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131 Livingston Street Conference Room 610 July 9, 2008. NYC Department of Education Supplemental Education Services End of Year Provider Conference 2007-2008. Topics of Discussion. Update on SES 2007-08 Update on the Contract Application Process Results of Monitoring Report
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131 Livingston Street Conference Room 610 July 9, 2008 NYC Department of EducationSupplemental Education Services End of YearProvider Conference2007-2008
Topics of Discussion • Update on SES 2007-08 • Update on the Contract Application Process • Results of Monitoring Report • End of Year Report • End of Year Reconciliation Process • Certification and Final Payments • Incentives Policy • New NCLB SES Database and System • SES 2008-09
Update on SES 2007-08 • APPROXIMATELY • 205,000 eligible students • 80,000 enrolled students • 67,000 students served • 63 providers enrolled students
Update on the Contract Application Process • Change in PPA • Amendment to Contracts
Results of Monitoring Process • 234 provider programs visited (at 175 schools) • 30 providers observed • Findings will be mailed shortly. • Monitoring results will be shared with the NYSED as part of end of year report • Monitoring will continue in 2008-09
End of Year Report • Pursuant to the Regulations of the NYS Commissioner of Education, LEAs must annually submit a monitoring report to the NYSED for each provider it contracts with to provide SES. The Regulations further provide that a copy of a report prepared annually by each SES provider and submitted to the LEA, be attached to the LEA's monitoring report submitted to the Department (see 8 NYCRR §120.4(f)). TO BE COMPLETED BY ALL PROVIDERS: • Part C • Questions 1-5 • Questions 6-19 • Complaint Form • “Unsuccessful” Explanation Form • Part D • Provider Assurance Form
End of Year Report – Part C DOE: Student Counts provided by NCLB/SES Database as of 6/30/08 P: Number of complaints, fill out “Complaint Form” which describes nature/resolution of complaints P: “S”,”U”, or “NA” if you successfully served students with different needs P: “S” or “U” to indicate if met expectations, fill out “Unsuccessful Explanation Form” to explain why you did not meet expectation
End of Year Report • PART C TEMPLATE DATA 08-09.xls
End of Year Report – Part D • Providers will attest that they have met the expectations as outlined in their contract with SED and NYCDOE • Provider Assurance Form (Part D of the End of Year Report) will be sent out to providers and must be signed in BLUE ink only and the hard-copy returned to DOE by mail at the below address: • Kathleen Lawrence • NYC Department of Education • Division of Financial Operations • NCLB/SES Implementation • 65 Court Street, Room 1001 • Brooklyn, NY 11201
End of Year Reconciliation Process • Final certification ends July 21 • Rejected entries to be corrected and resubmitted by July 24 • File will be processed by July 31 • This will be your final chance to correct 2007-08 attendance
Certification and Final Payments • Last formal certification period: July 14, 2008 – July 21, 2008 • ALL ATTENDANCE MUST BE CERTIFIED AT THIS TIME. THE SYSTEM WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT 12:01AM July 22. • Final payment will be contingent on satisfactory submission of data for annual report, any outstanding documents: signed assurances, copies of student plans and/or attendance/progress reports, and where applicable, payment of all outstanding fingerprinting fees • Payment will be withheld until all required documents have been submitted
Reminders • For 2008-09, organization chart with names and positions of SES employees should be submitted to our office. • PETS Process All personnel associated with SES are subject to background checks and fingerprinting • All attendance must be entered/submitted on monthly basis to NCLB prior to certification • Signed copies of the SES student plans will have to be submitted prior to the first payment
Incentives Policy • The Contractor shall not offer any rewards, gifts, and/or incentives to students for any reason whatsoever pertaining to services rendered under this Agreement unless said rewards, gifts and/or incentives is part of Contractor’s State approved program. • Before Contractor can offer any rewards to students pursuant to their State approved program, Contractor must submit a written description of the source of funding used to pay for any proposed incentives as well as a description of the type of incentives proposed to the Board for review. • Failure to submit written description will result in the withholding of payment and/or termination of this Agreement. • If at any time during the Term of this Agreement, the State enacts legislation or NYSED promulgates rules and/or regulations or sets policy which specifically allow for performance related rewards, gifts and/or incentives, Contractor will remain obligated to (1) submit a written description to the Board before implementing any rewards program; (2) update the Board if said program is changed for any reason; and (3) comply with the State law and/or rule/regulation and/or policy. • Contractor’s failure to submit written description and/or update will result in the withholding of payment and/or termination of this Agreement.
SES 2008-09 • SES Policy & Implementation Manual to guide the work of providers, principals, parent coordinators & Integrated Service Centers will be updated • Orientation for SES 2008-09 will be conducted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 • More rigorous monitoring and review of programs • Overview of enhanced NCLB database
Overview of new application • Access through DOE Vendor Portal • User management; allow/restrict access to parts of the application • Easier upload function, (text file instead of XML) • Groups/Location/Instructor set-up in upload • Online validation on uploaded file • Option to correct (some) errors • Option to only certify/invoice when all records are accepted
Download format • The download function will provide a list of all students who have enrolled with the provider. • After first upload of attendance, the attendance groups, instructors, and locations are stored and returned on next download. • As of second upload, only attendance date, begin time and end time need to be entered.
Upload of attendance • Upload will be on-line real time • Edit or delete the error records • Batch must be without error to proceed to next step • Submit Batch, to creates the invoice number • Certify invoices will cue the invoice for payment
Planning for implementation • Invitations to start testing in July • As of August 4th each day 10 providers will be added to the list. • A successful test for every provider before go live by the end of September.
OUR NEW URL: • http://schools.nyc.gov/RulesPolicies/NCLB/default.htm