1. Consolidation of Funds What is it? & Why Would You Participate?
Audra Saunders
Director of Curriculum & Accountability
Cartersville City Schools
Shaun Owen
Director of Consolidated Federal Initiatives
Georgia Department of Education

2. What is Consolidation of Funds?

3. Why Consolidate?
LOCAL CONTROL
&
FLEXIBILITY

4. Flexibility:
Once state, local and federal funds are consolidated, the federal funds lose their identity as federal funds, and expenditures of those funds are no longer limited to the federal requirements for the individual programs.

5. Principals make spending decisions based on identified student needs at their school

6. Principals can change decisions as needs change or new data becomes available

7. No longer have to figure out which budget can pay - everything is paid from one CONSOLIDATED budget

8. Individual districts decide:
Which program(s) to consolidate
How much money to consolidate
Internal procedures & monitoring

9. You Don’t Have to be a Charter System, to Consolidate but…
The Charter System Foundation, Inc. was founded on the belief that meaningful change in education can occur only if principals, teachers, parents, and community partners are empowered with the authority and flexibility to make decisions at the school house level to best meet the individual needs of each student.

10. Calhoun City*
Cartersville City*
Foothills Charter HS*
Madison County*
Atlanta Public*
Dougherty County*
Long County
Marietta City*
Mitchell County
Bryan County
Clarke County*
Coweta County
Effingham County
Fulton County*
Gainesville City*
Lamar County
Muscogee County
Richmond County
Scintilla Charter HS*
Tattnall County
Walker County

11. Shift from COMPLIANT spending to spending based on STUDENT NEEDS

12. The money is CLOSER TO STUDENTS… because the people making spending decisions are closer to the students

13. Come to our 35 minute session tomorrow at 10:45 OR 11:25 Room R
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