CEP Title I The Data and What it Means 1
Objectives Define Directly Certified Students Recognize the data used to determine poverty levels of individual schools Determine how to use this data locally in educational programs 2
CEP Background Section 104a Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act Alternative to household applications Offers all students meals at NO Cost High poverty LEAs and schools 3
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What is CEP? A universal meal program, Community Eligibility Provision, permits eligible schools to provide meal service to all students at no charge, regardless of economic status. 5
What is CEP? Meal Counting and Claiming System DC as of April 1 st prior school year NO F&R Meal Applications All meals at no cost 4 Year Cycle Beginning year is 1st year of 4 6
Who is eligible to elect CEP? 40% Directly Certified w/o application Note: 40% threshold may be school by school group of schools entire LEA or 39.98% does NOT meet the threshold 7
Eligibility Criteria IDENTIFIED STUDENTS: SNAP or TANF students found on Statewide Lookup Extended Eligibles (students attached to SNAP and TANF households) Matched to Official Lists: Homeless Migrant Foster w/o App. Runaways Headstart Evenstart 8
Eligibility Criteria ENROLLED STUDENTS: Enrolled in a CEP participating school Attending a CEP school Has access to lunch or breakfast 9
Eligibility Criteria Identified Student Percentage (ISP) = Number of Identified Students for School A Number of Total Enrollment for School A Divide the sum of the identified students of a particular group by student enrollment for that particular group (entire district, a school or group of schools). Must be 40 % 10
Eligibility Criteria IDENTIFIED STUDENT PERCENTAGE: Achieved One of Three Ways An individual school A group of schools District wide for the LEA Note: not all schools in the group or in the LEA if electing for the entire LEA have to meet the 40% threshold. 11
CEP-ISP Determination Worksheet 12
Individual School Poverty Levels and School Nutrition Claiming Percentages are DIFFERENT 13
Title I E rate Fees & Testing CEP CEP and Others.. 14
CEP/Title I CEP ISP(Identified Student Participation) Determination Worksheet Part 2 Proportionality Scale used to provide annual DC numbers for Title I. These numbers allow for allocation funding to be generated annually. Information available on our website at: http://snp.wpgadoe.org/units/rtau/communityeligibility provision/ 15
Example Co. School Determination Worksheet 16
Example Co. School Determination WS Part 2 Title I 17
Title I Data Form 18
Title I Data Form 19
Title I and CEP 20
Title I and Accountability How does CEP affect Title I accountability? To meet some reporting and accountability requirements, an SEA or LEA must have data on individual economically disadvantaged students. 21
Title I and Accountability For example, each SEA and LEA that receives funding under Title I must assess and report annually on the extent to which the subgroup of economically disadvantaged students is making progress toward meeting the State s academic achievement standards in reading/language arts, mathematics, and science. Moreover, an LEA must hold schools accountable for the achievement of this subgroup, whether under section 1115 of the ESEA as amended by ESSA. For most LEAs, NSLP data, including CEP data, may be the best source to identify individual economically disadvantaged students. 22
Title I and Accountability How may economically disadvantaged students in a CEP school be identified for accountability? Although for NSLP purposes a CEP school may maintain the same reimbursement rate over four years and therefore would not need to update its direct certification count, an SEA may wish its LEAs to use the most recently available direct certification data for other purposes, such as Title I. One such Title I purpose is the disaggregation of assessment data by the economically disadvantaged subgroup for reporting and accountability. 23
Title I and Accountability Finally, because CEP schools generally have higher poverty levels than other schools and consequently have a smaller number of students who would not be deemed economically disadvantaged if poverty data were available for each student in the school, an SEA may elect to base reporting and accountability on all students in a CEP school. In this case, the economically disadvantaged (ED) subgroup would be the same as the all students group and all students in the school would then be eligible for any services for which eligibility is based on poverty. In Georgia, ALL students attending a CEP school are flagged ED. 24
CEP and other Program FACTS CEP does not decrease or increase Title I district funding. Direct Certification percentages or ISP per school can affect Title I school s rankings, however. 25
CEP and other Program FACTS School poverty rankings affect Title I school allocations. School Nutrition Leaders and Title I Directors, must collaborate E rate now uses Free Claiming Percentages for calculating funding 26
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