School Business – August Updates
FY 2022-23 Initial Allotments
All LEA and Charter School Initial Allotments have been posted.
We will continue our processing with the Virtual Charters and NCVPS early next week. Then we will move into the approved Carryforward (See item below) and other specific allotment categories. We will keep you posted as we progress. We will have supplemental information posted to the website after we complete our initial allocation processing.
If you have any questions, please contact Kristie Weber at Kristie.weber@dpi.nc.gov. Thank you for your patience and support.
July 2022 Data Files Due TODAY
This is a reminder that July 2022 (FY2023) Financial and MFR data files need to be built and available to DPI no later than 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.
For LEAs using the LINQ software, once the month is closed your data will be created and sent to LINQ for submission to DPI. Should any LINQ LEA encounter problems with the monthly closing, please contact the LINQ HELP Desk.
DPI will begin processing data files first thing on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Please make every effort to create the data files on the due date. We also ask that you please make certain there is someone on-site on August 3, 2022 to answer any data-related questions DPI may have. Also, this is a reminder to send us any change of contact information.
If this reminder needs to be sent to others in your district, please forward this message to them and Roxane.Bernard@dpi.nc.gov.
From Federal Programs
Federal Programs presented at the FBS Summer Conference on federal funding sources, procedures and monitoring for Consolidated and ESSER funds. The PDF of the presentation is provided as a resource.
Finance Officers wishing to begin receiving the Federal Programs weekly listserv, please email Grace.Velez-Diaz@dpi.nc.gov and request to be added.
From Exceptional Children
IMPORTANT: Funding Study Survey
On Friday, July 22nd, you received a notice in the School Business newsletter from the Office of Exceptional Children with information regarding the funding studying being conducted by Research Triangle Institute (RTI International). Please review that communication from our office for the full impact of this study. RTI would like feedback from local EC directors and finance officers and have provided the following link to the survey. This survey will be open until COB on August 9th. Thank you in advance for making time to complete this most important survey.
OCR/CRDC - SY2022-2023 - CRDC Contacts in EDDIE
Dear Coordinators,
Please share with other staff as appropriate. Read this message carefully.
The Office of Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) will be conducted in the 2022-2023 school year. Data for the collection is from the previous year (School Year 2021-2022).
To date, the Federal government has not published an official start date. The NCDPI will notify PSUs once an announcement has been made.
Note: PSUs which were not open in the school year 2021-2022 are not required to participate in this collection.
CRDC Contacts in EDDIE
This week, NCDPI will make the following updates to the EDDIE system to prepare for communications regarding the coming collection:
· All past Office of Civil Rights Coordinator contacts have been deleted from the EDDIE system.
· The EDDIE Staff Role name has been updated from ‘Office of Civil Rights Coordinator’ to ‘CRDC Coordinator’.
· PSUs may record up to two CRDC Coordinator staff roles only.
Beginning August 8, 2022, please record two staff members who have been identified as the CRDC Coordinator. These staff will be the technical contacts for the CRDC.
PSUs are also strongly advised to verify or update the Student Information Coordinator contact in the EDDIE system.
CRDC Coordinator Responsibilities:
1. Serve as the technical contacts
2. Review data collected by NCDPI on behalf of the PSUs before the federal submission
3. Add and correct data in the CRDC Federal Submission Tool
4. Certify the data collection in the CRDC Federal Submission Tool
Instructions for creating Staff Entries (Roles) in EDDIE are in the Help Using EDDIE section of the NCDPI website.
Please contact Terra Dominguez at terra.dominguez@dpi.nc.gov with any questions you may have.
The NC Digital Learning & Media Inventory (DLMI) is due Sep 30, 2022.
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All PSUs (LEA, Charter, Lab, Regional) must complete the DLMI annually.
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Remember that this data feeds into the NC School Report Card, the Office of Civil Rights Report, and the new Digital Dashboard required by legislation.
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For your data to be on this year’s School Report Card, it MUST be input into the DLMI system by the Sept 30 deadline because we must submit the SRC data the following week.
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Charter, Regional, Lab schools must complete the PSU level as well as the School level, therefore need to request PSU admin access.
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Please see the 2022 NCDLMI Training Deck for directions and links.
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Contact your regional consultant for further assistance.
COVID Updates
The StrongSchools NC Public Health Toolkit was sunsetted on June 23, 2022. Please see the updated guidance linked here: https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/media/164/open.
