1. Maintenance of Effort Virginia Department of Education
Office of Program Administration and Accountability
Title I University
April 21, 2016

2. Learning Outcomes for Today’s Session Maintenance of Effort
The participant will be able to:
Define Maintenance of Effort
State the importance of meeting the Maintenance of Effort requirement
Locate and insert required Maintenance of Effort information into Title I, Part A, application for federal funds

3. What is Maintenance of Effort?
To ensure that the funds made available under Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) are used to provide services that are in addition to the regular services normally provided by a division for participating children, three fiscal requirements related to the expenditure of regular state and local funds must be met. The division must:
Maintain fiscal effort with state and local funds;
Provide services in its Title I schools with state and local funds that are at least comparable to services provided in its non- Title I schools; and
Use Title I, Part A, funds to supplement, not supplant regular non-federal funds.

4. What is Maintenance of Effort?
A division may receive its full allocation of Title I, Part A, funds for any fiscal year only if the state determines that the division maintained its fiscal effort in accordance with Section 9521 of ESEA.
A division must show that the local and state funds expended by the division for free public education in the preceding fiscal year were at least 90 percent of the local and state funds expended by the division in the second preceding fiscal year.

5. Failure to Meet Maintenance of Effort
If a division fails to meet the Maintenance of Effort requirement, the state must reduce the amount of funds allocated under the programs covered by the requirement in any fiscal year in the exact proportion by which the division failed to maintain effort.  
In certain circumstances, the U.S. Department of Education (USED) may waive the Maintenance of Effort requirement:
exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances, such as a natural disaster; or
a precipitous decline in the financial resources of the local educational agency.

6. ESEA Maintenance of Effort Calculation

7. State and Local Per Pupil Expenditures

8. Title I, Part A, Application Program Requirements Tab Section L

9. Reminder . . .
The Title I, Part A, application for federal funds will be released via Superintendent’s Memo in Spring The application is due on or before July 1, 2016.

10. Additional Information
USED non-regulatory guidance on Title I Fiscal Issues includes a section on Maintenance of Effort.

11. VDOE Contact Information: Title I, Part A
Lynn Sodat, Ph.D., Acting Director
Lynn.
Phone: (804)
Gabie Frazier, Title I Specialist
Phone: (804)
Shyla Vesitis, Title I Specialist
Phone: (804)

12. Questions?