ESEA Title I Eligibility On the ESEA Title I Basic and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA Application

1.  ESEA Title I Eligibility On the ESEA Title I Basic and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Application

2. On the Eligibility screen, for each of your Title I-A eligible schools, you will be identifying the: Title I-A Service Code (targeted, schoolwide, or not served) Per pupil Amount Because you will be deciding the per pupil amount for each of the schools you serve, you must first fill out the beginning of your Title I-A basic application. This includes the following screens: Fiscal Agent Administration Reservations Enrollment Eligibility: Getting started Administration and Reservations skims monies off the top of your allocation. Enrollment provides you with accurate school data. By filling in these proceeding screens, you will have an accurate remaining allocation to work with and allocate to the schools.Administration and Reservations skims monies off the top of your allocation. Enrollment provides you with accurate school data. By filling in these proceeding screens, you will have an accurate remaining allocation to work with and allocate to the schools.

3. Once you have filled in the first four screens of your Title I-A basic application (burgundy), you will need to go into the Title I-A ARRA application (blue) and fill in the following screens: Administration Reservations Note: The above screens allow you to take money off the top of your Title I-A allocation. If they are not filled in, you will not be working with accurate numbers on the eligibility screen. Eligibility: Getting Started

4. For example, in this Title I-A ARRA Reservation screen, the monies that have been delegated to Administration, Professional Development, Parent Involvement, Family Literacy Services, Homeless Students and Migrant Education (all activities happening on a district level) will be taken off of the top of their Title I-A ARRA allocation. The last line on this screen then identifies that this leaves the remainder of the funds available for targeting to schools. In this case, $882,850.For example, in this Title I-A ARRA Reservation screen, the monies that have been delegated to Administration, Professional Development, Parent Involvement, Family Literacy Services, Homeless Students and Migrant Education (all activities happening on a district level) will be taken off of the top of their Title I-A ARRA allocation. The last line on this screen then identifies that this leaves the remainder of the funds available for targeting to schools. In this case, $882,850.

5. You are finally ready to fill in your Eligibility screen. In looking at the Eligibility Screen on your Title I-A basic application, be sure to choose the Eligibility option that will work best for your district. Keep the following things in mind when choosing an Eligibility option: Make sure that the schools you want to serve with your Title I-A dollars come up as eligible. Also, find the eligibility option that allows the MOST schools in your district to be Title I eligible. Even if you do not plan on serving all of the eligible schools, being identified as eligible qualifies these schools for: Additional grants and awards Tuition forgiveness for teachers Then, designate the “Service Code” for each of your district’s Title I-A eligible schools (targeted or schoolwide). Note: to be schoolwide you need to have had followed the process to become schoolwide and have submitted the appropriate paperwork to the DPI. Finally, determine the per pupil amount for each of your schools. It is up to the district how they will determine these amounts. I would like to thank Appleton Area Schools for letting us use their school data. Please note that the numbers that has been entered on all of the screen shots have been mocked up for the purposes of explaining eligibility in this PowerPoint. When looking at the application as a whole, they are not necessarily correct – and again, are here only to demonstrate the points we are making today. You are finally ready to fill in your Eligibility screen. In looking at the Eligibility Screen on your Title I-A basic application, be sure to choose the Eligibility option that will work best for your district. Keep the following things in mind when choosing an Eligibility option: Make sure that the schools you want to serve with your Title I-A dollars come up as eligible. Also, find the eligibility option that allows the MOST schools in your district to be Title I eligible. Even if you do not plan on serving all of the eligible schools, being identified as eligible qualifies these schools for: Additional grants and awards Tuition forgiveness for teachers Then, designate the “Service Code” for each of your district’s Title I-A eligible schools (targeted or schoolwide). Note: to be schoolwide you need to have had followed the process to become schoolwide and have submitted the appropriate paperwork to the DPI. Finally, determine the per pupil amount for each of your schools. It is up to the district how they will determine these amounts. I would like to thank Appleton Area Schools for letting us use their school data. Please note that the numbers that has been entered on all of the screen shots have been mocked up for the purposes of explaining eligibility in this PowerPoint. When looking at the application as a whole, they are not necessarily correct – and again, are here only to demonstrate the points we are making today.

