CONTACT PERSON

NAME:

Betty Applewhite

Kwaku Frempon

PHONE:

850/487-3530

SUNCOM:

277-3530

FAX:

850/922-9648

E-MAIL:

Betty.Applewhite@FLDOE.ORG

Kwaku.Frempon@FLDOE.ORG

MEMORANDUM

TO:

District School Superintendents

FROM:

Kathy Mizereck

Deputy Chancellor for Student Achievement

and Articulation

DATE:

October 2, 2002

SUBJECT:

COMPARABILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TITLE I

PROGRAMS

Public Law 107-110 requires that any district receiving Title I funds must

provide services to project schools which are comparable to those provided

to non-project schools in that district. Comparable services to project

schools must be funded from non-federal sources.

A district may select one of three options for meeting comparability

requirements.

Option One:

This option involves filing a written assurance and collecting and

maintaining evidence of the establishment and implementation of a district-

wide salary schedule and required policies, utilizing the ESE-404 forms

attached to the memorandum. Districts selecting Option One shall

complete and submit forms A-1, A-2, C, the options page (DOE page 13 of

13) and documentation to verify expenditures for the implementation of

policies for district-wide salary schedules, equivalence among schools in

staff and equivalence among schools for curriculum materials and

instructional supplies to demonstrate compliance with comparability

requirements.

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Option Two:

This option allows the district to compare the average number of students per instructional

staff in each project school to the average in non-project schools in the district; a 10%

variance is allowed. Districts selecting Option Two shall complete and submit forms A-1, A-2,

and C in the attached packet to demonstrate compliance with comparability requirements.

Option Three:

This option allows the district to compare the average instructional staff salary expenditure per

student in each project school with the average instructional staff salary expenditure per

student in non-project schools in the district; a 10% variance is allowed. Districts selecting

Option Three shall complete and submit forms A-1, C in the attached packet and a district

developed form that depicts salary expenditure in project and non-project schools to

demonstrate compliance with comparability requirements. When using instructional salaries

per pupil, paid from state and local funds, staff salary differentials for years of employment

shall not be included.

Regardless of the option selected, all original compliance forms shall be submitted no later

than December 2, 2002, to Betty Applewhite, Title I/Migrant Programs, Florida Department of

Education, 325 West Gaines Street, Suite 306, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0400.

The

Auditor General will continue to cite districts that fail to submit comparability reports

by the deadline noted above.

  

However, the comparability requirement does not apply to

districts that do not have more than one building per grade span.

It is essential that each district develop procedures to ensure compliance with the

requirements of Section 1120A (c) of Public Law 103-382. If you have questions or need

additional information, please contact Betty G. Applewhite or Kwaku O. Frempon via email

Betty.Applewhite@FLDOE.ORG

or

Kwaku.Frempon@FLDOE.ORG

or by telephone at (850)

487-3530.

KM/bal

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