School Site Council

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School Site Council

• Program Guidelines

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School Site Council (SSC) Annual Requirements

• Revise and recommend expenditures from
  categorical funds
• Assess the effectiveness of the Single Plan for
  Student Achievement (SPSA)
• Review and update the SPSA and establish the
  budget

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Emersons Major Categorical Funds

• Title I
• EIA-LEP
• GATE (separate guidelines)

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Title IEconomic Impact Aid-State Compensatory
Education (EIA-SCE)

• The purposes of Title I and EIA-SCE funds are to
  meet the educational needs of children in
  low-income households and children in local
  institutions for neglected or delinquent
  children.
• Participants include students who are at risk of
  failing, disabled, and English learners.

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A Note

• Additional support may be provided through
  professional development and health and guidance
  services.
• Parents of children being served should be
  included in the design and implementation of the
  program through activities such as
• Developing a parent involvement policy,
  school-parent compact, parent-teacher
  conferences, parent training and family literacy,
  serving as classroom volunteers, tutors, aides,
  etc.

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EIA - LEP

• Priorities for EIA LEP funding
• English Learners attain English proficiency and
  meet the same challenging academic content and
  achievement standards that other students are
  expected to meet (grade level)
• Provide professional development to teachers,
  administrators, and other school support staff to
  improve English Language Development (ELD)
  instruction

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Other Priorities

• Parent outreach and training
• Community participation
• Family literacy services
• Tutorial and intervention activities
• Supplementary instructional materials

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Components of the Budget Planning Process

• Comprehensive Needs Assessment
• Single Plan for Student Achievement
• Budget
• Budget Justification Pages

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Comprehensive Needs Assessment

• Academic Performance Index (API)
• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
• California Standards Test (CST)
• California English Language Development Test
  (CELDT)
• District Measures (Periodic Assessments)
• Grades
• Input by ALL Stakeholder Groups

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Comprehensive Needs Assessment CEAC/ELAC Role

• Data on student achievement must be shared with
  the advisory committees.
• Based on analysis, WRITTEN recommendations are
  sent to the School Site Council (SSC) on official
  form and documented in the committees minutes.

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Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)

• The SSC responds to recommendations from
  CEAC/ELAC by

• Aligning content of the SPSA with school goals
  for improving student achievement
• Determining how funds will be used to improve
  academic performance of all students to the level
  of school performance goals
• Communication in writing to the respective
  committees about decisions made and documenting
  these decisions in the SSC minutes and on the
  official form, which is returned to committees

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SPSA

• The SPSA must

• Be collaboratively developed, approved, and
  reviewed annually
• Meet the reporting requirements of all funding
  sources

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Developing a School Budget

• Single Plan must be evaluated annually.
• Schools MUST restructure budget expenditures if
  students are not showing sign of academic
  improvement.

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Developing a School Budget

• There must be a clear relationship and alignment
  between the planned supplemental instructional
  program expenditure and the Single Plan for
  Student Achievement (SPSA)
• A SPSA Update page must be prepared if no such
  clear relationship exists.

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Supplemental Funds

• Supplemental funds are those funds which are
  granted to districts and schools for specific
  program purposes and which are over and above the
  general revenue funds the districts and schools
  receive to support the core program.
• Supplemental funds must be used to support and
  enhance the districts core program.
• Supplemental funds may not be used to replace or
  supplant the funds and instructional programs
  already provided in District schools.