2023-2024 Program and Budget Handbook

Program and Budget Guidelines ✔ - Budget Guideline is applicable to the program ✖ -Not Allowed size, schools must maintain the number of norm teachers that was allocated to the school in order to purchase a CSR teacher with Title I funds. The minimum allowable when funding CSR teachers with Title I resources is 0.2 FTE (1 day). If funding more time than 0.2 FTE, additional time may be purchased in the following recommended increments: 0.40, 0.50, 0.60, 0.80, 1.0. These increments are recommended to facilitate allocation of substitute days. Although 0.5 is not an increment of 0.2, it is allowed because it is considered one half of a position. The appropriate time reporting documentation is required. 23. Day to Day Substitute Benefited Absence: A maximum of four (4) days of Day-to-Day Substitute Benefited Absence (Budget Item #10562) must be budgeted in Title I to cover the benefited absence of register carrying/class-size reduction (CSR) teachers purchased from Title I. Per the General Fund Manual, “if the register -carrying teacher is fully funded with specially-funded programs (e.g., Title I), the District allocates 6 substitute days after norm day”. This means that Title I will pay for 4 of the 10 substitute days of a register-carrying teacher and the District will pay for the other 6 days. When funding less than 1.0 FTE, the number of days should be equivalent to the percentage/number of the position that is purchased (prorated based on the full-time equivalency). This means that if the school is only using Title I funds to pay for ½ of the position, then 2 days will need to be budgeted from Title I for the benefited absences. Reporting Illness/Non-Illness time for Title I CSR teachers: Time Reporters must use the respective program code when time reporting the day-to day substitute replacing the funded register-carrying/CSR teacher for a benefited absence, i.e., illness, personal necessity, kin-care. Unused days may be repurposed in the second semester for use during the current fiscal year if the position is unfilled and will continue to be unfilled for the rest of the year. A budget adjustment request, complete with School Site Council date of approval and Regional reviewer signatures, must be submitted. Absence for the fifth day forward should be time reported from program 13027 (see General Fund School Programs Manual). 24. English Learner (EL) Instructional Coach: This position is created to address the linguistic and academic needs of English Learners. This

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