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READ Budget Submissions
Budget Submissions Due June 30
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LEPs will access the READ Act budget submission through the READ Data Collection website.
To get permission to login into the READ budget submission you will need to contact your Local Access Manager (LAM) and have them assign you to the "READACTBUDGET" group.
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Overview
The READ Act now includes a new budget reporting component. To fulfill this statutory requirement, CDE has created a budget submission tool that asks Local Education Providers (LEPs) to identify which of the seven statutory intervention categories they intend to use in the coming budget year to support students identified as having significant reading deficiencies.
In order to receive per-pupil intervention funds, each LEP is required to report a budget and budget narrative annually.
Budget Submission Timeline
Task |
Date |
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READ budget submission window opens |
April 1 |
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LEPs submit budgets |
April 1 - June 30 |
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CDE Completes Budget Reviews and Provides Comments. LEP is notified of budget status |
July 15 |
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LEP's revise budgets and re-submit if necessary |
July 15 - August 5 |
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Final budget submissions DUE |
August 7 |
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Distribution of READ funds |
August |
Updates to Statutory Requirements
In addition to reporting a budget and budget narrative annually:
- The allowable uses of per-pupil intervention money expands to include purchasing CDE approved core reading instructional programs and purchasing technology, including software, to assist in assessing and monitoring student progress.
- CDE is required to monitor and, if necessary, audit district use of the per-pupil intervention funds throughout the budget year.
- The amount of per-pupil intervention money a district may retain from year to year cannot exceed 15 percent.
- Some of the READ intervention funds are redirected to the external program evaluation, state provided teacher training, public information campaign, and early literacy grant program, thereby reducing the per-pupil distribution to districts.
Allowable Uses of Per-Pupil Intervention Funds
- Operate a summer school literacy program
- Purchase core reading instructional programs that are included on the READ Act advisory list of instructional programming
- Purchase and/or provide approve targeted, evidence-based or scientifically based intervention services to students which may include services provided by a reading interventionist
- Purchase tutoring services focused in increasing students’ foundational reading skills
- Provide technology, including software that is on the advisory list of instructional programming; may include professional development for use of technology
- Purchase from a BOCES the services of a reading specialist or reading interventionist
- Provide professional development programming to support K-3 educators in teaching reading
Training Center
The P-3 office will be hosting informational webinars on the new budget reporting requirement outlined in SB19-199. This new budget reporting requirement will take place during the 2019-20 data collection window.
Recorded Webinars
Feb 26, 2020
Feb 5, 2020
January 22, 2020
January 7, 2020
December 19, 2019
- This webinar was not recorded
- 12/19/20 Webinar Power Point
Contacts
Whitney Hutton
Literacy Business Analyst
hutton_w@cde.state.co.us
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UPDATED
April 6, 2020
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