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22. ACCEPT THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND GRANT Approve and accept federal grant funding from the US Department of Education’s Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) to Maricopa County through the Maricopa County Education Service Agency in the amount of $57,876,323. This grant is part of the 2012 five-year Teacher Incentive Fund program. The term of the grant is five years beginning October 1, 2012, through September 30, 2017. 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 13.8% for FY 2012-13. The grant allows an 8% rate for indirect costs for the administration of the grant. Therefore the recoverable indirect cost of administering the grant is $2,515,649.56, and the non-recoverable indirect cost is $1,823,845.93. $23,805,054 will be passed through to sub recipients and $110,000 in equipment is not subject to indirect cost recovery. Total (5-year) Project Cost: $57,876,323 School Districts Served: Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections Balsz Elementary School District Maricopa County Regional School District Mobile Elementary School District Phoenix Elementary School District Roosevelt Elementary School District Wilson Elementary School District Number of High Need Schools Served: 45 Project Overview: The goal of Rewarding Excellence in Instruction and Leadership – The Next Generation (REIL-TNG) is to advance a human capital management system (HCMS) that is centered on a performance-based compensation system (PBCS) that significantly links educator effectiveness to student outcomes. REIL-TNG’s HCMS will work to attract, place, retain, and sustain effective educators in the neediest schools in the seven partnering school districts. Each district has committed to using the same cross-district PBCS as its educator evaluation system that includes student data analysis, classroom observations with feedback sessions, and targeted professional development. At the start of the project, compensation will involve bonus incentives to those educators deemed effective. Districts will use the first 2 years of the grant to redesign and then adopt a new base-salary structure that is aligned to the project’s guiding principles and ties base salary to educator effectiveness ratings. The new salary schedule will be implemented in year 3 of the grant. The compensation system provides for an increase in salary based on appropriate effectiveness ratings for educators. There are also increased salary options for teachers deemed effective who take on additional roles (i.e., master educator, instructional master educators) with responsibilities that involve designing professional development support, coaching one-on-one, offering collaborative learning team strategies, and data use. (C-37-13-006-G-00)