VEAG3235: 3235(30)

Partners with districts in supporting the cost of extended time outside of the standard teacher contract for specific types of activities in approved agricultural education programs.

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105 ILCS 5/2-3.80b

https://www.isbe.net/Documents/75ark.pdf

To support personal services costs of teachers’ time spent outside the collective bargaining agreement so as to expand and improve their ability to carry out activities impacting students based on the three circle model for agricultural education.

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Education Organizations;

Eligible applicants under this Subpart E shall be Illinois school districts and area vocational centers created pursuant to Section 10-22.31a of the School Code that employ full-time middle or secondary school teachers in a State approvable agricultural education program as defined by Section 75.210 or is an approvable middle school program.

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Formula Grants

Education

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School districts will submit an intent to apply application to ISBE which includes all information necessary for completing the formula calculations.

Once allocations have been determined, the eligible district must complete a budget application within ISBE's IWAS system

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Awards are approved via a modified Merit Based Review process within ISBE's IWAS system.

Applicants will have a minimum of 30 days from the date the applications are released to submit their intent to apply

Applications will be reviewed within 30 days of receipt

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Funding in each year is subject to appropriation and satisfactory progress of the school district in the previous grant year. An electronic mechanism will be provided for school districts to report hours of approved activities fulfilling the reporting and documentation requirements of the State Board. This mechanism will collect a report for school districts to determine the activity, hours and impact of the teacher's activities. This report will include, at a minimum, the school district and teachers' names, date and time of activity, a description of how the activity performed relates to the activities approved under the grant, number of hours spent on each activity, and the number of individuals impacted. This report must be submitted prior to approval of the subsequent fiscal year's grant budget approval.

Grantees must share (50%) the cost of the personal services unless it is a new program in the first four years of existence in which case the grant pays 100% of these extended personal services cost in years one and two and 80% in years three and four.

To be used in cost partnership with districts to support 400 hours of personal services costs (extended time) of instructors in approved agricultural education programs.

Expenditure reports to be submitted on quarterly basis via IWAS. Programmatic reports are submitted on semiannual basis via IWAS. Final programmatic report due 30 days after completion of grant period. Final report, expenditure report, review/monitoring and/or audit as necessary; records kept according to generally accepted accounting principles and per grant administration guidelines.

The audit requirements adopted by GATA include the adoption of the federal audit requirements (2 CFR 200.501), audit requirements for grantees and subrecipients that do not meet the federal audit requirements and audit requirements for “For Profit” subrecipients. For-profit Subrecipient. The PTE(s) is responsible for ensuring subrecipient compliance with established requirements. Methods to ensure compliance for State and federal awards to for profit subrecipients may include pre-award audits, monitoring during the agreement period of performance, and post-award audits. See also 2 CFR 200.331 Requirements for Pass-through Entities. https://gata.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/gata/documents/audit/GATA-Audit-Requirements.pdf; https://gata.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/gata/documents/resource-library/Audit-Report-Review-Process-Grantee-Instruction-Manual.pdf.

Financial records, supporting documents, statistical records, and all other awardee records pertinent to a State award shall be retained for 3 years after the date of submission of the final expenditure report or, for awards renewed quarterly or annually, after the date of the submission of the quarterly or annual financial report to the State agency.

001-58616-4400-38-00-01

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Program subject to Grant Accountability and Transparency Act, 30 ILCS 708/

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Illinois State Board of Education 100 North First Street Springfield IL 62777-0001

https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Ag-Grants.aspx

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10/22/2021

FY 2018 : $3,200,000
FY 2019 : $1,971,658
FY 2020 : $2,355,711
FY 2025 : $3,000,000