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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 activities based on identified needs. 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. 9 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION STATE GRANTS In making subgrants to LEAs, 20 percent of allocations are based on LEAs' share of children aged 5 through 17 and 80 percent on the LEAs' share of children aged 5 through 17 from low- income backgrounds. The reauthorization also provided greater flexibility for States and districts in how they use Title II-A funds, by expanding the option to transfer funds to other ESEA programs. States may use their State-level funds for a variety of activities, including the reform of teacher, principal, and other school leader certification and licensing; helping LEAs design and implement teacher, principal, or other school leader evaluation and support systems that are based in part on evidence of student academic achievement; improving equitable access to effective teachers; creating or improving alternative routes to certification; technical assistance to LEAs; improving professional development; improving State reciprocity of teacher and principal certification or licensing; reforming or improving teacher and principal preparation programs; and training teachers on the appropriate use of student data. LEAs may use funds to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive programs and activities to improve teacher and school leader effectiveness, including evaluation and support systems; implement initiatives to assist in recruiting, hiring, and retaining effective teachers, especially in low-income schools; promote teacher leadership; recruit qualified individuals from other fields; reduce class size; provide high-quality, personalized professional development; and develop feedback mechanisms to improve school working conditions. SEI State Grants is a forward-funded program that includes advance appropriations. A portion of funds becomes available for obligation on July 1 of the fiscal year in which they are appropriated and remains available for 15 months, through September 30 of the following year. The remaining funds become available on October 1 of the fiscal year following the year of appropriation and remain available for 12 months, expiring at the same time as the forward-funded portion.

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

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3 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Confidence mix · 3 medium

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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