Um we do set goals for um how are our students who are qualified as homeless? How do how are they how is their attendance, their discipline, their grades, their test scores, all how are all those things compared to the general population? And we have to set goals to try to increase that and lower that gap. But yeah, first is our homelessly is installing benefits. uh we are required she has to attend a certain amount of hours every year of u professional development. So like going to a conference or something is usually in there for her and then everything else we need to do for um our students. Now if you remember in the first part I said our original budget was 72,000. Uh our new budget that we're working with right now is 101 almost 102,000. So a piece of that is I can roll over money too.
So anything we didn't spend last year flows over into this year and then they also usually around October, November their final allocations drop as we call it. So um additional money is added to your grants. So um they benefit you know by having an increase in in funding. Um so title one this is like I said an entitlement grant. So we are given this every year. We don't have to compete to get the money. Um so the whole purpose is to help our students who are from low-income families make that academic achievement. Okay? So that's the whole purpose is to eliminate that or eliminate or reduce that gap. Um, everything that we do in that grant has to relate back to the schools and the district's integrated action plan, which is those things that we work on in February when we all go to Desert Valley and we go talk about um our proficiencies and the systems at our schools and like improvement plans for the following school year.
So, anything that's in that plan can be funded in the grant. If it's not in the plan, it can't be in the grant. Okay. Um so I already talked about the district set aides go first then we determine the budgets for the schools. So our first priority is salaries and benefits. I mean it has to be to retain our staff to increase th you know those interventions for those students. So right now we have um all of our title one staff, our instructional coaches, our preschool program, which is uh three preschool classrooms and two pair of professionals. Um our liaison, our homeless liaison is actually also a piece of our family liaison. Um just about 25% of her salaries for all of our our families in our after school programs are also paid on title one. Um we have a school counselor and then myself as well.
So question um why are the instructional coaches included in title one? Because I know you well part of it is it's because our budget isn't big enough in title two for that but it's also providing professional development to teachers to increase proficiency for those populations. So it's kind of a No. Yeah. You just This is just the best place to put them. Don't just be honest. Part of it is the best place to put that. Just be honest. That's the best place. That's part of our title one program. So when years ago, and I don't know when this happened. I think I was still I think I was a principal at the time, but we went to rather than targeted title one, which is you only target like your lowest students and those are the only students that get a benefit from the grant. Um so anything you purchase could only be used like in that classroom.
Okay. Our district went schoolwide title one. Yeah. So when we went school Y title one that means that the money can be purchased to benefit every single student in that in their schools. So that's another way that they were able to do that because that person is part of the title one program. Our our instructional coaches are part of title one. They also manage right now um they manage the title one program so they keep the data. So the instru instructional coaches manage title one. Yes. Okay. at the school site. Um, what kind of afterchool programs do we offer? Um, we right now are offering two days a week for an hour after school at every campus. Um, and it's to target our our lower performing students. It's titled math and title reading. Okay. Are they well attended? Not really. Elementaryaries are a little better.
um once you get to the junior high they're not very well attended at all. I'm just looking for 20%. Of course you are. Yeah. Uh this year we did drop transportation as well. So in the past we also had 21st century grant which we don't have right now. Um so our programs were really big our after school programs and we provided transportation. Um now we do not provide transportation and that's a piece of probably why some of our families still come um if they don't have the transportation to pick up their students after that hour. after school. Um, our homeless students are the only students that we're required to provide transportation to if they're after school. Okay. Carolyn, um, she she's very important. Okay. There's no there's no question in that. But does the 22% increase that you figure for every employee, is that part of as part of the M, is that part of Jen, too?
Well, she has to build that in for her for the people paid out of this out of these grants. The 22% comes out of that budget. Oh, okay. All right. That's I was just Yeah, and that's a great question. So, that the difficulty is is our anticipated 20% less in say title one, but a 20% increase in insurance until your money is goes. You're looking at 40%. There's actually a 402% yeah 42% deficit problem um roughly I mean because insurance is what we figured it went from around 14,000 a person and next year we're looking at about $16,800 a person for insurance so that's a okay you know just being honest about this we're losing 20% and then you're important I'm not I'm not denigrating your job at all. I'm just saying and then we lose another 22% of this amount of money and it's No, you're not losing it.
