Apportionment Update

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Apportionment Update

• WASBO May 2007

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Topics

• Staff Ratio Changes
• ESA Staff
• Vocational Equipment Replacement
• 12E Salary Schedule
• Transportation
• To/From Accounting
• Special Education
• Technology Upgrades and Improvements
• 4th and 5th Grade Additional Days
• Math and Science Additional Days
• All Day Kindergarten
• PAS
• National Board Bonus
• Skill Center FTE
• Middle Junior High School Vocational

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Staff Ratio Changes

• Section 502 (3)
• Classified ratio currently funded at 16.67 /1,000
  student FTE (1 per 60)
• Legislature enhanced this to 16.95 / 1,000 or 1
  per 59.

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ESA Experience

• HB 1432
• Recognizes two years of non-school experience in
  reporting staff mix for Educational Staff
  Associates.
• Begins in the 2007-08 school year.
• Applies to Occupational therapists, Physical
  therapists, SLP, Audiologists, nurses, social
  workers, counselors and psychologists regulated
  under RCW 18.
• OPSI to develop/revise rules.
• Draft rules to be available ASAP after WASBO.
• Look for these on the SAFS main page.

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Equipment Funding

• Section 502(10)(e)
• Equipment allocation for Vocational 75 and Skill
  Center 125 continues for both years of the
  biennium.
• Bulletin B062-06 (June 2006) provides the
  following
• To be paid over ten month Sept-June in Revenue
  3100. Separate line on 1197 Report.
• These funds are not subject to indirect charges.

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12E Salary Schedule

• 12E Gone - Replaced by Schedule 2.
• Salary increase in addition to the 3.4 COLA are
  provided to some districts.
• CIS Increases to bring the lowest base salary
  amounts to 32,746. (total 4.3)
• Reduces grandfathered to 24 from 36.
• CAS Increases to bring the bottom of the range
  up to 54,405.
• CLS Increases to bring the bottom of the range
  up to 30,111.
• No directive to ensure that the increases in CAS
  and CLS is paid to staff. (provisions of I-732
  still apply to the 3.7 portion.)
• CIS are, of course, subject to salary compliance.

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Transportation

• SSB 5114
• Provides for OFM in consultation with OSPI to
  contract for development of two options for a
  student transportation funding methodology.
• OFM to report options to committees of the
  legislature by December 1, 2008.

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Transportation To/From

• Starting with the 2007-08 school year, school
  districts are required to account for To and
  From spending costs separately from other pupil
  transportation spending.
• Focus is defining the To/From as state funded
  transportation costs.
• Additional guidance to be developed and
  communicated as addendum to accounting manual
  late summer.
• Districts should continue to budget in program 99
  as always.

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Transportation Additional

• Section 505
• 12.5M annual for temporary assistance
• Funding to be based upon the findings and
  analysis from JLARCs study.
• Pivot Table is based upon JLARCs study.

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Special Education

• Section 507
• Reporting Categories will be broken out to 3 on
  the P-223H
• Ages birth through 2
• Ages 3-5 (Pre-K) and,
• Grades K-21.
• Aged 3-5(Pre-K) will be funded at 115.
• Special Education 12.7 threshold will be applied
  only to the K-21 population.
• The federal funds integration will be reduced to
  an average of 20 per student.

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Special Education Accounting

• The Washington State Excess Costs Methodology
  proposed by the OSPI Ad-Hoc committee was
  adopted.
• Effective date is September 1, 2007.
• Eliminates split coding to 01/21.
• Requires full program costs in Program 21.
• Pro-forma material available on our website on
  left side under Committees also under Budget
  Preparation.
• More materials to be posted ASAP after WASBO.
• WASBO session on Friday at 900
• in RL East Ballroom.

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Technology Upgrades and Improvements

• Section 513 (39)
• ONE-TIME funding based upon
• 3,000 for each elementary school.
• 6,000 for each middle school.
• 11,000 for each high school.
• Allocation method to be determined.
• Reliance upon schools identified in CSRS.