As such, schools are no longer are required to vote monthly re: masking policy. Regarding covid quarantines – those should be treated as excused absences like any other physical illness. You are not required to provide remote learning during a quarantine. If your school decides to provide some type of remote learning during quarantines of individual students, that is your individual school’s decision. The policy should be the same as any other time a student is out for illness, such as the flu or chicken pox. In most cases, schools will communicate with the student and send work home/online assignments to keep up with the curriculum rather than offering remote learning.
Important MEMOs:
MEMO: 2022–23 Annual Testing Program and Accountability Requirements
Thoroughly read the linked memo, 2022–23 Annual Testing Program and Accountability Requirements, from Dr. Michael Maher and Dr. Tammy Howard.
New NCEES Information and Resources Site
The North Carolina Educator Evaluation System has a new public site, https://bit.ly/ncees-resources.
This site houses NCEES information and resources to support all educator evaluations in North Carolina. If you cannot find the resource(s) you are searching for, please email: EducatorEffectiveness@dpi.nc.gov.
The NCEES Google Site was discontinued on June 30, 2022. Please bookmark the new site, https://bit.ly/ncees-resources, and share this information with your NCEES system users.
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EC ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Please review the attached EC Division communication updates and Guidance.
New DOE Guidance:
Office of Charter Schools (OCS) Updates
Planning Year 22-23 newsletter announcement and September registration for applicant schools:
Planning Year Calendar 2022-2023
The Office of Charter Schools is pleased to release the dates for the 2021-2022 Planning Year Professional Development calendar. All schools (boards and school leaders) in the Ready to Open process are required to attend five (5) planning year sessions as well as the New Charter Leaders Institute in June, 2022, as part of the successful completion of the Ready to Open and Planning Year process.
2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund NC Teacher of the Year Nomination Process
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund NC Teacher of the Year is recognized at the school, regional, and statewide levels. Individual public charter schools nominate a Teacher of the Year who participates in a selection process facilitated by the Office of Charter Schools at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Once the charter school nomination processes are completed, the teacher finalists vie as one of the state’s nine Regional Teachers of the Year. [The state is divided into eight geographical regions and NC Charter Schools are clustered together to form the ninth region of the state. The Charter School Teacher of the Year joins the Regional Teachers of the Year team as a finalist for the state Teacher of the Year]. This selection process is facilitated in each region by Regional Education Facilitators. If you need additional information please reach out to your Regional Educator Facilitator or Dr. Sonja Brown at Sonja.Brown@dpi.nc.gov Please remember to nominate your school's Teacher of the Year.
 The NC ACCESS Program is offering two amazing (and FREE) development opportunities for charter school leaders and teachers during the 2022-23 school year. Visit ncaccessprogram.com/learn for more information.
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Science of Reading (LETRS) Training for 200 teachers and 100 administrators. NC ACCESS is partnering with Lexia Learning to provide the same LETRS training that the state is offering to traditional public schools.
- The ACCESS Fellowship for 100 charter school leaders. To-date, this intensive development institute has only been available to NC ACCESS subgrantees. This year, it is open to all. Apply today!
NC ACCESS Aspiring Minority School Leaders Program
Are you looking for School Leaders?
The North Carolina Advancing Charter Collaboration and Excellence for Student Success (NC ACCESS) grant program in the Office of Charter Schools was excited to embark on the Aspiring Minority School Leaders Program in collaboration with Appalachian State University. The Aspiring Minority School Leaders Program was designed to recruit, support, and build a pipeline of minority school leaders prepared to meet the challenges of leading schools. North Carolina charter schools will benefit by having access to a cohort of school leaders of color and women who are exceptionally trained, ready to be part of innovative school reform initiatives, and ready to move into leadership positions with strengthened organizational and instructional leadership skills.
We are proud to announce that we have twelve completers from the program. All have a Master’s Degree and years of school-based experience. If you are actively looking to fill certified school leadership positions, please send your listing to Dr. Barbara O’Neal in the Office of Charter Schools at barbara.oneal@dpi.nc.gov. I will send your position notices to the program completers.
Note: This special effort to inform this group of twelve does not replace the normal process of sending open positions notices to the OCS Newsletter, please continue to send them your position notices. Questions, please feel free to contact me at the same email address.
Other Resources from DPI
Charter School Job Postings
Whom Should I Contact at the Office of Charter Schools?
OCS Main Number: (984) 236-2700 / Email: ocs@dpi.nc.gov
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