It's already built in. You're not losing another 22%. Because that's the benefits you're losing. Yeah. But that would be the increase for next year. Yeah. So that's what she's talking about. So like Yeah. a year where you would have been paying more than $1,000 for insurance. You're not paying another%. Yeah. Of this much of this money, right? But the 22% is how we calculate the rest of the benefits. She's already paying that's not going to change that much. But that's this year. Yeah. I'm looking at next year when the 22% for like um social security and it's already figured in here. Yeah. It's the insurance that's it's just the health insurance that All right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And Okay. I'm sorry. I I stopped you. I stopped you from doing your thing. So, go ahead. Questions are okay. Um that's what we intended for you all to ask questions.
We also in title one pay for a lot of intervention materials and pro like intervention programs like um brain pop some amplified programs. um Amira. So just like tier 2 instructional programs that we use and then once again that anything that's left over from things we have to have to operate the schools tell me what they want to purchase. So our original um allocation you can see was about 1.7 million. Um we did get additional funding um because of unspent money the state had not spent. um they gave us an additional $200 plus,000 270 or so thousand dollar um for the rest of this year. So that doesn't help us with salaries and benefits because the grants only for this year. But what we haven't did decide to do with that money is a lot of the intervention materials that we can purchase. anything that's physical materials that we need um for tier two and tier three instruction um Chromebooks and those kind of things are we bought about a thousand Chromebooks with the esser money um back in 20 the fall of 2020 I believe um and they're all getting to the point where you can't update them and then none of our programs will work on them if that happens so we're having to replace some of those as well so I'm trying to make use of that money before it goes away.
Um, title two is um, professional development. So, we do have a piece of um, an instructional coach that's paid out of there and a piece of my salaries out of there. So, currently mine is title one, title two, and um, indirect cost is what pays for my salary. So, but we have a um, instructional coach that's partially title one and partially title two. Um so but the rest of it is in right now is instructional empowerment as well as sending teachers to different conferences. We've sent PE teachers um to PE conference. Um art teachers have gone to an art conference. Um some materials that we use um like programs that we use for professional development. We have a program that we use for our pair of professionals that has a whole library of things that especially Kate uses to um train her pair of professionals.
This this one is not uh competitive. Nope. Okay. But this is one that may go away. Yeah. Yeah. Title four. So title four um it's kind of the well-rounded grant. So we are required to have at least 20% of the money for safe and healthy. Um so um we a lot of like our training for CPI um our teachers and our our paras and our administrators get trained um for CPI which is an intervention for for students um who have more extreme behaviors. So that pays for that. uh well-rounded would be like after school program um steam camp so summer school is paid for out of here and then just a piece of it has to be for the use of technology right now we use that for some things that Bangley uses as an instructional coach um for technology um we're not allowed to do any more than 15% for things um technology things like computers or infrastructure so uh we do have a school counselor that's paid partially out of title one and partially out of this grant.
Um so she her salaries in there for summer school and CPI are the huge things we do out of there but we also are able to buy u materials for art, music and PE out of this and this is one that's going away. Could be. Yeah, it's one that's up for consideration. a little bit all she gets out of 113,000. Yeah, we can get a lot but but yes, a lot. It's not there. But we'll have to get creative. So the CPI training, we're lucky because um Chris Roy and the pins at Sunrise and Kate Hall are our trainers. So really what we're paying for out of for CPI is paying the teachers to come in on a Friday and Saturday to get trained for the staff. It's not just teachers and for the um workbooks that they use at the training. So if we lose this grant, are we still going to be able to fund art, music, and PE?
Oh, yeah. Because this is just resources. This is resources. So like m um music and more extra paints and so the the purpose of the grants is to do things that are over and above what the normal school budget would do. Oh okay. So materials we wouldn't be able to purchase otherwise. Then we have rural and low income grants. This is kind of a bonus grant because there's not a lot of strings to this grant. Um it's a little more flexible. So right now we do have after school program in there um which is nice because we can offer some of the enrichment things. So title one can only be tutoring for math and and this grant we can use to do like we wanted to do um a sports thing or art or something after school for kids. um kinder camp which due in July and that's eight days of kinder camp the summer school and then we do buy additional things for our science classes and for our gate teachers out of this program and then the instructional resources right now with that we anticipate completely out of this grant and then PBL project is um used more by our gate teachers it has units of study in there for like hands-on learning for again the science and gate re resources is just above what would normally come out of the M budget.