6. You can allocate higher per pupil amounts to schools with higher percentages of low-income students. You cannot allocate higher per pupil amounts to schools with lower poverty rates than you allocate to schools with higher poverty rates. However, if your district has less than 1,000 students or only one school per grade span you are exempt from the above eligibility guidelines. Eligibility: Determining Per Pupil Amounts There will be a check in your Title I-A basic application to ensure that your schools stay in rank order. It will not let you submit the application if this section is not in rank order. There will be a check in your Title I-A basic application to ensure that your schools stay in rank order. It will not let you submit the application if this section is not in rank order.

7. Some issues to consider when determining per pupil amounts: 75 Percent Rule: All attendance areas or schools with at least 75percent poverty must be served. 35Percent Rule: A district may serve any school attendance area or school in which at least 35 percent of the children are from low-income families. 125 Percent Rule: When a Title I school building with less than 35 percent poverty is served, the per pupil amount must be at least 125 percent or 1.25 times the district per pupil amount. Eligibility: Determining Per Pupil Amounts I will go over the 125 percent rule later on in this PowerPoint. See slides 14 and 15.I will go over the 125 percent rule later on in this PowerPoint. See slides 14 and 15.

8. Once you have the eligibility page filled out on your Title I-A basic application (burgundy), go to the eligibility screen for your ARRA funds (blue) – shown here. If you keep all of your schools in rank order on both eligibility screens, you won’t have to do any additional work regarding rank-order. The district on this slide has kept all of their schools in rank order. As you can see on this screen, schools that have higher poverty are continuing to have higher per pupil amounts than schools with lower poverty levels. Your Title I-A eligible schools will have a drop down menu – giving you the option to start serving additional schools with your ARRA funds. There are blue arrows pointing to the additional schools that this district has decided to start serving with ARRA funds. This is an option to consider when brainstorming ways to utilize your ARRA funds to raise student achievement – serving more schools and students.Once you have the eligibility page filled out on your Title I-A basic application (burgundy), go to the eligibility screen for your ARRA funds (blue) – shown here. If you keep all of your schools in rank order on both eligibility screens, you won’t have to do any additional work regarding rank-order. The district on this slide has kept all of their schools in rank order. As you can see on this screen, schools that have higher poverty are continuing to have higher per pupil amounts than schools with lower poverty levels. Your Title I-A eligible schools will have a drop down menu – giving you the option to start serving additional schools with your ARRA funds. There are blue arrows pointing to the additional schools that this district has decided to start serving with ARRA funds. This is an option to consider when brainstorming ways to utilize your ARRA funds to raise student achievement – serving more schools and students.

9. This is a screen shot of ARRA eligibility page with per pupil allocations NOT IN RANK ORDER. As you can see, this district has chosen to give additional monies to schools that are already being served in the Title I-A basic screen (burgundy). However, they are not providing these funds in rank order. The highest poverty school, Columbus Elementary, has 64.25 percent poverty and is receiving a $300 per pupil amount (the black arrow). A school with lower poverty, Highlands Elementary, which has 47.84 percent poverty is receiving a higher per pupil amount at a $400 per pupil amount (the orange arrow). The same is true for the per pupil amount by the light blue arrow, Jefferson Elementary, with 41.44 percent poverty, they are again lower poverty and receiving an even higher $500 per pupil amount. It is okay to have your schools out of rank order on the ARRA screen (as seen here), as long as the total per pupil allocation (Title I-A basic + ARRA) remains in rank order. If your per pupil amounts are out of rank order on the ARRA screen you must follow up by hand checking your total school per pupil allocations (basic + ARRA) to ensure that when added together they remain in rank order. Again, rank order means that the district’s higher poverty schools are receiving more or equal per pupil amounts than lower poverty schools. One last note is that this district has chosen to give additional Title I eligible schools monies. The bottom three schools that they have allocated monies to in the ARRA application all have poverty levels below 35 percent (these are in the blue brackets). When this happens, a district must make sure that they are following the 125 percent rule. There will be more specifics on this rule in slides 14 and 15.This is a screen shot of ARRA eligibility page with per pupil allocations NOT IN RANK ORDER. As you can see, this district has chosen to give additional monies to schools that are already being served in the Title I-A basic screen (burgundy). However, they are not providing these funds in rank order. The highest poverty school, Columbus Elementary, has 64.25 percent poverty and is receiving a $300 per pupil amount (the black arrow). A school with lower poverty, Highlands Elementary, which has 47.84 percent poverty is receiving a higher per pupil amount at a $400 per pupil amount (the orange arrow). The same is true for the per pupil amount by the light blue arrow, Jefferson Elementary, with 41.44 percent poverty, they are again lower poverty and receiving an even higher $500 per pupil amount. It is okay to have your schools out of rank order on the ARRA screen (as seen here), as long as the total per pupil allocation (Title I-A basic + ARRA) remains in rank order. If your per pupil amounts are out of rank order on the ARRA screen you must follow up by hand checking your total school per pupil allocations (basic + ARRA) to ensure that when added together they remain in rank order. Again, rank order means that the district’s higher poverty schools are receiving more or equal per pupil amounts than lower poverty schools. One last note is that this district has chosen to give additional Title I eligible schools monies. The bottom three schools that they have allocated monies to in the ARRA application all have poverty levels below 35 percent (these are in the blue brackets). When this happens, a district must make sure that they are following the 125 percent rule. There will be more specifics on this rule in slides 14 and 15.

