School supplies, snacks, educational computer software programs •Professional development including travel to local, state, and national activities•Parental and community involvement activities•Tutoring•Referrals for dental, medical, and other health services•Emergency assistance


Administrative Consolidation

The LEAs may operate an administrative cost pool as allowed under ESEA. All administrative funds are consolidated into the cost pool and used for personnel salaries, travel, commodities, and contracted support as necessary and reasonable to carry out monitoring, evaluation, technical assistance and training functions.

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Marcus E. Cheeks, Director of Federal [email protected]

Adrienne Williams, Office [email protected]

Farrah Nicholson, Office [email protected]

Melanie Diggs, Finance [email protected]

Questions: [email protected] Phone: (601) 359-3499

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