Carl D Perkins (Perkins IV)
Core Indicators, Reports,
Negotiated Performance Targets, and Perkins Funds
Workshop
Chuck Wiseley
Spring 2009
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Agenda
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• Why are we here – why do we care?
• Perkins IV
– Legislative requirements
• State & Local requirements
• Negotiating & Meeting Targets
– Perkins IV Local Application
– Not meeting targets & targeting funds
• Perkins funds - improving student success
– Performance Targets, Core Indicators, Reports
• Setting Targets
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Session Goals & Objectives
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• Perkins funds - improving student success.
• What are the Rules?
• Negotiating & Meeting Targets
– Tools for analysis
– Not meeting targets & targeting funds
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Perkins IV
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• Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical
Education Improvement Act of 2006
• P.L. 109-270
• August 12, 2006
• 2007-8 Transition Year
• 2008-9 First Year under the Act
– Negotiated targets in Spring 2008
• 2009-10 uses negotiated targets
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Negotiating Targets
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• Perkins IV
– State negotiates targets USDE
• Targets for 1 year and then 2 years (3 rd & 5 th )
– Locals either:
• Accept those targets
• Negotiate local targets
– Included in Local Plans
• Targets for next year
• Improvement section when not at 90% of target
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Sanctions in Law
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• Perkins IV
– State & Locals:
• 90% of Perkins Targets
• Improvement Plan
• Year 2 no improvement, <90% for 3 years for any single target
– Feds or State SHALL provide technical assistance
– MAY withhold funds (all or part)
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CCC Sanction Plan:
• Application is an Improvement Plan
– Underlying process using data analysis
• Accountability Determination
– In compliance – at or above 90% of target
• Expenditures need not be linked to the areas with the largest performance gaps
– Focused Improvement Status - < 90%
• Year 1 – Focused Improvement section
• Year 2 – No Improvement: Diagnostic Study
• Programs funded must address individual program performance gaps.
– Priority Focused Improvement – 3 rd Yr < 90%
• Diagnostic Study and Action Plan
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Priority Focused Improvement
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Focused Improvement section
• Diagnostic Study
• Action Plan
– Expected outcomes,
– Perkins and other funding dedicated to each strategy, and
– the implementation dates expected for each strategy.
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Odds of being in:
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Focused Improvement ?
– Depends on how well the negotiation goes.
• Improving after
Focused Improvement ?
– Depends on choices last year.
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Priority Focused Improvement ?
– Depends on how well the negotiation goes.
– Unlikely to occur?
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The Negotiation Process
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• Negotiation Workbook
– Online - Core Indicator site
– Tables
– Charts
• Negotiation Worksheet
• Local Application
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Predicting Outcomes

Negotiation Tables
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Chart 1P1
Mention Office 2003 v 2007

District CI 1-3 w/ problem
Problem?
90% x 55.6% = 50%
What has occurred?
Outcomes & Diagnostics

Faupl

Faupl p2
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Local Application: District
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Section IE-D

CTE 7 a

CTE 7

Perkins IV funds
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• Improving student success.
– Nine Requirements
– 20 Permissive Uses
– Should address performance gaps
• Perkins IV Local Application.
– Improvement Plans
– Negotiating & Meeting Targets
– Progressive Oversight, Improvement Plans, and Risk Monitoring
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With or Without Sanctions
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Basic criteria for expending Perkins funds
• Expenditures must
– Meet the purpose of the Act
– Be necessary and reasonable
• Expenditures may not be used for
– General purposes
– Maintenance of existing programs
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• Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Act
(Perkins IV)
• EDGAR
(Education Department
General Administration Regulations)
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(Continued)
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• OMB Circulars (Office of Management and
Budget)
– Circular A-87 Cost Principals – State and Local
– Circular A-21 Cost Principals – Education Institutions
– Circular A-133 Single Audit Requirements
– Circular A-102 Grants and Cooperative Agreements with State and Local Governments
– Circular A-110 Uniform Administration Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher
Education, Hospitals and Other Non-Profit
Organizations
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What types of costs are
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Administrative Costs (5%)
•
Personnel Services (time records)
•
Operating Expenses
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Stipends
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Consultants
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Instructional Materials
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Travel
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Instructional Equipment
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1.
Student expenses or direct assistance to students *
2.
College tuition, fees, books*
3.
Entertainment
4.
Awards and memorabilia
5.
Individual memberships
6.
Membership with orgs. that lobby
7.
Fines and penalties
8.
Insurance/self-insurance
9.
Expenses that supplant
10. Audits except single audit
11. Contributions and donations
12. Contingencies
13. Facilities and furniture *
14. General advertising
15. Alcohol
16. Fund raising
17. General administration
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What are the 9 requirements for
Funds made available to eligible recipients under this part shall be used to support career and technical education programs that-
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Strengthen academic & technical skills of students
2.
Link secondary and postsecondary CTE programs
(at least one program of study)
3.
Provide students with strong experience and understanding all aspects of an industry (WBL)
4.
Develop, improve, & expand use of technology
5.
Professional development
6.
Evaluate programs with emphasis in meeting needs of spec. pops.
7.
Initiate, improve, expand and modernize quality programs
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Provide services & activities of sufficient, size, scope and quality
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Provide activities to prepare special pops. for high skill, high wage, or high demand occupations leading to selfsufficiency.
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20 permissive uses of funds:
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Involve parents, business and labor in planning & operation
2.
Career guidance & academic counseling
3.
Business Partnerships - Work-related experience students & faculty
4.
Programs for spec. pops.
5.
CTE student organizations
6.
Mentoring & support services
7.
Upgrading equipment
8.
Teacher prep. programs
9.
Improving and developing new CTE courses including distance ed.
10. assist transition to BA degree programs
11.
support entrepreneurship education
12.
initiatives for secondary students obtaining postsecondary credit to count towards an
AA/AS or BA/BS degree
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support small CTE learning communities
14.
Family & consumer sciences
15.
Adult CTE programs
16.
Job placement programs
17.
Support Nontraditional activities
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Automotive technologies
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*Pooling funds –
Teacher prep, data & accountability, assessments
20.
Support other CTE programs
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Effects of not achieving targets
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• Above 90% of targets:
– Freedom to fund any program improvements
– Encouraged to address low performance
• Below 90% - year 1
– Focused Improvement section
• Requires some analysis
– target interventions
– write the narrative
– Must address low performance in funded Programs
– Encouraged to start a diagnostic study
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Effects of not achieving targets
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• Below 90% in year 2 or no improvement
– Focused Improvement section
– Diagnostic study
– Propose Effective Practice solutions
• Probably a more district level approach to expenditures
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Effects of not achieving targets
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• Below 90% of target - 3 years
– Focused Improvement section
– Submit Diagnostic study w Action Plan to CO
– Action Plan
• Proposed Effective Practice solutions &
Implementation dates
• Probably an even more district level approach to expenditures
– Risk Monitoring
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Questions & Break time
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• Questions
• 15 minute break
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