‘Supplement, not supplant’ input promotes efficiency

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30238
• Date: 07 February 2019
• Published date: 07 February 2019

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‘Supplement, not supplant’

input promotes eciency

The Education Department (ED) recently

proposed nonregulatory guidance to support school

districts’ compliance with the requirement that

federal funds supplement, and do not supplant,

state and local funds, under Section 1118 of Title I,

Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education

Act (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student

Succeeds Act (ESSA). ED said the guidance was

developed to reduce the administrative burden

placed on schools, and to simplify the compliance

demonstration and promote effective spending.

“Schools need to spend resources on what’s best

for students, not what’s least likely to come up

in an audit,” said U.S. Education Secretary Betsy

DeVos in a statement. “Teachers and school leaders

consistently tell me the ever-growing paperwork

burden is one of the biggest impediments to focusing

on what really matters: the kids. This proposal does

not change the legal obligations school districts

have to make appropriate investments in education.

It simply makes clear that a school district has

signicant exibility in how it demonstrates

compliance with the law.”

While important and well-intentioned, the

supplement, not supplant requirement had become

restrictive and burdensome—to the point that some

school districts made ineffective spending choices

in an effort to avoid noncompliance, ED said in a

release.

Under ESSA, the supplement, not supplant

requirement changed to provide more exibility

to school districts while still ensuring that federal

dollars are supplemental to state and local funds

and cannot be used to replace them, said the

department. In order to comply, a school district

need only show that its methodology to allocate

state and local resources to schools does not take

into account a school’s Title I status, ED said, and

for many school districts, the requirement can be

met using the school district’s current methodology

for allocating state and local resources.

To learn more, visit https://www.ed.gov/news/

press-releases. ■

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Scope: The Education Department’s Office of

Postsecondary Education seeks applications for the

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Short-

Term Project announcement to promote, improve and

develop modern foreign languages and area studies at

varying levels of education.

Deadline: March 25, 2019.

Funds: $1 million total for up to 10 awards of up to

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Areas: ED said there are three types of GPA short-

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weeks in length designed to help integrate international

studies into an institution’s or school system’s general

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study, such as the culture of an area or country of study;

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Postsecondary Education seeks applications for the

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Long-Term

Project announcement to promote, improve and

develop modern foreign languages and area studies at

varying levels of education.

Deadline: March 25, 2019.

Funds: $1.65 million total for up to 15 awards of up to

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