GUIDANCE FOR 2007-08

FUNDING

Title III CONSORTIA GRANTS

Consortia Application Process

Each member county Each member county individually completes individually completes components of their counties’ components of their counties’ 5 Year Strategic Plans5 Year Strategic Plans

Plus, a Memorandum of Plus, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Understanding (MOU) between member countiesbetween member counties

MOU ComponentsIdentify Consortium Lead (fiscal Identify Consortium Lead (fiscal agent)agent)

List member countiesList member countiesTotal # of LEP students (per Total # of LEP students (per county)county)

Total amount of awardTotal amount of award(see sample at: (see sample at: http://wvconnections.k12.wv.us/title3grants.html

Allocation ProcessState review of individual State review of individual plans and MOU agreementplans and MOU agreement

Allocations made to Allocations made to consortium Leadconsortium Lead

Lead county will be invoiced Lead county will be invoiced by member countiesby member counties

Process for Determining AMAOs

For accountability purposes, For accountability purposes, state will determine status on state will determine status on data aggregated at the data aggregated at the consortium levelconsortium level

For technical assistance For technical assistance purposes, state will also purposes, state will also determine status for each county determine status for each county membermember

Consortia Not Meeting AMAOs

State will notify each State will notify each consortia lead and member consortia lead and member counties that fail to make counties that fail to make AMAOsAMAOs

Consortia members that do Consortia members that do not make AMAOs will be not make AMAOs will be required to send appropriate required to send appropriate parent notificationsparent notifications

Accountability MeasuresMeasures for not meeting AMAOsYear 1 (and every year thereafter) –Consortia

members must notify parents of participating children of the consortium’s failure to meet AMAOs. However, individual district status (met AMAOs) may also be included in the letter.

Two Consecutive Years- The state will provide technical assistance to the consortium district that failed to make AMAOs to develop a plan that specifically address the factors that prevented the district from achieving the objectives

Four Consecutive Years – the state will require the district to modify the curriculum, ESL program, and method of instruction, or will determine if funding should continue and require the district to replace educational personnel.

Monitoring of ConsortiaUsing the Consolidated Monitoring Using the Consolidated Monitoring process, all consortia members will process, all consortia members will be monitored on an individual be monitored on an individual basis once every three yearsbasis once every three years

Consortia leads will also be Consortia leads will also be monitored through the regular monitored through the regular consolidated processconsolidated process

Other state governance for Other state governance for intermediate agencies (RESAs) intermediate agencies (RESAs) serving as fiscal agents is serving as fiscal agents is applicableapplicable

  RESA 6 Consortium 71

$ 175.00   $ 12,425.00 2 Barbour 3

$ 175.00 $ 525.00 29 Hancock 2

$ 175.00 $ 350.00 41 Lewis 7

$ 175.00 $ 1,225.00 47 Marion 4

$ 175.00 $ 700.00 ?? 48 Marshall 1

$ 175.00 $ 175.00 58 Morgan 11

$ 175.00 $ 1,925.00 64 Ohio 38

$ 175.00 $ 6,650.00 92 Wetzel 5

$ 175.00 $ 875.00   RESA 4 Consortium 69

$ 175.00   $ 12,075.00 8 Braxton 2

$ 175.00 $ 350.00  20 Fayette

16 $ 175.00 $ 2,800.00 24 Grant 12

$ 175.00 $ 2,100.00   Greenbrier 9

$ 175.00 $ 1,575.00 62 Nicholas 12

$ 175.00 $ 2,100.00 74 Raleigh 18

$ 175.00 $ 3,150.00 ?? 49 Mason 7

$ 175.00 $ 1,225.00 ?? 51 Mercer 12

$ 175.00 $ 2,100.00 ??

Questions?Each member county Each member county individually completes individually completes components of their counties’ components of their counties’ 5 Year Strategic Plans5 Year Strategic Plans

Plus, a Memorandum of Plus, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Understanding (MOU) between member countiesbetween member counties