State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (sfsf) - Education State Grants, Recovery Act

 

To support and restore funding for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and, as applicable, early child hood education programs and services in States and local educational agencies.

Deleted 01/15/2013 (Archived.) 84.394 Agency: Department of Education Formula Grants Not Applicable. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Division A, Title XIV , Public Law 111-5. Contact Program Office. Contact Program Office. No Credentials or documentation are required. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-87. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. Environmental impact information is not required for this program. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-102. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-110. The Governor must submit an application to the Department containing assurances that the State will: (a) maintain support for elementary, secondary, and higher education for FY 2009, 2010, and 2011 atleast at the FY 2006 level; (b) take actions to improve effectiveness and address inequities in the distribution of highly qualified teachers; (c) improve the collection and use of education data: (d) enhance the quality of the Stateâ₏™s academic standards and assessments; (e) include limited English proficient students and students with disabilities in State assessments; and (f) take actions to turn around schools identified for corrective action or restructuring under Title I, Part A of the ESEA, 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq. Each State must also provide baseline data that demonstrate its current status in each of the areas described in the assurances referenced above, a description of how it intends to use its allocation, and other information as the Secretary may require. The Department makes awards to States on a formula basis upon approval of the State application. Jan 11, 2010 Approval time will vary by State. Not Applicable. Not Applicable. Not Applicable. States must first use this grant to provide any funds needed: (a) to restore State elementary and secondary education support for fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 2011 to the greater of the fiscal year 2008 or 2009 level; (b) to allow existing State formula increases to support elementary and secondary education for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 to be implemented and allow funding for phasing in State equity and adequacy adjustments, if such increases were enacted prior to October 1, 2008; and (c) to restore support for public institutions of higher education (IHEs) for fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 2011 to the greater of fiscal year 2008 or 2009, excluding tuition and fees paid by students. If there is insufficient funding to carry out this activity for each fiscal year, the Governor must allocate funds in proportion to the relative shortfall in State support for each education sector. States must use any remaining funds to provide local educational agencies (LEAs) with subgrants based on their relative shares of funding under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA).

LEAs that receive funds may use funds for activities authorized under the ESEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Adult and Family Literacy Act, and the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins).

LEAs are prohibited from using funds for: payment of maintenance costs; stadiums or other facilities primarily used for athletic contests or exhibitions or other events for which admission is charged to the general public; purchase or upgrade of vehicles; or improvement of stand-alone facilities whose purpose is not the education of children including central office administration or operations or logistical support facilities.

IHEs are prohibited from using the funds: to increase endowments; for the maintenance of systems, equipment, or facilities; for the modernization, renovation, or repair of stadiums or other facilities primarily used for athletic contests or exhibitions or other events for which admission is charged to the general public; or the modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities used for sectarian instruction or religious worship or in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission.

Public IHEs receiving funds must use these funds for educational and general expenditures, and in such a way as to mitigate the need to raise tuition and fees, or for modernization, renovation, or repairs of facilities that are primarily used for instruction, research, or student housing. For each year of the program, a State receiving funds under this title must submit a report to the Department that describes the uses of funds provided under this title within the State; the distribution of funds received; the number of jobs saved or created; tax increases averted; the Stateâ₏™s progress in reducing inequities in the distribution of highly qualified teachers, developing a longitudinal data system, and implementing valid assessment; actions taken to limit tuition and fee increases at public IHEs; the extent to which public IHEs maintained, increased, or decreased enrollments of in-State students; and a description of each modernization, renovation and repair project funded. Specific reporting requirements are detailed in Division A, Title XV of ARRA. Cash reports are not applicable. Progress reports are not applicable. Expenditure reports are required in accordance with guidance from OMB and the Department. Performance monitoring is not applicable. In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised, June 27, 2003), "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations," nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $500,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $500,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A-133. All grantees are subject to the provisions of the Single Audit Act, 31 U.S.C. 75, and OMB Circular A-133. Each recipient must maintain records that fully disclose the total cost of the activity for which the funds are used, the share of the cost provided from other sources, and other such records as will facilitate an effective financial or programmatic audit. The recipient must maintain such records for 3 years after the completion of the activity for which funds are used. Statutory Formula: Title XIV, Section 14001.
Matching Requirements: 61 percent of State allocations is based on relative shares of individuals aged 5 to 24, and 39 percent is based on relative shares of total population. The Department awards up to one-half of 1 percent of the appropriated funds to the outlying areas.
This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. Contact Program Office. Funds are available to the Secretary of Education for obligation until September 30, 2010, and to the States, IHEs, LEAs and other entities until September 30, 2011. The Department will reallocate any funds that a Governor does not subgrant or otherwise commit within 2 years to the remaining States. See the following for information on how assistance is awarded/released: Electronic transfer. None. James Butler, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., S.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20202 Email: James.Butler@ed.gov Phone: (202) 260-9737. http://www.ed.gov/programs/statestablization 91-1909-0-1-501. (Formula Grants) FY 09 $39,743,348,000; FY 10 $0; FY 11 $0 - No additional obligations expected in FY 2010 or 2011. Awards to States will vary in size from approximately $67.6 million to $4.9 billion. The average grant award will be approximately $760 million. Guidance for this program can be found at http://www.ed.gov/programs/statestabilization/applicant.html. Not Applicable.