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Uses of Title II, Part A Funds
Below is a sample list of allowable and unallowable activities to support program planning activities. ESSA defines professional development as activities that are sustained, intensive, collaborative, job-embedded, data-driven, personalized, or based on information from an evaluation and support system, and classroom- focused. Title II, Part A funds cannot be used to support stand alone, discreet professional development that does not connect to a larger school-wide or individualized plan.
Allowable Expenditures
- Salaries, stipends, or contractor/consultant fees for instructional coaches in public schools.
- Contractor/consultant fees for instructional coaches or professional development vendors/presenters in public and non-publicschools.
- Recruitment and retention initiatives such as signing bonuses, relocation costs, recruitment materials and travel expenses, salary differentials or incentive pay, certification or licensure costs, contracted search costs for public schools.
- Stipends and/or substitute costs to participate in professional development.
- Stipends allowed for non-public instructional personnel for after or before school, in summer and/or vacation time professional development.
- Stipends and/or substitute coverage that allows collaborative educator work, such as planning, peer observations, and professional development in public schools.
- Administrative costs for coordinating professional development programs for public and nonpublic schools.
- Administrative fees (may be negotiated) for third-party contractors on behalf of nonpublic schools.
- Conference fees, travel and hotel costs, meal reimbursements, and mileage reimbursements that adhere to LEA travel policies and/or state and federal guidelines for both nonpublic and public-school educational personnel.
- Program development costs for allowable Title IIA-funded programs, such as conducting a needs assessment, contracting with program developers, or administering and analyzing surveys in the public schools.
- Materials, supplies, and equipment* for use in professional development sessions that are reasonable and necessary to carry out development sessions in both the public and nonpublic schools; or for implementing PD aligned collaborative educator work in public schools. Salaries for effective class size reduction teachers in public schools.
Unallowable Expenditures
- Professional development that is stand-alone, one-day, or short-term workshops with no connection to a larger school-wide or individualized plan, with no job embedded component or initiative for both public and nonpublic school personnel.
- Benefits costs for non-public personnel.
- Any direct reimbursement to a nonpublic school.
- Food and refreshments, including working lunches, are not allowed.
- Materials and supplies that are not directly connected to professional development (e.g., individual teacher iPads that are used outside the scope of professional development environment, white boards for classroom use, software programs for students, copiers, computers, carts, and other miscellaneous electronic equipment, and professional library that is unrelated to any specific professional development).
- Development and furnishing of training rooms in nonpublic schools.
- Materials and supplies that are not secular, neutral and nonideological.
- Use of Title IIA funds for student direct instruction or supplies to students or parent workshop.