christine.mccormick@tea.state.tx.us
ashley.behnke@tea.state.tx.us
paul.moreno@tea.state.tx.us
• Implement compensatory, intensive, or accelerated instructional
services that enable students to be performing at grade level at
the conclusion of the next regular school term
• Shall offer additional accelerated instruction to each student in
any subject in which the student failed to perform satisfactorily
on a required EOC assessment
• Directly serve students at risk of dropping out of school with
activities that supplement the regular education program
• Reduce the disparity in:
• Student performance on state assessments
• Rates of high school completion
• Sets at-risk criteria
• Allows for local eligibility criteria
TEC 42.152
To fund supplemental programs and services designed
to eliminate any disparity in performance on
assessment instruments or disparity in the rates of
high school completion between students at risk of
dropping out of school, as defined by Section 29.081,
and all other students.
• Costs of compensatory education program under 29.081
• Costs of a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program
(DAEP) under 37.008
• Costs of placing students in a juvenile justice education
program (JJAEP) under 37.011
• Support programs eligible under Title I ESEA on a
campus with at least 40% educationally disadvantaged
• Local eligibility criteria
, may not be funded
must be used to provide support programs
and/or services that supplement the regular education
program
• SCE Consultants
• PEIMS Specialists
• Curriculum
Specialists
• Counselor
Contacts
School Districts
Regional ESCs
Texas Education Agency
• Federal & State
Education
Policy
• Financial
Compliance
• School Finance
• Administrators
• Business
Office
• Coordinators
• PEIMS
• Counselors
• Teachers
• Parents
under the age of 26
the remainder of his/her public school education.
Exception: A student not advancing from Pre-K or
Kindergarten only as a result of a request from the
student’s parents is not considered at risk.
under the age of 26
2.
In grade 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, did not maintain an
average equivalent to 70 on a scale of 100 in two or
more subjects in the foundation curriculum during a
semester in the preceding or current school year or
is not maintaining such an average in two or more
subjects in the foundation curriculum in the current
semester
under the age of 26
3.
Did not perform satisfactorily on an assessment
instrument administered to the student under Subchapter
B, Chapter 39, and who has not in the previous or current
school year subsequently performed on that instrument or
another appropriate instrument at a level equal to at least
110 percent of the level of satisfactory performance on
that instrument
under the age of 26
4.
If the student is in prekindergarten, kindergarten,
or grade 1, 2, or 3, did not perform satisfactorily on
a readiness test or assessment instrument
administered during the current school year
under the age of 26
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=7087
http://www.esc16.net/users/0005/State%20Comp%20Ed/9.%20%20Pre
gnancy%20Related%20Services-Section%20IX.doc.pdf
under the age of 26
6. Has been placed in an alternative education program
in accordance with TEC Section 37.006 during the
preceding or current school year
under the age of 26
7.
Has been expelled in accordance with TEC Section 37.007
during the preceding or current school year
8.
Is currently on parole, probation, deferred prosecution, or
other conditional release
under the age of 26
9. Was previously reported through the Public Education
Information Management system (PEIMS) to have dropped
out of school.
under the age of 26
limited English proficiency,
under the age of 26
11. Is in the custody or care of the Department of Family and
Protective Services or has, during the current school year, been
referred to the department by a school official, officer of the
juvenile court, or law enforcement official.
NEW!
-Foster Care and Student Success Resource Guide
-District Foster Care Liaisons
-PEIMS Code for Foster Care Students
-DFPS required to inform schools
-Schools required to enter status into PEIMS
under the age of 26
12. Is homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 11302 and
subsequent amendments. (
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=2147503685
http://www.utdanacenter.org/theo/
under the age of 26
13. Resided in the preceding school year or resides in the current
school year in a residential placement facility, including a
detention facility, substance abuse treatment facility,
emergency shelter, psychiatric hospital, halfway house, or
foster group home.
• Must be criteria adopted by the local Board of Trustees
• Number served during a school year may not exceed 10% of all
students served during the previous school year
• The need must be documented prior to providing the specified
instruction to locally identified at-risk students.
• Must document the need in the comprehensive needs assessment
and the D/CIP
• Must clearly define the program in the D/CIP, or instructional plan
for charter schools
• The SCE allotment may not be used to provide services on a
campus that does not have any students that meet the statutory
definition of being at risk to drop out of school
• Students identified using local eligibility criteria are not reported
through PEIMS
https://wfspcprdap1b16.tea.state.tx.us/Fsp/Reports/ReportSelection.aspx
• Select ‘Summary of Finances’ from the dropdown box
• Select the school year and enter either the County District Number or District Name
• Select the most recent date from the list and then select the format in
which you want to download the report: HTML, PDF, or Excel
• In the report, scroll to Tier I Allotments The district’s SCE allotment is
listed under ‘24-Compensatory Education Allotment
Ashley.Behnke@tea.state.tx.us
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=25769817568&menu_id=645
From TEA’s
Home Page,
click on Funding
Then click on
FASRG
Email: financialaccountability@tea.state.tx.us
FAR Guide – See Section
1.4.15.4 for PICs.
SCE PICs start on Page 493
Module 9: SCE
Fund Code 199
Program Intent Codes (PICs) 24, 26, 28, 29, 30 and 34
• PIC 24 is for direct supplemental services to at-risk
students for accelerated instruction
• On a non-Title I campus
• On a Title I campus that is not schoolwide
• For students under the Title I, Part C Migrant program
• PIC 30 is for allowable activities on a schoolwide campus
• Supporting Title I
• Any allowable PIC 24 expenditures that are on a schoolwide
campus
Refer to the Financial Accountability Reporting (FAR) Guide,
Section 1.4.15.4, Compliance Monitoring – Program Intent
Codes, for guidance regarding the types of costs to be
recorded to each PIC.
paul.moreno@tea.state.tx.us
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=4082
• Due approximately 150 days after the final PEIMS
submission – usually mid-July
See FASRG module 9.1.2
• A district shall evaluate the effectiveness of accelerated
instruction programs
• Annually hold a public hearing to consider the results
• Each district shall evaluate and document the effectiveness of
accelerated instruction on reducing disparity in performance on
assessments or disparity in the rates of high school completion
between at risk and other students
• Identify successful strategies
• Redirect resources from unsuccessful strategies
• Include results in the district improvement plan
• Documents the program’s effectiveness on increasing student
achievement
• Demonstrates the efficient use of resources
• Informs administrators regarding progress and results
• Tool for program improvement
Required by TEC 29.081(b-3)
Written policies and procedures include:
• Identifying students who are at risk of dropping out of
school – what are your processes?
• Entrance and exit processes for SCE programs
• Documenting 10% expenditures cap on local criteria
• Selecting students that meet local criteria
• Lack of program documentation, including policies and
procedures regarding SCE program operations, clear job
descriptions, public comment notices, etc.
• No evaluation of SCE program
• Incorrectly identified at-risk students
• Lack of supporting documentation in district and campus
improvement plans
• Expenditures do not meet the intent of SCE
• Expenditures on job positions not related to direct instruction
• Supplanting state-mandated expenditures by using SCE funds
• Expenditures that do not supplement the basic education
program
• Insufficient purchase order documentation
To directly serve students at risk of dropping out of school by
implementing compensatory, intensive, or accelerated instructional
services that enable students to be performing at grade level at the
conclusion of the next regular school term.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=4082
Frequently Asked
Questions document
found here on TEA’s
website
christine.mccormick@tea.state.tx.us
ashley.behnke@tea.state.tx.us
paul.moreno@tea.state.tx.us