2023-2024 Program and Budget Handbook

Budget Terms

The budget terms on these pages are for the Title I programs. Check the Program Guidelines for additional information regarding these Budget Terms. Terms specific to English Learners (EL) expenditures may be found in Appendix A, Programs for English Learners Budget Process. Please contact your Regional Title I Coordinators at their contact numbers or the Federal and State Education Programs Office (213) 241-6990 if you have any questions. All salary expenditures from Title I have time and effort requirements.

Certificated

A. Teachers 1. Categorical Program Advisor (CPA) … during the regular school day (six hours), the duties performed must be direct services to the Title I Program. Direct services may include: Teaching/In-class intervention • Providing demonstration lessons • Conducting professional development activities, including the facilitation of effective instructional programs • Coordinating and providing parent and family engagement workshop activities to ensure effective parent and family engagement and the compliant functioning of the council and advisory committee. Ensuring parents are notified regarding parent and family engagement activities at the Region and District Levels. • Coordinating the identification of eligible students in a Targeted Assistance School Program • Conducting program/student evaluation activities •

Categorical program advisors (CPAs) are not assistant principals nor are they responsible for testing or English Learner Compliance requirements. These personnel should support the instructional and program needs of the Title I participants. Since MMED has required that all schools have an EL designee, it is the responsibility of the EL designee to perform the EL compliance requirements. Therefore, it would not be allowable for a Title I Coordinator that is 100% funded from Title I to perform these duties. CPAs must hold a teaching credential based on a bachelor’s degree, teacher preparation, and student teaching to develop, direct, implement or coordinate programs of professional development or curricular development at a school site. See CPA Job Description in the Instructional Support section for additional details. 2. CPA Differential Coordinating (C basis) …based on the UTLA contract Article IX, 3.5b, non-classroom teachers paid on the Preparation Salary Table (including but not limited to counselors, "in-house deans," coordinators and advisers) who either (1)

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