| Funding Source: |
Federal |
New York
State |
NYC Bd. of
Ed. |
| Legislative
authorization: |
Title VI of
ESEA 10/98 & 10/99 budget language. Congress rejects Clinton’s
7-yr. $12.4 B phase-in, so funding must be negotiated each year. |
Chapter 436,
Laws of 1997. 8/97 state budget agreement; part of LADDER program.
Total cost of 3-yr. phase-in negotiated each year. $440 M. But funding
has been negotiated each year. |
No city funds
for personnel costs, but city must provide classroom (City Council
$6.5 M for new kindergarten funding sheet.) teachers not included
in this fact sheet.) |
| 99-00
school yr.: |
$1.1 B for nation.
$104.5 M to NYS. $61.3 M to NYC. |
$75 M for all
districts. $49.2 to NYC. |
$110.52 M allocated.
30% of k-3 students and 530 schools out of 675 have benefited. A
total of 905 new classes in grades k-3 have been
formed. |
| 00-01
school yr.: |
$1.2 B for nation.
$113.27 M to NYS. |
$140 M - all
districts. |
Estimates are
$66 M fed. & $88 M state for a total of $154 M. |
| 01-02
school yr.: |
$1.6 B for nation.
$141 M to NYS. $82 M for NYC. |
$225 M - all
districts, will be part of this year’s state budget negotiations. |
Estimate is
$82 M +. Amount to be determined in state budget negotiations.
|
| Teacher
training, testing, & recruitment: |
15% of funds
can be used for teacher training. As of 9/00, 25% fed. funds
for recruiting, testing & hiring teachers. |
Not an allowable
expenditure. |
BOE has used
maximum allowable fed. funds for staff development & will use
future fed. funds for recruiting & hiring. |
| Costs
of newly created classes: |
Not an allowable
expenditure. Only salaries & staff development. |
$10,000 per
new class can be used for supplies& added facilities costs (not
new construction). |
BOE has used
only $2.6 million for this purpose. |
| Priorities: |
School district
allocations similar to Title 1. No priority for schools schools
receive funding first. a district. |
High-needs districts.
receive priority. Within districts, low-achieving schools receive
funding first. |
Uses state funds
for low-achieving schools & fed. funds for all schools. |
| Floating
teachers: |
Teachers can
be hired to work with one or more classes. All teachers must be
fully certified. |
Not an allowable
expenditure. New classes must be formed so as to lower average class
sizes to 20 students. |
BOE has hired
550 floating teachers mostly in schools with overcrowding. |
| Grades: |
1-3 a priority,
then grades K, & 4-8. Next year, priority is k-3 and then higher
grades. |
K-3, but 10%
of funding can be used for grades 4 & up. In SURR schools, 68
new from 4-6 (not included in of 905 cited above). |
BOE policy is
to begin reductions in k & 1, but some schools total have begun
at 3, contrary to best practices. |
| Objective: |
Classes at an
average of 18 students. State objectives may be substituted for
this standard. fed. |
Classes at an
average of 20 students. |
BOE has substituted
the goal of 20 students instead of meeting goal. |
| Private
schools: |
Nonprofit, private
school staff can join public school teacher training sessions. |
Not an allowable
expenditure. |
Complies with
federal requirements. |
| Administrative
costs: |
3% of funds
can be used for administering program. |
Not an allowable
expenditure. |
BOE has used
maximum allowable fed. funds for administration. |
| Maintenance
of effort: |
Federal funds
must not supplant state or local funds. |
State funds
must not supplant school district funds. |
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