Um the problem is that science can get expensive. So I mean this is refurbishing like all the kits that they use in their classrooms to do experiments and things. Um and then I know for the unreal budget the gate budget is very low. That's really low. So, um, gay teachers won't get a whole lot extra on their So, this does help them be able to do extra things. Um, and then we have special ed. So, there's two special ed. We have the basic, which is for kids who are um, like five and above, and then we have preschool, whoever kids up to five. Um, but the expenditures have to be over and above. So, Caroline has to guarantee an M that she outspends at least the same amount like this year as she did last year. If she does not, then this grant goes away.
So, we have to make sure that those expenditures stay in M. This grant is supposed to be over and above what we can do in M. Okay. Well, it kind of sounds like we're adding kids at this level. So that's not a problem. Yeah. But we have to ask like if we didn't have special needs kids, would this still exist? If um do kids who do not have disabilities also have this expenditure in our budget and then is it documented in? So those are the three things we have to consider when we purchase anything in this round. So it's a lot of salaries and benefits. Uh right now we have a few students who are in homebound instruction either because of health needs or because of behavior issues. Um so we have teachers who go outside after school to to work with them in their homes.
Um the proportionate share piece is the piece for parents that have students in private or home school that we um support. And then professional developments and resources and supplies or special um the school safety program. This is the third year of that or three-year program. We're in year two right now. And this is our four counselors and our school resource officer. And that's clear. Like I don't have a choice what I put in there. That's the only thing I'm Do we only have one school SRO? SRO now? Yes. For all the schools or just um so that SRO has to be at Fox Creek. Okay. Okay. But the city does have another SRO that we share with all the schools and then like oh yeah. He's new this year. is a new but his office is at full middle which is nice. Yes. Where are we in this grant?
Are we in the first year? The third year two for us. So we have one more year with this grant. Okay. Okay. And then title three. This is another one they said is kind of in discussion for next year. Um so this is over and above anything else we do for any other student. So this is only for our English language learners and we are required to have professional development for our teachers and we're required to have family engagement. So those are two things that have to be in this grant. But we also purchase um supplies for our classrooms, supplies for parent night. Um there's some other things that come out of that. So on the bottom, the 29,000 uh dollars is what our money is. That's what our district has for title title three. The 47,000 is what the total grant is. So that's the portion that um Mojave Valley Elementary School District and Crush have.
And you said that we were next year was just Mojave Valley. Just Mojave Valley next year. Okay. So Crush is getting their own. Precious is having to join another. Okay. There's more to that, isn't there? Oh, yes. And then our TSI grant, that's a competitive grant and it's based on what your your student proficiency um of your subgroups. So, those are the EL special educ lunch. um you're spanning for Latino students or your students with two or more race are identified with two or more races. Um so if they're not meeting the proficiency um we get we are eligible for this grant. So it has to be evidence based items that can only be used for those school sites. So currently um we have extra hours with IE that are training at those schools. That's what this In the past, we've done like school specific training.
Um, we've bought instructional programs in the past with that as well if it supports that. And we're in second year in this one. This is year to year. Oh, year to year. Okay. And as of right now, I have heard nothing about any of these grants. So, I did meet, let's see, it was February February 25th. So, at the end of February, we met with our specialist at Fox Creek because they're under improvement for um the special ed department with our students and she mentioned nothing about grant. So, I'm not sure that this is going to even be an option for I mean, you don't want it to be an option. You want your students to be proficient or or meeting the minimum standards. Um but um right now it's not an option. So, I really like your question about art and music and PE um because those are special programs uh you know not just electives at the junior high level but they're special programs at the elementary level.
Okay, so remember when I was talking about uh the um classroom site fund funding 10 teachers. Okay, for next year they're funding all of our art teachers and all of our music teachers. When the classroom site fund, which is otherwise known as Prop 301, was passed what, two, the year 2000 or 2001, whatever it was, to pre to give this additional funding for teachers um uh intended for teacher salaries and whatever. um uh the teachers in our district, this is institutional memory because I was a principal at the time, but I went to my staff at Coyote and I said, and the other principles ask at their sites as well, okay, do we want to when we set up the plan for using the these funds, do you how do you want it to go? And my teachers uni unanimously said, "Do whatever it takes for us to be able to keep art, music, library, and PE as classes." Because that meant then that teachers had a prep period every day, which became really instrumental when we started working on improvement of instruction so that grade level teams could meet together.