Amsterdam City School District Finance/Budget Committee

Federal & State Grants Overview

Amsterdam City School District

Finance/Budget Committee

Federal Grants

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Title I

$ 1,411,009

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Title II

$ 214,043

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Title III

$ 18,549

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Title VI

$ 75,741

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SUNY Binghamton

$ 399,476

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Section 611

$ 879,928

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Section 619

$ 54,490

State and Local Grants

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Clinically Rich Teacher $ 15,000

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Smart Scholars

$ 346,403 (over 2 years)

Math & Science

$ 7,335

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Universal Pre-K

$ 478,403

Teachers of Tomorrow $ 83,700

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Systemic Turnaround $ 240,000 (over 2 years)

State and Local Grants Continued

 Project Aspire

 Department of Criminal Justice

 NASA, Time Warner and JC Penney Robotics  Cyberbullying

Grant detail by category

 Professional Salaries $1,341,080  Mentor Coordinator 1  Teacher mentors 6  Curriculum Coordinators/leaders 6

 Teachers 15.54

 Director/Admin 2.06  Support Staff $ 545,311

 Hall monitors 2

 Aides 32.27

Grant detail by category

 Purchase Services $ 461,314  Material & Supplies $ 86,406

 Travel $ 24,380

 BOCES services $ 2,000  Employee Benefits $ 789,200  Indirect Cost $ 71,224

Title I

IMPROVING THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED

Title I is a federally funded supplemental education program that provides financial assistance to local educational agencies to improve educational opportunities for educationally

deprived children. Title I programs are designed to help

children meet the state content and performance standards in reading, language arts, and mathematics. GASD uses some of the Title I funds to support a portion of salaries and benefits for Academic Intervention Service providers, a literacy

coach, and the Director and Secretary who support the grant. Funds are also used for AIS materials, professional development, tutoring, and parent programs. Title I.xlsx

Title IIA

Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting

This grant, a component of the No Child Left Behind Consolidated Application, focuses on professional

development of teachers and administrators to insure that all teachers are highly qualified and prepared for high quality instruction. Funding from this grant supports a Literacy Coach at the middle school, the new teacher mentor

program staff members (required by NYSED), curriculum leaders, a portion of the Director and clerical staff salaries, presenters, conferences and pay for staff development

beyond the school day for teachers and administrators. A

portion of these funds is also set aside for St. Mary’s Institute as required by NYSED. Title IIA.xlsx

Title III

Limited English Proficient

Title III is a federally funded, supplemental program that concentrates on delivering language instruction programs to students who have a primary language other than English.

This program is designed to improve the education of limited English proficient (LEP) children and youths by helping them learn English and meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards. GASD uses most of these funds to support afterschool meetings of

English as a Second Language Teachers, salary and benefits for the Director and Secretary who support the grant, materials, translation services, and professional development. Title III LEP.xlsx

Title VI

Rural Schools

This program, established to support rural schools, is

designed to help districts that may lack the personnel and resources to compete effectively for Federal competitive grants and that often receive grant allocations in amounts that are too small to be effective in meeting their intended purposes. These grants can be used to carry out activities authorized under other specified Federal programs. GASD uses these funds to support safe school environments under Title IV, a no longer existent funding source designed to meet this specific purpose. Some district hall monitors and building aides are funded under Title VI. Title VI.xlsx

Section 611 and Section 619

Office of Special Education Programs, OSEP, through Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), provides formula grants to states to assist them in providing a free

appropriate public education in the least restrictive

environment for children with disabilities ages 3 through 21 (Part B, Sections 611 and 619).

Section 611.xlsx Section 619.xlsx

Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation

We are partners in two grants- one with SUNY Albany focusing on special education and another with Union

Graduate College focusing on math, science and technology. The focus of these programs is to have graduate level interns participate in rigorous internship experiences in our high

school and middle schools and in turn, for our staff members to participate in professional development to improve

instruction. Funding includes stipends for the hosting

teachers, funds for teachers and administrators to participate in professional development and some supplies and materials.