10. For each of the schools that you are serving with Title I-A and/or ARRA funds, add together: the per pupil amount on their Title I-A basic eligibility screen (burgundy) + the per pupil amount on their ARRA eligibility screen (blue) Eligibility: Ensuring Rank Order This is the equation that will need to be done if you choose to serve schools out of rank order on your ARRA eligibility page.This is the equation that will need to be done if you choose to serve schools out of rank order on your ARRA eligibility page.

11. Once you have a total per pupil amount for each of the schools being served with Title I-A dollars (basic and ARRA), make sure that your highest poverty schools are receiving equal or more dollars per pupil than schools that are lower poverty. IF schools are not in rank order, make the necessary programmatic and per pupil amount changes to remedy the situation. Eligibility: Ensuring Rank Order To reiterate, you cannot allocate higher per pupil amounts to schools with lower poverty rates than you allocate to schools with higher poverty rates.To reiterate, you cannot allocate higher per pupil amounts to schools with lower poverty rates than you allocate to schools with higher poverty rates.

12. There is a check on the Title I-A basic application (burgundy) that will: Ensure the district maintains rank order AND Ensure the district follows the 125 percent rule (if serving schools with less than 35 percent poverty). These checks are not in place on the ARRA application. It is for this reason that districts need to hand check their rank order and 125 percent rule when completing the ARRA application. Eligibility: Other Issues to Consider

13. This is the same screen shot of ARRA eligibility page with per pupil allocations NOT IN RANK ORDER. If you look at the three schools that have been added to Title I-A programming in the blue brackets – notice that these schools all have poverty levels below 35 percent. When this happens, a district must make sure that they are following the 125 percent rule.This is the same screen shot of ARRA eligibility page with per pupil allocations NOT IN RANK ORDER. If you look at the three schools that have been added to Title I-A programming in the blue brackets – notice that these schools all have poverty levels below 35 percent. When this happens, a district must make sure that they are following the 125 percent rule.

14. When a Title I school building with less than 35 percent poverty is served, the per pupil amount must be at least 125 percent or 1.25 times the district per pupil amount. This calculation is based on the total allocation before set asides/Reservations are deducted. The 125 percent rule applies only when the district elects to serve any Title I school below a 35 percent poverty rate. Since higher poverty buildings must receive at least the same per pupil expenditure amount as lower poverty buildings, this will require that each participating Title I school in the district receive at least 125 percent of the district per pupil expenditure. Eligibility: 125 Percent Rule * As a reminder, these are the specific guidelines for following the 125 percent rule.* As a reminder, these are the specific guidelines for following the 125 percent rule.

15. To determine the amount per child, add the LEAs Title I basic allocation plus the Title I ARRA allocation together. Divide the total allocation by the total number of children from low-income families in the district to arrive at a per pupil poverty amount for each low-income child. Multiply this amount by 1.25 to determine the minimum per pupil payment for each attendance area. 125 Percent Calculation

16. While it would be best complete your ESEA 2009-10 Title I-A basic and ARRA applications at the same time, we realize that this is not possible until final allocations are posted. IF you submit your ARRA application first, keep in mind that if your schools’ per pupil amounts end up being out of rank order once your Title I-A basic is submitted, your Consultant may require you to change per pupil amounts to be in compliance with rank order regulations. Eligibility: Other Issues to Consider

17. If you have any questions regarding your Title I-A basic or ARRA funds or the ESEA application, please let your Title I-A Consultant know. To find your Consultant, click here: http://dpi.wi.gov/titleone/aspx/t1consultants.aspx Eligibility: In Conclusion

18. Thank you and have a great day. The Title I and School Support Team Department of Public Instruction Eligibility: In Conclusion