Targeted Assisted vs' Schoolwide Title I Programs

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Targeted Assisted vs. Schoolwide Title I Programs

• Susan Popielski Regional Coordinator
• Karl Streckewald Regional Coordinator
• Division of Federal Programs

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TARGETED ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
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Targeted Assistance-Specific Resources

• Statute
• Section 1115
• Regulations
• none
• Non-regulatory guidance
• IASA April 1996

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Focus Identified Students Identified Title I
Teachers

• Must identify Title I students and provide with
  supplemental services
• Must ensure Title I are used to benefit
  identified students
• For schools ineligible or choose not to operate
  schoolwide

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Who is a Title I student?

• Students identified as failing or at risk of
  failing state standards
• Criteria is set by the LEA
• NOT based on poverty

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How to identify students?

• Students eligible
• Multiple measures
• Educationally related -
• Objective criteria developed by LEA
• If preschool-grade 2, judgement of teacher,
  interviews with parents, and other
  developmentally appropriate means

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Automatically eligible

• Head Start
• Even Start
• Early Reading First
• Migrant
• Neglected or Delinquent
• Homeless

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Components of TA Program

• Use Title I funds to help participating students
  meet state standards grade level goals
• Incorporate Title I plans into existing
  comprehensive school plans
• Effective methods and instructional strategies
  based on Scientifically Based Research (SBR)
• Extended learning time
• Accelerated, high-quality curriculum
• Minimize removing from classroom during regular
  hours

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Continued

• 4. Coordinate with regular ed program
• Highly qualified teachers
• Professional development
• Parental involvement
• Coordinate other federal, state, and local
  services and programs

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TAS Program Design

• pull out Program
• USDE Guidance encourages limited use since SBR
  does not support effectiveness of pull out
  programs.
• Current programs focus on extended learning
  time (extended school year, before- or
  after-school, summer school)

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Record Keeping!!

• Records must be maintained that document that
  Title I funds are spent on activities and
  services for only Title I participating students.
• Beware of Supplanting activities supported by
  Title I must be supplemental in nature, not take
  the place of required activities

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Incidental Inclusion

• School may provide, on incidental basis, Title I
  services to children who have not been selected
  to participate.
• Only if
• Designed to meet needs of Title I students and
  focused on those students
• Does not decrease amount, duration, or quality of
  service for Title I students
• Does not increase cost
• Does not result in the exclusion of children who
  would otherwise receive Title I services

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Comprehensive Services

• If health, nutrition, and other social services
  are not otherwise available to Title I students
• Comprehensive needs assessment indicates needs
  for these services
• Collaborative partnerships with community
  agencies and resources are in place
• Funds not reasonably available from other sources
• THEN Title I may be used for basic medical
  equipment (glasses, hearing aides), social
  service coordinator, prof development, etc.

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Staff supported by TA Program

• Title I-paid staff may. . . .
• Participate in general professional development
• Assume limited duties that are assigned to
  similar personnel, as long as in same proportion
  of time
• Bus Duty
• Cafeteria Duty
• Recess/Playground Duty

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Title I Paid-Prof Development

• May include any teachers that serve Title I
  students at some point during the day?
• Title I funds cannot be used to pay for
  professional development of staff who do not
  serve any Title I students at some point during
  the school day.
• LEAs must pro-rate costs associated with PD for
  nonTitle I staff through other funding sources.

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SCHOOLWIDE PROGRAMS
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Schoolwide Important Resources

• Designing Schoolwide Programs Guidance March
  2006
• www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/ designingswpguid.doc
  
• Title I Fiscal Issues February 2008
• www.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/fiscalguid.doc

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Schoolwide Programs Basic Requirements

• Consolidate federal, state, and local funds to
  upgrade the entire educational program
• Except Reading First
• Ensure all children meet standards, particularly
  those most at risk
• Requirement
• 40 poverty
• Schoolwide plan (including one year of planning)

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Consolidated Programs

• All formula (non-competitive)
• Except Reading First
• Includes IDEA, up to cap (but not exempt from
  programmatic requirements)
• All discretionary (competitive)
• Still must comply with application
• Need not account separately for specific
  expenditures

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Schoolwide Flexibility

• Must meet intents and purposes of program
• Not required to identify particular children all
  children
• Not required to provide supplemental services
  can use all resources of the school

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Recordkeeping in SWP

• Consolidating Funds
• DO NOT have to distinguish between funds or
  maintain separate accounting records
• DO have to assure the intents and purposes of the
  combined programs are being met

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Time and Effort Rules

• February, 2008 guidance
• If a school does not consolidate its funds into a
  single account, it must follow the normal rules
• Single cost objective semi-annual certification
• Multiple cost objective Personnel Activity
  Reports (time/effort logs)

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RecommendationTake Conservative Approach

• Assume SWP plan is a single cost objective
• If work 100 on SWP, keep semi-annual
• If work part on SWP and part other, keep monthly
  PARs

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Reporting Expenditures in SWP

• Proportional basis
• Example If 25 of combined funds are from Title
  I, then report 25 of expenditures as Title I
  expenditures
• Not required to track to activity allowable under
  program only show allowable under SWP plan

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Proportional Reporting LEA
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Sequential Reporting

• Use up funds in order based on source
• State and local first then Title I, Part A and
  other Federal funds
• Show expenditures until funds are spent in
  entirety or until maximum carryover remains

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Sequential Reporting
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Supplement not Supplant in SWP

• Use Title I funds only to supplement the amount
  of funds that would, in the absence of federal
  funds, be made available from non-federal sources
  for the school

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Fiscal Requirements in SWP

• Set-Asides
• 10 for School Improvement
• Portion of 1 for parent involvement
• An amount equal to Need not come from Title I
• Carryover
• 15 cap still applies on LEA level, regardless of
  whether allocation from SWP or TAS

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Common Monitoring Finding

• SWP Plan missing elements

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Heightened Federal Monitoring on SWP

• OIG monitoring
• SEA guidance on consolidating funds
• Description of how school implement components
• Description of how school will use resources to
  implement
• List of SEA and LEA programs and other federal
  programs that will be consolidated

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Components of SWP

• One year planning period
• 1. Needs assessment
• 2. Schoolwide reform strategies that
• a. Increase the amount quality of learning time
  (extended year, before- and after-school)
• b. Address needs of all, but particularly
  low-achieving

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Components of SWP (cont.)

• 3. Instruction by highly qualified teachers
• 4. Professional development
• 5. Strategies to attract high quality teachers
• 6. Parental involvement
• 7. Transition from pre-school
• 8. Include teachers in assessment decisions
• 9. Timely, effective additional assistance
• 10. Coordination and integration

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Needs Assessment Process

• Needs Assessment clearer focus in guidance
  March 2006 has 5 step process
• Establishing SW planning team
• Clarifying the vision for reform
• Creating the school profile
• Identifying data sources
• Analyzing data

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• Close attention to plan development requirements
• Developing over one-year period
• Developed with involvement of parents and other
  members of the community, including teachers,
  principals, administrators, etc
• In effect for duration of schools participation
• Available to LEA, parents, and the public in
  understandable and uniform format
• If appropriate developed in coordination with RF,
  ERF, Even Start, Perkins, and Head Start

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Paraprofessional Qualifications

• TAS Applies only to instructional
  paraprofessionals working in a Title I program
• i.e., paid with Title I funds
• SWP All instructional paraprofessionals

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Thank you

• QUESTIONS???
• Contact info
• Susan Popielski
• Spopielski_at_state.pa.us
• Karl Streckewald
• kstreckewa_at_state.pa.us