1. 2018 Federal Grant Programs Conference
Welcome
Welcome!
2018 Federal Grant Programs Conference
May 30, 2018
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2. Resource Allocation Strategy and Planning
Changes in DESE’s grants services
May 2018

3. Senior Associate Commissioner for Administration and Finance, DESE
Bill Bell
Bill Bell
Senior Associate Commissioner for Administration and Finance, DESE

4. Director, Resource Allocation Strategy and Planning, DESE
Matt Deninger
Matt Deninger
Director, Resource Allocation Strategy and Planning, DESE

5. Massachusetts’ goal is to prepare all students for success after high school.
Our college- and career-ready standards are at the core of this work.
To support standards-based learning, we believe that every student should engage:
with grade-appropriate text every day
with meaningful real-world problems every day
in scientific conversations using data every week
in a school environment that supports social-emotional learning, health, and safety
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6. ESE’s strategies to reach our goal
Strengthening standards, curriculum, instruction, and assessment
Promoting educator development
Supporting social-emotional learning, health, and safety
Turning around the lowest performing districts and schools
Enhancing resource allocation and data use
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7. School-Age and Retirement-Age Population Projections for MA 4% decrease versus 86% increase
Source: UMass Donahue Institute Population Estimates Program, 2015

8. Overall Enrollment Trend in MA Public Schools: 1970 -
953,748
Source: MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2018

9. Population in the US: “Go West (and South), Young Man”
61.7%
38.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017

10. Population in the US: People are moving to metro hubs
53 metropolitan hubs in the U.S. have over 1 million people
They account for 56% of the U.S. population
Since 2014, they account for 96.4% of U.S. population growth
Source: Brookings Institute analysis of Moody’s Analytics Data, 2018

11. Our charge: adapt, and do something about it
Enhancing resource allocation and data use
Focus on what we can control: do our very best to work within our fiscal constraints
Use data to spot opportunities to create efficiencies
Collaborate
Share bright spots / scale success

12. Evolution of Resource Allocation Strategy and Planning (RASP)
Movement toward a consolidated federal grants office
District
DESE Title I Office
DESE Title IIA Office
DESE Title III Office
DESE Special Ed Office
DESE CTE Office

13. Evolution of Resource Allocation Strategy and Planning (RASP)
Movement toward a consolidated federal grants office
RASP
District
DESE Title I Office
DESE Title IIA Office
DESE Title III Office
DESE Special Ed Office
DESE CTE Office

14. Improved DESE-LEA experience
Each district will have a dedicated liaison in RASP, who will help you with federal entitlement grants in FY19
Titles under ESSA
Special Education
Career Tech Education
Title I (FC 305) – Basic
IDEA (FC 240) – K12 entitlement
Perkins Secondary (FC 400)
Title IIA (FC 140) – Educators
IDEA (FC 262) – early childhood
Perkins Postsecondary (FC 401)
Title III (FC 180) – EL main
Title III (FC 184) – Summer EL
Title III (FC 186) – Immigrant
Title IV (FC 309) – Enrichment
Title V (FC 609) – Rural

15. Improved DESE-LEA experience
Move from specialists to generalists across all federal grant programs
Generalists have a caseload of districts that we follow for the life of the grant (from application review, approval, amendment, technical assistance to monitoring).
RASP will reach back to content experts for more complex inquiries

16. Improved DESE-LEA experience
The RASP Team
Simone Lynch
Deb Walker
Kathy Cross
Margie Roberts
Sue Mazzarella
Ellie Rounds-Bloom
Alex Lilley
Aneesh Sahni
Julia Foodman
Sarah Carleton
Beth O’Connell
Matthew Deninger
Russ Fleming

17. Improved DESE-LEA experience
RASP Contact Information
Website:
Hotline:

18. Director, Federal Grant Programs, DESE
Simone Lynch
Simone Lynch
Director, Federal Grant Programs, DESE

19. FY19 Federal entitlement grants
Consolidated ESSA Application (Titles I, IIA, III, IV)
Developing our knowledge base
Breakout sessions overview and logistics

20. 1. Consolidated ESSA Application
ESSA compels us to:
Consolidate the application process for Titles I, IIA, III, IV
Include only what’s absolutely necessary, in order to reduce burden
FY19 will feature a consolidated application
Coherence across the Titles
Flexing $$ between the Titles

21. 1. Consolidated ESSA Application
Logistics
Application will be ready to distribute shortly and before we know federal FY19 allocations
You’ll be paired with a RASP liaison
Applications will be due September 28th
Once approved by RASP, LEAs will submit budgets into EdGrants.

22. FY18 & FY19 statewide allocations ($M)

23. 2. Developing our knowledge base
Create a suite of 1-2 page Quick Reference Guides to support strategic, thoughtful, and appropriate implementation of federal grant programs.
Resources for directors in the field to organize grants funds
Resources for our ESE grant reviewers

24. 2. Developing our knowledge base
Quick Reference Guides: allowable v. unallowable costs
Title I, Part A – brand new!
Title II, Part A – updated
Title III, Part A – updated
Title IV, Part A – brand new!
IDEA main grant – brand new!
IDEA Early Childhood grant – coming soon!
Perkins Secondary – brand new!
Perkins Postsecondary – brand new!

25. The Council of Administrators of Compensatory Education
A few words from CACE
The Council of Administrators of Compensatory Education
A Massachusetts organization of local Title I administrators

26. WiFi: may Password: may 3. Breakout overview
Slides ed to registrants prior
10:10-2:50 breakout sessions
Salons A-E
Princess Room
14 discrete sessions
FY19 Grant application overviews (Title I, IIA, III, IV)
Program-specific topics (Titles I, IIA, III, IV)
Cross-cutting ESSA topics
Working in EdGrants
Certain sessions offered once
4 breakout sessions include district presenters
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27. 3. Schedule for the day – Enjoy!
Morning refreshments available
12:00-12:50: Lunch on your own
Session 3 begins promptly at 1:00p
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28. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Questions
Whenever you have a question, please pull a RASP member aside and ask us!
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

29. 2018 Federal Grant Programs Conference
Thank You
Thank you!
2018 Federal Grant Programs Conference
May 30, 2018
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