Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies - PUERTO RICO

FY 2009 Title I Allocations under the Regular FY 2009 Appropriation and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

Maximum Required

Expenditures For 

FY 2009 Title I Total Allocation Choice-Related Maximum Per-Child

Allocation Title I FY 2009 Regular Transportation Expenditure For

Under Regular Allocation Under Appropriation Plus And Supplemental Supplemental

LEA ID District Appropriation Recovery Act Recovery Act* Educational Services** Educational Services***

4300030 PUERTO RICO 534,235,622 386,407,681 920,643,303 184,128,661 2,361.65

4399999 PART D SUBPART 2 0 0 0 0 0.00

* Actual amounts received by LEAs will be smaller than shown here due to State-level adjustments to Federal Title I allocations. States adjust allocations, for example, to reflect LEA boundary changes or the

 creation of new LEAs, including charter school LEAs, that are not accounted for in the statutory calculations. States also are permitted to reserve, for administration, up to 1 percent of the allocations they

 would receive if $14 billion were appropriated and generally must reserve 4 percent in fiscal year 2009 for school improvement activities. These adjustments will reduce the actual amounts available

 under all three columns of the table.

 

** An LEA must use up to an amount equal to 20 percent of its total Title I, Part A allocation received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the regular FY 2009 appropriation

 (the "20-percent reservation") as determined by the State to cover choice-related transportation costs for students who exercise a choice option and to pay for supplemental educational services for students

 whose parents request such services. The 20-percent reservation may include Title I, Part A funds or funding from other Federal, State, local, and private sources. The amount shown in this column is the

 Department’s estimate of the amount that affected LEAs - those with schools identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring - may have to spend to meet this requirement. Actual expenditures

 will depend on such factors as the number of students exercising a choice option or receiving supplemental educational services and the costs of satisfying these requests. An LEA has discretion to determine

 the allocation of these funds between choice-related transportation and supplemental educational services, except that it must spend at least one-quarter of the 20-percent reservation - or an amount equal to 

 5 percent of its Title I, Part A allocation - on each activity if there is demand for both from students and their parents. State educational agencies are required to post actual information on the 20-percent

 reservation and the per-pupil amount on their websites based on the final LEA allocations they determine. Note that the Secretary is inviting waivers to allow LEAs to exclude Title I, Part A ARRA funds

 when calculating the set-aside for choice-related transportation and supplemental educational services and determining the per-pupil amount for supplemental educational services. For more information on

 this topic, please see the Department's guidance on Title I, Part A waivers at: http://www.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/title-i-waiver.doc.

*** An LEA that must arrange for supplemental educational services is required to pay, for each child receiving services, the lesser of the actual cost of the services or an amount equal to the LEA’s Title I, Part A

 allocation received from the State divided by the number of poor students in the LEA, as determined by estimates produced by the US Bureau of the Census. Thus the amount shown in this column reflects

 the statutory “cap” on per-child expenditures for supplemental educational services.