ALSDE/A+ College Ready Finance Call October 27, 2015 Working Together for Student Success! A+ College Ready Partnership Memorandum of Agreement • Memorandum of Agreements will be mailed to the district office by end of October • MOA is between A+ College Ready and the District • MOA needs to be signed by Superintendent, CSFO and District AP Coordinator. These need to be returned to the address below by November 30, 2015 • A+ College Ready Attn: Jenifer Glover P O Box 4433 Montgomery, Al 36103 • An electronic copy was emailed on 10/26/2015. We would like for the high school principal and school AP coordinator to respond to the email and acknowledge they have read the MOA 2 A+ College Ready Partnership Reimbursement Process • All reimbursements will come directly from A+ College Ready • The reimbursement process cannot start until after the MOA has been signed and returned to A+ CR • You will use the A+CR reimbursement request form. This will replace the ES-2 form used in previous years • Reimbursement requests will be mailed to Jenifer Glover at A+ CR • Please print this form and put in your 2015-2016 tab in your blue finance notebook • Final requests must be submitted before October 15, 2016 3 A+ College Ready Partnership Reimbursement Form 4 A+ College Ready Partnership Budget Descriptions • Budget Descriptions are broken into two categories • Categories A+CR will reimburse or pay directly to the district • Categories A+CR will cover directly • Please refer to Budget Descriptions sent in the email 5 A+ College Ready Partnership Budget Timeline • APSI • May request summer 2016 after you have received your invoices from Auburn/Alabama • Lead Teacher Stipends • May request Fall 2015 • Available to district with more than one school in district • 1 Lead Teacher per discipline per district (Math, Science and English) • $1,000 per Lead Teacher per school (maximum of $3,000 per Lead Teacher) • Please include teacher name, amount, and expected date teacher will be paid through payroll • AP Teacher Stipends • May request Spring 2016 after final Saturday Study Session • $100 per Saturday Study Session and $200 for the Saturday of the 2-Day training (maximum $500 total) • No stipend for vertical team meetings • Please include teacher name, amount, and expected date teacher will be paid through payroll 6 A+ College Ready Partnership Budget Descriptions • AP Exams • You will receive $46 per Math, Science, English and Social Studies exam • You will receive $3 per free/reduced Math, Science, English and Social Studies exam • AP Exam fee schedule will be available later in the year • AP Coordinator will need to complete the AP Exam breakdown sheet and submit along with the full College Board invoice 7 A+ College Ready Partnership Budget Descriptions • AP Equipment Funds have been sent to all Districts based on lists of items to be purchased • Record of AP items purchased must be compiled and returned to Jenifer Glover by December 31, 2015. This should be one packet per school that provides the invoices that match the approved AP supply list for all MSE and SS courses. • Packet needs to be mailed to A+ College Ready Attn: Jenifer Glover P O Box 4433 Montgomery, Al 36103 Please include a cover sheet with your school and district name inside the package • Only schools that complete this step will be eligible for AP equipment funds next summer 8 A+ College Ready Partnership Budget Descriptions • Equipment Funds for 6-11th grade teachers who attended LTF training and signed an LOA to teach LTF infused courses to 80% fidelity have been sent to the District • A list of all Pre-AP items purchased must be compiled and returned to Jenifer Glover by December 31, 2015. • Please email your compiled list to jenifer@aplusala.org. Please put your school name, LTF equipment list 20152016 in the subject line. • Only schools that complete this step will be eligible for LTF infused course equipment funds next summer 9 A+ College Ready 1230 1st Avenue North Birmingham, Alabama 35203 Telephone: 205-257-5349 Facsimile: 205-257-5344 Website: www.apluscollegeready.org Mary Boehm, President marydboehm@bellsouth.net Kitty Morgan, Math Content Director kitty@aplusala.org Teri Thompson, Chief Program Officer teri@aplusala.org LeeAnn Latta, Math Content Manager leeann@aplusala.org Liz Walston, Director of Training lizw@aplusala.org Diann Frucci, English Content Director diann@aplusala.org Jenifer Glover, Finance Manager jenifer@aplusala.org Pam Walker, English Content Manager Pam@aplusala.org Melissa Crook – Office/Data Manager Melissa@aplusala.org Robert Summers, Science Content Director robert@aplusala.org Dale Fleury – Director Social Studies and Civics Chip Turner, Science Content Manager Chip@aplusa.org Initiative - Dale@aplusala.org 10 Thank you for your time today! Remember to visit: www.apluscollegeready.org/admin