Consultation Meeting with
Private School Partners
Rochester City School District
Office of Grant & Program Accountability
February 6, 2008
Objectives
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To provide clarity on financial compliance items of
mutual interest
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To provide clarity on program compliance items of
mutual interest
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To discuss viable options for moving forward for the
remainder of the 2007-08 academic year
4)
To discuss tentative plans for the delivery of Title I
services in 2008-09
Consultation must include:
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How the children’s needs will be identified
What services will be offered
How and when decisions about the delivery of
services will be made
How, where and by whom services will be provided
How services will be assessed and improved based
on assessment results
Size and scope of services
Add’l Consultation topics
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Criteria to identify and select eligible private
school children
Coordination of the Title I program with
instruction in the classroom
Appropriate assessment tools
Process for LEA monitoring
Financial Compliance: Context
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The Child Benefit Theory was developed to comply
with the prohibition against Federal funding to
private schools.
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Title I Services:
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Benefit the individual child, not the private
school
Are provided by the LEA, not the private school
NO FUNDS GO TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Financial Compliance: Context
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Funds must be used for instructional services
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Exception: The equivalent of $8/child (lowincome resident of the City of Rochester) must be
used for parent involvement activities.
The LEA must carryover unspent funds
designated for services to the next year’s
program for private school participants.
Carryover is not a viable option if schools are
closing.
Financial Compliance:
Pooling funds
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If funds generated by low-income private
school children are pooled* within an LEA,
services provided to eligible children in a
particular private school are not dependent
upon the amount of funds generated by lowincome children in the private school.
Financial Compliance:
Bottom Line
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Private schools may not directly hire staff
Private schools may not use funds to purchase
materials and supplies
Private schools may not receive funds to
support professional development
Program Compliance:
Who may receive Title I services?
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Private school children who reside in Title I
participating public school attendance areas AND
are failing or most at risk of failing to meet high
standards
LEA selects participants from names of eligible
children provided by private school officials based
on multiple, educationally-related, objective,
developmentally-appropriate criteria
Poverty is NOT a criterion
Program Compliance:
What criteria may be used to determine
if students are “at-risk?”
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Achievement tests, teacher referral and
recommendation based on objective, educationally
related criteria, academic performance in the regular
classroom
Children from preschool through grade two are
selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher
judgment, interviews with parents, and
developmentally appropriate measures. [See Section
1115(b)(1) and (2)]
Program Compliance:
Allowable types of Services
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Direct instruction or tutoring outside the
regular classroom in a dedicated space
After or before school programs
Saturday programs or Summer school
Early childhood
Counseling
Appropriate professional development
Computer-assisted instruction, or
Combination of these services
Program Compliance: Do’s & Don’ts
Placing materials and supplies
in the private school to be
used by private school
personnel is not allowable.
Program Compliance:
Supplement, not supplant
Title I services must be in addition to
and cannot replace services that
would be provided by private
schools to their private school
participants.
Program Compliance:
Do’s & Don’ts
Title I services cannot be provided in
the regular classroom through
cooperative learning or joint
teaching.
Program Compliance:
Do’s & Don’ts
Private school teachers cannot provide Title
I services unless they are employees of
the LEA or under contract with the LEA
Program Compliance:
Do’s & Don’ts
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Provider of Title I services must be either an
employee of the LEA or an employee of a third party
under contract with the LEA.
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LEA teachers must meet HQT requirement.
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Paraprofessionals must meet the qualification
requirements, provide instructional support, and be
under the direct supervision of and in close and
frequent proximity to a HQT public school teacher.
Program Compliance:
Do’s & Don’ts
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Title I funds may only be used to meet the needs of
participating children.
Non-Title I private school children may not use
materials paid with Title I funds.
LEA must retain title to all materials (i.e. – including
computers) purchased with Title I funds.
All materials, etc. purchased with Title I funds must
be labeled “Property of Rochester City School
District” and placed in a secured location when not
in use.
Program Compliance:
Assessment
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After consulting with private school officials,
the LEA must establish what assessment will
be used to measure the effectiveness of the
Title I program against the agreed upon
standards.
May use the State assessment or another
assessment that is aligned to the agreed upon
standards.
All participants are assessed annually.
Program Compliance:
Assessment
Every year, the LEA, after consulting with
private school officials, must determine
what constitutes acceptable annual
progress for the Title I program.
Program Compliance:
Assessment
If the expected annual progress is not met, the
LEA, after consulting with the private school
officials, must review the program and
determine what modifications it should make
to the Title I program in order to improve the
achievement of the private school
participants.
Moving Forward:
remainder of 07-08
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The RCSD may provide additional services
during the remainder of the year
The RCSD may carry over any unspent funds
the private school participants for the next
school year.
Moving Forward:
remainder of 07-08
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Requests for materials and supplies or
professional development in the Title I
program must be made on the RCSD Title I
request form and must include a clear
justification for how the request will be used
to support Title I students
Send requests to Linda Kendall at
linda.kendall@rcsdk12.org
Next year: ’08 - ’09
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Brief discussion of options
Contact us:
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Mr. Terry Hofer
Terry.hofer@rcsdk12.org
585.262.8388
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Dr. Ray Giamartino
Raymond.giamartino@rcsdk12.org
585.262.8299
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Ms. Linda Kendall
Linda.kendall@rcsdk12.org
585.262.8679