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PAS

• Section 516
• PAS funding increased to cover 11th and 12th
  graders.
• One-time funding for professional development and
  grants was not carried forward.
• OSPI will recover all funds generated by students
  that werent served. Recapture will be based on
  the data provided on Student Participation
  Reports through August 31, 2007. OSPI must
  report to legislature November 15th.
• Please complete your districts PAS reporting for
  this year.
• Session on PAS Friday from 1000 to 1050
• in YCC 400.

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4th and 5th Grade Additional Days

• Section 513 (6)
• Budget provides 2 additional days for all 4th and
  5th grade teachers.
• Budget language implies that calculation in to be
  based upon CIS units generated by 4th and 5th
  Grade FTE.
• Intended to be formula driven.
• Funding may be used for additional days as well
  as job-embedded forms of professional development.

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Math and Science Additional Days

• Section 513 (7)
• The budget provides funding based upon three
  additional professional development days for Math
  and Science teachers in middle and high school.
• Intended to be formula driven.
• OPSI to develop rules to determine the number of
  Math and Science Teachers.
• Funding may be used for additional days as well
  as job-embedded forms of professional
  development.
• Pivot table projections may not reflect final
  eligibility!

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Math and Science 11

• Section 513 (8)
• Provides funding based upon five additional days
  and 1,500 per teacher for 1 math and 1 science
  teacher in each middle school and high school.
• Intended to be formula driven.
• In order to generate an allocation a teacher must
  participate in specialized professional
  development that leads to implementation of
  mathematics and science course that add new
  rigor. . . .

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All Day Kindergarten

• Section 513 (14)
• Grant funding provided for voluntary all-day
  kindergarten programs.
• Funding is provided only for schools qualifying
  based upon high poverty and approved application.
• The funding generated is calculated using the BEA
  calculation and the additional ½ time FTE for
  student in the eligible programs.
• Proposed
• Separate FTE reporting on P-223.
• Separate revenue and expenditure coding for F-195
  and F-196 reporting.

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All Day Kindergarten

• Pivot table projections assume all eligible
  schools will apply.
• Many eligible schools do not currently provide
  all day Kindergarten
• DO NOT assume that the projected cut for FRPL
  will represent the actual threshold for final
  eligibility.

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National Board Bonus

• Section 513 (41)
• Bonus available for Certificated Instructional
  Staff with National Board Certification.
• Staff must be reported as teachers.
• Bonus increased to 5,000.
• Additional 5,000 bonus provided for teachers
  with instructional assignments in schools in
  which at least 70 of the students qualify for
  FRPL.
• Additional bonus must be adjusted for less than
  1.0 FTE in the school.
• To be paid in a lump-sum.

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Skill Center FTE

• SSB 5790
• Provision allows Skill Center students to be
  counted as a super FTE 1.6.
• Legislative language directs that OPSI shall
  develop procedures for determining the
  appropriate share between the resident high
  school and the skill center.
• Up to 1.0 FTE based upon enrolled hours at the
  High School.
• Up to 1.0 FTE based upon enrolled hours at the
  Skill Center.

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I-728 and Skill Center

• SSB 5790
• Directs that The OSPI shall ensure that monies
  generated by skill center students is returned to
  skill centers.
• The intention in the bill report and budget notes
  was that this would apply to the total I-728
  amount times student FTE in the skill center.
• OSPI would honor the intention - if legal advice
  supports our ability to do this.

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Middle and Junior High School Vocational

• Section 513(10) -- HB 1906
• Vocational Junior?
• 1,5000,000 Maximum for each year.
• Funding to be provided only to approved programs.
• It would appear that this is not subject to
  indirect limits of section 502.
• Proposed
• Separate FTE reporting on P-223.
• Separate revenue and expenditure coding for F-195
  and F-196 reporting.

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SAFS Systems Changes

• Current systems are being converted onto a
  web-based platform that will be accessed through
  the EDS portal.
• Systems will maintain current functionality with
  only minor enhancements.
• Once all systems are converted, tested, and
  implemented, additional enhancements will be made
  as funds are made available.
• Training and user documentation will be available
  prior to the release of the converted systems.
• We anticipate several systems will be ready to
  process 200708 school year data by September 1.
• WASBO Session on Thursday at 130-220
• in YCC100.