Smart Scholars

This grant is for the development and implementation of an Early College High School program in which students who would be the first generation in their family to attend

college, can earn at least 20 college credits while they are in high school. Students will attend school at the FMCC campus during their 11th _{and 12}th _{grade years. This grant funds}

staffing for the program, tuition, textbooks, tutoring, SATs, PSATs, college visits, and summer enrichment programs for these students. Smart Scholars.xlsx

Universal PreKindergarten

These funds are provided by the state to support instructional programs for children who turn 4 years old by December 1st

of the current school year. Two of the three PreK programs at GASD are funded out of the UPK grant. Districts are also required to partner with a selection of eligible area

programs. GASD currently has partnerships with

Math and Science Partnership

This grant is a partnership between several other local districts and Capital Region BOCES , with the Cohoes

School District serving as the lead agency. The focus of the grant is to train science teachers in grades 5 through 8 on Project-Based Learning and scientific inquiry. It is a three year grant and we are in the final year. Teachers participate in training through Cap region BOCES and with professors

from the College of St. Rose. Funding is used to pay teachers to attend training during the summer and for substitutes

Project Aspire

This program, through the College of St. Rose, does not include any direct funding to the district. St. Rose received funding to offer 6 of our middle and high school teachers the opportunity to participate in training regarding collaborative teaching for special education students, and best practices in instruction. Both the special education and content area

teachers (who are partners) participate in the training. This is a five-year program and the next phase involves some of our staff members becoming turnkey trainers.

Department of Criminal justice

Services

Building School and Community Capacity to Support Juvenile

Justice Involved Youth. The district is a partner in this grant that is managed through the City of Amsterdam. The program focuses on training school district staff members and

members of community agencies (police department,

probation department, community members, etc.) to better serve students who are involved with or at risk of being

involved with the juvenile justice system. The grant includes stipends for the participants to attend training beyond the school day. Training is provided from experts in the field from NYU and other organizations.

NASA, Time Warner and JC Penney

Robotics

These grants support the registration fees for our MS and HS teams’ participation in FIRST Robotics competitions. Funds are also used to support transportation, travel costs and

Systemic Supports for District and

School Turnaround

Amsterdam will receive $240,000 over the course of the next two years to move forward with the initiatives below.

 Build supportive district-level operating structures, and re-frame

district systems to both support schools in improving student academic performance and holding them accountable for needed gains in performance.

 Build the capacity of district and school leaders to co-design and

implement school turnaround plans that ensure dramatic gains in student academic performance through the effective implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), systems for teacher and leader effectiveness, and a cycle of data-driven instruction (DDI)/inquiry and action.

Also included is NYSSBA membership and intensive leadership supports.

Teachers of Tomorrow Grant

Funding is provided to provide a variety of incentives that encourage prospective teachers to teach in a school district that is experiencing a teacher shortage or subject area

shortage. School districts with SURR schools,

low-performing schools, or those schools experiencing teacher shortages and/or subject shortages are eligible to apply for funds. In Amsterdam, we have received the funding for the last 3 years for a total amount of over $100,000.

Binghamton University’s Teacher Leader Quality

Partnership (TLQP) MATH SMARTS

Binghamton’s MATH SMART TLQP project provides professional development to elementary and middle-school mathematics

teachers and aims to improve the learning and teaching of mathematics in New York State. This MATH SMART TLQP

project, a Title IIa federally funded project, is awarded $399,476

for Year 1, 2012-2013 and is funded for three years, from September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2015.

Binghamton University’s Graduate School of Education is the lead institution on the project, overseeing all pedagogy and grant

activities; Sage College in Albany is also our partner. The project also provides support for equity education and for teaching

English Language Learners. In addition, each partner receives subcontracted funds for reimbursing teachers for their time, providing supplies to classrooms, supporting travel to TLQP

Cyberbullying Hotline

These funds are provided to provide a cyberbullying hotline access as well as numerous other resources to 2 of our buildings. For the 2012-13 year, the grant funding will support Lynch Literacy

Academy & McNulty in the implementation of an anonymous

bullying reporting solution to help the schools reduce and prevent bullying and cyberbullying episodes.

The CyberBully Hotline solution provides a two-way

communications tool that allows students to instantly and directly send text messages -- or leave a voicemail -- anonymously with school officials. In response, those officials can immediately reply, also anonymously, and provide students the support they need to effectively address the offensive bullying act, whether they are witnessing it or on the receiving end of it.

Next meeting December 13, 2012