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EOYR: COA updates and future directions

EOYR: COA updates and future directions. MASBO Annual Institute, May 16, 2018. 01. Project overview. 02. EOY18 changes. 03. EOY19 changes. CONTENTS. 04. Future directions. Project overview. 01. DESE has been collecting finance data for many years.

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EOYR: COA updates and future directions

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  1. EOYR: COA updates and future directions MASBO Annual Institute, May 16, 2018

  2. 01 Project overview 02 EOY18 changes 03 EOY19 changes CONTENTS 04 Future directions

  3. Project overview 01

  4. DESE has been collecting finance data for many years • For districts: how do we know we’re getting the best outcomes for kids in an efficient way? Compared to our peers? What resource allocation models work best? • For state and local policymakers: Are our investments making a difference? Are they sufficient? What does it cost to educate certain subgroups? • For the public: Are our tax dollars being invested well? Equitably? Efficiently? Compared to our neighbors?

  5. Our goal is to improve finance data by making it • More detailed – there are specific kinds of questions, of interest to district leaders and state policymakers, that cannot be fully answered using our current data set • More comparable – the clarity and detail of our current guidance on how to report on the EOYR varies across types of spending. Some parts are quite detailed, and others offer a lot more flexibility, which makes using the data to compare across districts challenging and of limited utility • More actionable - our current data is compliance-focused and has not been updated to reflect current education practices

  6. Based on internal discussions and collaboration with the field we have made these changes:

  7. EOY18 changes 02

  8. Curriculum directors and department heads Because the definitions were so similar, we are reducing the functions related to curriculum directors, department heads, and instructional coordinators from 4 to 2

  9. Classroom teachers • Classroom and Specialist Teachers are classified differently in the EOYR and in EPIMS • Districts interpret these functions in different ways • For all state purposes, these two functions are added together • In order to align and clarify reporting for teachers, we are consolidating reporting for all teachers in one category

  10. Substitutes • Only long term substitutes are collected in EPIMS • The EOYR tracks substitutes in one category (except for PD, see PD recommendation) • By tracking expenditures for long term substitutes separately, they can be aligned with EPIMS data and potentially factored into average teacher salaries

  11. Professional development We are removing 3 out of the 4 existing professional development functions and add 4 new function codes (see next slide)

  12. Professional development

  13. Grants reporting • Moving to state fiscal year reporting of ALL grant expenditures: July 1 to June 30 • First year will only capture 10 months of expenditures: September to June • Revenues will reflect payments made during this period

  14. EOY19 changes 03

  15. Technology function changes • Current format makes it difficult to draw conclusions about districts’ technology investments statewide • Districts are making different reporting choices within the functions we do collect, comparisons amongst districts cannot be made • Like professional development, districts’ technology needs have changed dramatically in the years since the COA was put in place.

  16. District level

  17. School level

  18. School level

  19. School level

  20. Future directions 04

  21. ESSA report card • We’re working to produce a useful report: • Based on our current school-level expenditure data collection on instructional spending • Incorporating other data that helps explain spending differences between schools • Data will be part of 2018 district and school report cards • Participating in Edunomics working group

  22. Possible future directions for EOYR reporting

  23. EOYR working group • Looking to form a working group to look at longer term reporting changes: • What we collect • How we collect it • Input on guidance documents

  24. EOYR workshops (9AM to 12PM)/RADAR workshops (12:30PM to 2:30 PM) • July 12: Shrewsbury High School • July 13: Plymouth South Middle School • July 16: Chicopee Comprehensive High School • July 17: Masconomet • August 9: Assabet Valley Regional Vocational Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

  25. THANK YOU Rob O’Donnell, Director of School Finance 781.338.6512 rodonnell@doe.mass.edu www.doe.mass.edu 75 Pleasant Street, Malden, MA 02148

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