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AGENDA

Key Term Background Legislative Authority Purpose Period of Performance Performance Work Statement (PWS) Tasks/Deliverables Questions/Comments Follow-Up

Key Term Local Educational Agency (LEA)

A public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State.

Background Under section 1120 of Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA), each participating LEA must provide Title I services to eligible private school children, their teachers, and their families. Theses services must be equitable to those provided by each LEA.

If an LEA is prohibited by law from providing equitable services or if the U.S. Secretary of Education determines that an LEA has substantially failed or is unwilling to provide such services to private school children, that LEA is “bypassed.” In such an instance, the Secretary makes arrangements to provide these services to eligible private school children, their teachers, as applicable, and their families through a contract with a third party provider.

Contract Funding Authority ESEA, Title I, Part A , Sections 1120(e) & 9504

Authorizes the Secretary to make arrangements for services and pay for the cost of those services, including the administrative costs of arranging for those services, from the appropriate allocation or allocations.

PURPOSE of these contracts To provide equitable services under Title I to eligible children attending private schools, their teachers, and their families in the 14 bypassed LEAs in Virginia.

To provide equitable services under Title I to eligible children attending private schools, their teachers, and their families in the 54 bypassed LEAs in Missouri.

Period of Performance The period of performance for this contract is twelve months from the date of award with four additional twelve-month option periods to be exercised at the discretion of the U.S. Department of Education based upon the availability of funding and satisfactory contractor performance.

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Key Term Background Legislative Authority Purpose Period of Performance

Overview of PWS The contractor must:

Provide private school participants with services that are supplementary, such as reading, mathematics, language arts, and other benefits on an equitable basis to those provided to public school students in each bypassed LEA.

Use program resources to help private school participants meet challenging content and student academic achievement standards expected for all children.

Coordinate with and support the education programs in the regular private school classrooms.

Provide instruction by teachers who are employees of the contactor and meet the State’s highly qualified teacher requirements.

Provide as applicable, private school teachers of participants an equitable opportunity to participate in professional development activities that provide these teachers with knowledge and skills to better meet the needs of their Title I children.

Provide strategies to afford parents of participants with meaningful opportunities to support the education of their children at home and at school.

Review on an ongoing basis and assess, at least annually, the progress of the Title I program toward meeting established academic goals and use the assessment data to modify the Title I program, as necessary.

Provide appropriate professional development activities to the Title I teachers and supervisors employed by the contractor to ensure that they gain the knowledge and skills required to provide quality, meaningful, and appropriate instruction to private school participants.

OVERVIEW OF pws tASKS Communicate with the Department.

Develop a Program Design Plan.

Provide annual audited financial statements for the contract.

Comply with annual reporting requirements.

Prepare monthly reports.

Task 1: COMMUNICATION Conduct a post-award meeting with the Department to discuss the contract’s Management and Program Design Plans and other issues related to the tasks and the overall contract.

Participate in periodic telephone calls with the Department to discuss the progress of the contract.

Task 2: Program Design Plan Overview The program design plan serves as the framework for providing equitable Title I services to eligible children attending private schools, their teachers, and their families in the bypassed LEAs. These services must be secular, neutral, and non-ideological.

The contractor must use this plan to ensure that eligible children attending private schools, their teachers, and their parents in the bypassed LEAs receive equitable Title I services as required under section 1120 of the ESEA for the period of performance for this contract.

Overview The contractor must provide an estimate of the amount of instructional, professional development, parental involvement, and administrative funds necessary to implement the equitable services requirement in each bypassed LEA for the following year.

The contractor shall make adjustments to the original Program Design Plan, on an annual basis, in response to (1) information gathered from the annual collection of data, (2) when LEAs are added or removed from bypass status, or (3) unforeseen circumstances which occur that impact the contract.

The Program Design Plan shall include information about:

Timely and meaningful consultation with appropriate private school officials.

Design, implementation, and evaluation of the Title I instructional programs.

Annual data collection.

Determination of equitable services, including determining funds generated for equitable services, student eligibility, allocation of funds, and delivery of services.

Implementation and evaluation of professional development of private school teachers of Title I participants.

Implementation and evaluation of parental involvement activities for parents of Title I participants.

Development of an annual assessment plan, establishment of academic standards and measurement of annual progress.

Title I teachers and supervisors employed by the contractor.

Student records and instructional materials.

Communication between contractor and private school personnel.

Instructions to staff employed by the contractor.

Instructional facilities and transportation.

Development of monitoring instrument and monitoring of Title I programs.

Complaint procedures.

Task 3: ANNUAL AUDITS The contractor must provide the Department annual audited financial statements for the contract conducted by an independent auditor.

Task 4: ANNUAL REPORTING The contractor shall prepare the following reports and/or plans on an annual basis:

Annual Assessment Plan Annual Evaluation of Services Report Program Data Report Annual Report of the Program Design Plan Final Expenditure Report Annual Statistical Report

Task 5: Monthly reports Monthly Progress Report Monthly Report on Management Plan Monthly Expenditure Report Monthly Voucher

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

Overview of PWS Tasks

Follow-up

SPECIAL CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS:

Student Records: Records of students who participated in the Title I program under the previous contract and the location of government owned property shall be provided to the new contractor.

The contractor shall compensate teachers including both salaries and benefits at a rate that shall be equal to and never greater than the prevailing teacher schedules for public school teachers with similar qualifications and experience in the LEA in which the program is located.

Follow-up

SPECIAL CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS:

Limitation on Instructional Activities:

All Title I services shall be provided by employees of the contractor, and not by personnel or representatives of the private schools. The contractor's employees shall be supervised by, and accountable to, only the contractor, and not any representative of the private schools.

The contractor shall not engage in team teaching or other cooperative instructional activities with private school personnel. The contractor shall not introduce religious matters into its teaching or involve itself in the religious activities of the private schools.

The contractor shall provide Title I services, materials, and equipment only to private school participants.

The contractor shall complete all tasks outlined unless notified otherwise by the COR.