FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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    CHARLIE CRIST
    BERNARDO A. GARCIA, CHIEF
    Commissioner
    BUREAU OF SCHOOL SAFETY
    AND SCHOOL SUPPORT
    TO:
    District Title I Coordinators
    FROM:
    Angel Stanford
    DATE:
    November 19, 2002
    SUBJECT:
    2002-2003 Monitoring Plans
    As you are by now aware, the United States Department of Education (USDE)
    conducted an on-site monitoring visit of Florida Department of Education (FDOE) Title I,
    Programs in April 2002.
    You were provided a copy of the report from this visit in a
    document from Mr. Rony Joseph, the State Director for Title I Migrant Programs that
    was dated October 3, 2002.
    This correspondence is a follow-up to the comments
    and/or recommendations regarding on-site monitoring.
    In response to these findings and other areas of concern surrounding federal program
    monitoring, the Department is redesigning the monitoring of all federal programs. The
    planning and development of the monitoring system will occur during the 2002-03
    school year.
    As part of this process, representatives from the field will be invited to
    participate. As we work through the many issues involved in such a system, we will
    keep you informed about the plans and activities.
    For the 2002-03 school year, we will continue to utilize the self-evaluation workpapers
    that districts and other local education agencies (LEAs) have used in the past. Every
    district and other LEA will be required to submit completed workpapers to the Bureau of
    Safe Schools and School Support.
    The completed work papers will be used to
    determine which districts will receive on-site visits.
    Attached you will find a draft of the self-evaluation work papers. These work papers are
    being provided as a draft to allow you an opportunity to give us input into how this tool
    could be improved to provide the best method of evaluation at the district level. This is
    a very important part of the process because the on-site monitoring tools will be aligned
    with the self-evaluation workpapers.
    We are requesting that any suggestions be
    submitted no later than
    December 20, 2002.
    This will also enable district staff to meet
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    the March 28, 2003 deadline that is required for submission of the completed
    workpapers.
    This will provide FDOE staff ample time to review and incorporate any
    changes prior to the first regional workshops that will occur beginning February 2003.
    Comments and suggestions should be returned to Florida Department of Education,
    Title I Migrant Programs, 325 West Gaines, Suite 306, Tallahassee, Florida 32399,
    Attention: Angel Stanford.
    If I can provide additional, information or assistance please feel free to contact me at
    (850) 922-8952, or at
    angel.stanford@fldoe.org
    .
    //AS
    Attachment
    cc:
    ?
    Betty
    Coxe
    Kathy Mizereck
    Bernardo A. Garcia
    Martha Asbury
    Rony Joseph
    Betty Applewhite
    School District Superintendents
    Title I Monitoring Team
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