Mandates

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Mandates

• Only Three are Partially Funded
• All Others are Unfunded Mandates

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Mandates

• Mandates are those things that all schools are
  required to do by state or federal law
• And
• Either partially funded (circuit breaker for
  special education) or completely UNFUNDED
• Those things include,
• but are not limited to

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Mandates

• Provide English language instruction by a
  certified ESL teacher to all students who are
  identified as English Language Learners (ELL
  students)
• FY11 3 students FY12 2 students FY13 1
  student FY14 4 students
• Provide services in-district to students with
  disabilities who qualify for special education or
  a 504 plan
• 300 in-district special education students
  (17 of total enrollment)
• 80 students on 504 Plan
• Provide services in out-of-district placements to
  students with disabilities who require those
  services
• 23 students
• Nonpublic placements 10 Collaborative
  placements 13
• Total Cost690,395 Total Cost 470,666
• CB offset409,571 CB offset 96,658
• Budget 280,822 Budget 374,007
• Total Special Education out-of-district cost to
  the budget
• 1,161,033
• 4. Provide services to children ages 3 and 4
  years old who have disabilities (pre-school
  age)-In District
• FY1216 students FY14 48 students

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MORE Mandates

• 5. Provide tuitions to Vocational Schools,
  Agricultural Schools and Charter schools for all
  Carver students who choose to attend
• Norfolk Agricultural School 4 students _at_ 22,594
  per student each year 90,376/year
• Charter school _at_ 60,000/year
• Bristol Plymouth Agricultural school-4students
  _at_18,860 per student 75,440/year
• School Choice We bring in 90,000/year and We
  spend 5,000/year on (1) student who chooses to
  go to other school choice districts
• 95 Students attend Old Colony at a total cost of
  680,000 which is in the Town Budget
• 6. Provide transportation to all students who
  attend Vocational and
• Agricultural schools
• Total Cost of 20,000
• 7. Provide transportation for all students with
  disabilities who attend Special Education schools
  in out-of-district placements
• 23 students _at_ a total cost of 398,262
• 8. Share transportation costs for all children
  who are homeless
• McKinney/ Vento legislation
• 5 students _at_ a total cost of transportation of
  20,000
• PARTIALLY FUNDED by NEW Legislation

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More Mandates

• 9. Provide extended school year services
  (summer) to students with disabilities who
  require these extended services
• 140 Students (we must also provide
  transportation)
• 10. Provide educational services after grade 12
  through age 22 for students with disabilities who
  require these services
• 4 Students (1 student pays tuition
  from Middleboro)
• Note that the Foundation Budget from the state
  only accounts for 1 of the budget to be
  allocated to all Special Education Costs
• 1 of the 2014 level funded budget(21,324,3920
  213,242 to fund the entire districts special
  education budget. 1 will not pay for 16 of the
  students identified as Special Needs.
• The Foundation Budget Formula is flawed due to
  many UNFUNDED mandates
• Actual 2013 Special Education Costs for out of
  district costs are about 1,, this does not
  include in-district Special Education programs.
  The total Special Education expense for in and
  out-of-district exceeds 5,000,000.

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MORE and MORE Mandates

• 11. Schedule ALL elementary students into 900 hrs
  of structured learning time (5 hours per day
  excluding lunch)
• 12. Schedule ALL secondary students into 990
  hrs of structured learning time (5.5 hours per
  day excluding lunch and studies)
• 13. Input and submit student, teacher, school and
  district data several times per month to the Dept
  of Education
• EPIMS-Educator Information System-evaluation
  data is now part of this system
• Plus the Student Information System more than
  55 fields of data for every student must be
  continuously updated.
• DOZENS of reports- School Attending Children,
  Discipline Reports, Enrollment reports, etc. must
  be submitted from the data system
• 14. Fund 40 hours of SEI (Sheltered English
  Immersion) training for every teacher now
  changing to a more rigorous requirement and all
  teachers must be re-trained in the new system
  even though we only have 1 student.
• 15. Fund a minimum of 12 hours of Educator
  Evaluation training for every teacher
• 16. Follow all USDA requirements for school
  lunches (more expensive products)

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MORE and MORE and MORE Mandates

• 17. Provide a trained mentor for every new
  teacher for a minimum of one year
• 18. Yearly updates on federal and state mandated
  trainings for educators Ethics, Mandated
  reporting, Restraint Training, 504 and I.E.P.
  regulations, Bullying Intervention and Prevention
  and coming soon, the New Discipline Law
• 19. Yearly updates for bus drivers, custodians,
  and paraprofessionals First Aid, CPR, EPI Pen,
  Bullying Intervention and Prevention and job
  specific training for each of these employees
• 20. Purchase one to one electronic devices
  (tablets and/or computers) for students to take
  the required online testing for the PARCC test
  which will replace the MCAS in 2015
• 21. Upgrade the technology infrastructure to
  support a minimum of 150 students taking an
  online test at the same time
• 22. Train teachers and students to use these
  devices before the tests are actually implemented
• 23. Provide one to one tutoring or pay for an
  out-or district tuition for students who are
  suspended or excluded for an extended period of
  time (as of 2014 school year)
• 24. Provide Special Education Services (upon
  request) for Carver students who are enrolled in
  private and or public out-of-district schools
  (such as Charter or Virtual Schools and many
  private or parochial schools)
• 25. Purchase data system for New Teacher
  Evaluation System Year 1 14,000

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Per Pupil Expenditure

• FY2013 Carver Per Pupil Expenditure
• 12,904
• Massachusetts State Average Per Pupil Expenditure
• 14,000