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Private Schools, Public Funds: Providing Title I Services to Private School Children outlines the basic “equitable services” requirements for private school students established under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (now known as the No Child Left Behind Act). This includes a look back at the mandate’s 40-year history, how the level of funding must be calculated, the ins and outs of how to best conduct consultation between public and private school officials, how to determine which private school children are eligible, the kinds of allowable services, and related accountability expectations.
Failure to properly implement equitable services for private school children is perennially one of the top monitoring findings by the U.S. Department of Education. Private Schools, Public Funds: Providing Title I Services to Private School Children will help you avoid the pitfalls and ensure effective cooperation between public schools and private schools in delivering supplemental services to needy private school children. Private Schools, Public Funds: Providing Title I Services to Private School Children is available in both print and downloadable formats. |
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Education Compliance: Audits, Monitoring and Enforcement offers insight on the audit, monitoring and enforcement requirements associated with U.S. Department of Education grants. How often must grantees and subgrantees be audited? What enforcement actions can ED take if it concludes federal funds have been misspent? How can the recipient challenge those enforcement actions? How do enforcement actions against state educational agencies differ from actions against institutions of higher education? The book provides information on the audit process, ED’s expectations for subrecipient monitoring and a recipient’s options for appealing audit findings. Specifically, the book breaks down everything readers need to know about federal oversight, single audit requirements under OMB Circulars, requirements for subrecipient monitoring and enforcement options and requirements.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Education Compliance: Audits, Monitoring and Enforcement is available in both print and downloadable formats. |
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ED 101: Q&As for ESEA Program Administrators will answer numerous thorny questions school administrators will need to master in order to stay compliant with programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) – No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in its current iteration. Analyzing regulations, guidance and U.S. Department policy letters, the book explains the nuances administrators must understand in a dozen program areas.
ED 101: Q&A for ESEA Program Administrators, is intended to supplement the guidance by explaining the more difficult provisions and filling in gaps. In many cases, the Q&As we have assembled are derived from official ED monitoring reports or correspondence with real-world administrators like yourselves. Our Q&As are intended to give you access to official policy interpretations not readily available elsewhere. ED 101: Q&A for ESEA Program Administrators is available in both print |
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Making the Grade: A Primer on Title I Accountability and School Improvement offers an overview of No Child Left Behind’s accountability system, beginning with a look at the basic requirements for state accountability systems, including how states define school success or failure. It then moves into the practicalities of school improvement, corrective action and restructuring, as well as the innovative new options under NCLB: public school choice and supplemental educational services.
As school accountability targets ratchet up from year to year, more and more schools and school districts will face the need to master the intricacies of the NCLB accountability system. Making the Grade: A Primer on Title I Accountability and School Improvementprovides a handy overview of the school improvement process that is accessible for novices while providing veterans with the answers they need to make the most of the improvement process. Making the Grade: A Primer on Title I Accountability and School Improvement |
