2020 5550
Non-Instructional/Business Operations
SUBJECT: MAINTENANCE OF FISCAL EFFORT (TITLE I PROGRAMS)
As a Local Educational Agency (LEA), the District may receive its full allocation of Title I funds if its combined fiscal effort per student or the aggregate expenditures of state and local funds with respect to the provision of free public education in the District for the preceding fiscal year was not less than 90% of the combined fiscal effort per student or the aggregate expenditures for the second preceding fiscal year.
In determining the District’s compliance with the maintenance of effort requirement, the State Educational Agency (SEA) will consider its expenditures from state and local funds for free public education. These include expenditures for administration, instruction, attendance, health services, student transportation services, plant operation and maintenance, fixed charges, and net expenditures to cover deficits for food services and student body activities.
The SEA will not consider the following expenditures in determining the District’s compliance with the maintenance of effort requirements:
- Any expenditures for community services, capital outlay, and debt service;
- Any expenditures made from funds provided by the federal government for which the District is required to account to the federal government directly or through the SEA.
The School Business Official will review, as part of the budgeting process, this combined fiscal effort to ensure compliance.
- Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015
- 34 CFR Part 200
Adopted: 8/24/11
Revised: 9/22/20