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School district boundary review due by Oct. 14
From the Commissioner’s Monday Message to Superintendents:
The National Center for Education Statistics sponsors the School District Review Program (SDRP), which enables the U.S. Census Bureau to create poverty and population estimates by school district geography. The poverty and population estimates produced by the Census Bureau are important for each state’s allocation under Title I, Part A.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) must submit changes to school district boundaries to the Census Bureau. The information KDE submits must reflect the 2020 school districts as they will exist on Jan. 1.
To review your district’s boundaries, use the TIGERweb application on the Census Bureau website. There are 10 types of school district boundary changes. If your district has undergone any of the 10 types of boundary changes, email Margalee Conlee by Oct. 14. Include “SDRP” in the subject line of the email.
Supplement not supplant
This is a reminder that for local education agencies (LEA) to demonstrate compliance with the Title I supplement-not-supplant requirement, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) now requires an LEA to show that the methodology used to allocate state and local funds to its schools ensures that each Title I school receives all of the state and local funds it would otherwise receive if it were not receiving Title I funds. (ESEA section 1118(b)(2)).
The July webinar for Title I coordinators and accompanying PowerPoint slides provide guidance on Kentucky’s requirements for the methodology. The “Supplement Not Supplant” non-regulatory informational document released by the U.S. Department of Education in June goes into further detail, including the instances in which LEAs would be exempt from having a methodology in whole or in part.
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