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2020 Federal Performance Report – Required Actions*
| Topic Area | Required Action | Status as of April 2021 |
|---|---|---|
| Audit Requirements | Provide a template for a formal management decision letter the State will issue for subrecipient audit findings. | Resolved |
| Allocations | Provide an updated template for LEA grant award notices | Resolved |
| Supplement not Supplant (SNS) | Provide updated monitoring protocols for Tile I, Part A; Title II, Part A; and Title III, Part A. | Resolved |
| Equitable Services | Develop a plan and timeline detailing how the State will ensure full compliance with the consultation requirements. | Resolved |
| Indicators and Annual Meaningful Differentiation | Academic Achievement Indicator: Update the current methodology for calculating the Academic Achievement Indicator using a single statewide assessment (or assessments) for all students and subgroups and use those results to identify any schools for comprehensive support and improvement (CSI), additional targeted support and improvement (ATSI) and targeted support and improvement (TSI) that have not already been identified (Partially Resolved).
Four-year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR): The State must remove students with disabilities from the ACGR if the student achieved a high school diploma by meeting only the student’s IEP goals and objectives and not the State’s standards for a regular high school diploma and provide updated procedures for this calculation. Using the updated calculation procedures, calculate the Graduation Rate indicator and calculate its accountability system to identify schools for CSI, ATSI, and TSI that have not already been identified(Partially Resolved). Progress in Achieving English Language Proficiency: Update the State Companion Guide to reflect a growth calculation for English Learners (ELs) that utilized time as an EL instead of time in a district and request an amendment to the ESSA State Plan to ensure consistency with the Plan (Resolved). Inclusion of all Schools in Annual Meaningful Differentiation: Ensure schools with fewer than three academic indicators are included in the statewide system of annual meaningful differentiation (Partially Resolved). Consistency with NJDOE’s Approved State Plan: Ensure the State plan is consistent with internal practice and policies (Resolved). |
Partially Resolved |
| Support for School Improvement | The State must incorporate resource inequities into the Annual School Planning process for CSI or ATSI schools. | Resolved |
| 1003 School Improvement | The Department must update its ESEA section 1003 application to include a description of how LEAs will screen potential external partners, add a required assurance and add subrecipient monitoring protocol questions to the collaborative monitoring process. | Resolved |
| State and Local Report Cards | Report cards must be updated to include progress toward State-designed long-term goals; information of school improvement funds, exit criteria, data from the Civil Rights Data Collection, educator qualifications for out of field teachers. | Partially Resolved |
| Educational Stability for Students in Foster Care | The Department must develop a plan for: A) collaboration with State child welfare agencies; and B) the monitoring of LEAs using funds to transport students in foster care. | Partially Resolved |
| Other Title I Requirements - Educator Equity | The Department must develop a plan for evaluating and publicly reporting the progress of the SEA in ensuring that low-income and minority children in Title I, A schools are not served at disproportionate rates by ineffective, inexperienced, and out-of-field teachers. | Partially Resolved |
| Grants for State Assessments | The Department must provide evidence that it will begin to administer a single statewide assessment in mathematic in high school. | Partially Resolved |
| Title II, Part A | The Department must ensure that LEAs do not use Title II, Part A funds to hire or pay for teachers for the purposes of class size reduction unless the LEA has followed the appropriate procedures. | Resolved |
| Title III, Part A | The Department must establish and implement standardized entrance and exit procedures for English Learners (ELs). | Resolved |