Vote: adopted

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25. ACCEPT THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND (TIF) GRANT, FUNDED THROUGH THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT (ARRA) Approve and accept federal grant funding from the US Department of Education’s Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to Maricopa County through the Maricopa County Education Service Agency in the amount of $51,539,512. This grant is part of the five-year $1.2 billion Teacher Quality Grant program. The term of the grant is five years beginning October 1, 2010, through September 30, 2015. The purpose of this grant is to strengthen the education profession by rewarding excellence, attracting teachers and principals to high-need and hard to staff areas, and providing teachers and principals with the feedback and support they need to succeed. The Education Service Agency’s calculated indirect cost rate is 33.6% for FY 2010-11. The grant allows a 5% rate for indirect costs for the administration of the grant. Therefore the recoverable indirect cost of administering the grant is $1,351,245, and the non-recoverable indirect cost is $7,729,119. $23,163,375 will be passed through to sub recipients and is not subject to indirect cost recovery. Acceptance of this grant requires a revenue and expenditure appropriation adjustment increasing the FY 2010-11 Education Service Agency (370) Grant Fund (715) operating (0000) revenue and expenditure budgets in the amount of $3,152,955. Grant revenues are not local revenues for the purpose of the constitutional expenditure limitation, and therefore, expenditures of these revenues are not prohibited by the budget law. This budget adjustment does not alter the budget constraining the expenditures of local revenues duly adopted by the Board pursuant to A.R.S. §42-17105. The Rewarding Excellence in Instruction and Leadership (REIL) program will create a systemic K–12 performance-based compensation system (PBCS) that transforms how six Alliance Districts recruit, retain, support, and compensate effective teachers and principals in high-need schools. REIL will accomplish this by: assembling the Right Team, consisting of a strategic Alliance of Stakeholders including Public Policy Makers (Governor’s Office; Chairs of the State Senate and House Education Committees; Governing Board Members), Professional Educators, and Professional Associations (AEA; ASBA; AASA; AASBO); providing the Right Tools to measure and develop teacher and leader effectiveness; and placing the Right Talent in teaching and leading in the highest need schools on career paths and support roles to ensure that all teachers and principals have the job-embedded training to help youth succeed. For the first time in Arizona’s history, this unique Alliance includes 3,380 teachers, 174 principals, and 6 superintendents united to: (1) ensure that over 52,000 students graduate college-and-career ready by increasing student achievement and growth in all content areas; (2) enhance careers for effective teachers and administrators by implementing a fiscally sustainable PBCS; and, (3) develop talent in Teachers and Principals through a sustainable, comprehensive program of performance-based evaluation, support, and compensation. REIL will realize its goals by ensuring that the Right Team has the Right Tools to identify the Right Talent resulting in REIL Change for students in the highest needs schools throughout Maricopa County. (C-37-11-096-G-00)

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9. ADMINISTRATIVE CORRECTION TO THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND (TIF) GRANT, FUNDED THROUGH THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT (ARRA) Approve an administrative correction to the action taken on October 6, 2010 (C-37-11-096-G-00), for acceptance of federal grant funding from the US Department of Education Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) in which the action requested was to approve the funds via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds. This administrative correction eliminates funding via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as the funding will be from the US Department of Education Teacher Incentive Fund. All other conditions remain the same. Additionally, retroactively approve application to the U.S. Department of Education Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grant. This grant requires matching funds. Per the County’s grant policy, the Education Service Agency should have sought approval to apply. This action was overlooked. The matching fund requirement is 46.05% ($5,040,652 for the first three years) and will be provided solely through the participating school districts. Maricopa County funding sources will not be participating in the grant match. (C-37-11-096-G-02)

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21. EXTENSION OF GRANT FROM U.S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND Approve the continuation of federal grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) to Maricopa County through the Maricopa County Education Service Agency. The term of the grant is amended to six years beginning October 1, 2010, through September 30, 2016. (C-37-11-096-G-03)

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