Advance for succeeding fiscal year

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Advance for succeeding fiscal year $508,639 Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants provide formula grants to State educational agencies (SEAs), which subgrant most funds to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support activities designed to increase student achievement by improving the effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other school leaders; increase the number of teachers, principals, and other school leaders who are effective in improving student academic achievement in schools; provide low- income and minority students greater access to effective teachers, principals, and other school leaders; and reduce class size. SEAs and LEAs have flexibility to carry out a wide variety of Funds are distributed to States by a formula that uses the number of children aged 5 to 17 and the number of children aged 5 to 17 from families living in poverty. For the past two decades a "hold harmless" provision took into account the amount of money received under two antecedent programs, but the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) established a multi-year phase-out of this provision by fiscal year 2022. Fiscal year 2023 was the first year in which all appropriated funds are to be allocated strictly by the formula, which is weighted 80 percent for children from low-income backgrounds and 20 percent according to States' relative shares of the population aged 5 to 17. The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) in the Department of the Interior and the Outlying Areas each receive one-half of one percent of the appropriation. The Department may reserve up to one-half of one percent of funding for evaluation. Each State must reserve at least 95 percent of its funds for subgrants to LEAs and may use up to one percent for administration and the remainder for State-level activities. The statute further authorizes States to reserve up to an additional three percent of the amount otherwise reserved for subgrants to LEAs for a range of State-level activities aimed at improving the effectiveness of principals and other school leaders. 1 The GEPA extension expired September 30, 2021.

Extracted from School Improvement Programs, p. 60. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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