Maximizing Your Resources

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Maximizing Your Resources

• Mary Heath, Deputy Commissioner of Education
• Santina Thibedeau, State Director of Special
  Education

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Follow the Child

• captures and expands upon the spirit of No Child
  Left Behind and the urgency to move each child to
  academic proficiency and beyond.

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• Students to learn today, graduate tomorrow and
  prepare for the future

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• What Questions Might You Have?

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• Create an Understanding of What Your District
  Views as a Resource

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Resources

• Personnel
• Financial
• Data
• Other

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Federal Funds Available

• No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
  (IDEA)

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NCLB Funds

• Title I
• Title IIA
• Title IID
• Title III
• Title IV
• Title V

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IDEA FundsThese are formula grants

• Part B Funds
• Preschool Funds

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How do LEA apply for these funds?

• LEA Application
• SAU Application
• Consolidated Application

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Provisions of Allowable Cost for IDEA Funds

• Assistive Technology
• Instructional Equipment
• Related Services
• Special Education Service
• Supplementary Aids and Services
• Early Transition from Family-Centered Early
  Supports Services to Preschool Special
  Education

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Provisions of Allowable Cost for IDEA Funds

• Transition Services
• Activities centered around finding children who
  may need Special Education Services
• Professional Development for Personnel
  Preparation

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Early Intervening Services

• The Local Education Agency (LEA) may use up to 15
  percent of the amount the LEA receives under Part
  B of the Act for any fiscal year to develop and
  implement coordinated, early intervening services
  for students in kindergarten through grade 12
  (with a particular emphasis on students in
  kindergarten through grade 3) who are currently
  not identified as needing special education
  services, but who need additional academic and
  behavioral support to succeed in the general
  education environment.

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LEA may carry out activities that include

• Professional development for teachers and other
  staff to enable such personnel to deliver
  scientifically based academic and behavioral
  interventions, and where appropriate, instruction
  on the use of adaptive and instructional software

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• Provide educational and behavioral evaluations,
  services, and supports including scientifically
  based literacy instruction

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Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities

• RSA 194-B3(n) states methods of coordinating
  with pupils local education agency (LEA)
  responsible for matters pertaining to any
  required special education programs or services

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• School District might want to consider creative
  agreements with Charter School to deliver services

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NHDOE Initiatives

• Consider contacting the NHDOE to ask about
  current initiatives that might maximize your
  resources

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Current Initiatives

• School Improvement Coaches
• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
• Consider being a pilot sites
• Response to Intervention project
• General Enhancement Grant

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Updates from the NHDOE

• NHDOE is reviewing new Grant Management Systems
• NHDOE would like to remind School Districts to
  submit applications for the full amount of
  funding
• NHDOE consistently monitors the school districts
  to ensure that all funds are fully spent
• Each funding year the NHDOE reviews the grant
  application for ways to streamline the process