Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 581 - OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Division 17 - STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS › Section 581-017-0811 - Early Literacy Success School District Grants: Allowable Uses of Funding

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Allowable
			 uses of the Early Literacy Success School Grant program are described in ORS
			 327.825 and ORS
			 327.829. The administrative
			 rules that follow provide additional specificity or clarity and do not expand
			 or replace what is in statute.
(2)
			 Training for tutors to implement effectively the provision of high-dosage
			 tutoring according to ORS
			 327.825 and ORS
			 327.829 shall be
			 research-aligned and include the specific knowledge and skills relevant to the
			 literacy concepts, skills, instructional practices of the tutoring program, and
			 needs of students who it is serving, and effectively use data to ensure the
			 methods used are responsive to student need. This may be specific to a
			 particular program, or core set of knowledge, skills or instructional practices
			 all of which must be based on the science of reading and writing.
(a) Grant recipients may use internal or
			 external expertise for high dosage tutoring. At least once every two years the
			 Oregon Department of Education shall develop and/or revisit qualifications for
			 tutors. The qualifications shall be inclusive of the qualified tutors
			 definition in these rules and may include additional qualifications, which
			 shall be used by grant recipients to evaluate eligibility for those internal
			 and external to the district to be a tutor for high-dosage tutoring programs.
			 The Department may decide to make the qualifications different for those tutors
			 internal and for those external to the district.
(b) At least once every two years the Oregon
			 Department of Education shall develop or revisit criteria for high-dosage
			 tutoring programs and extended learning. The criteria shall be used by grant
			 recipients to evaluate eligibility for high-dosage tutoring and extended
			 learning programs to be used for the purposes of this grant.
(c) The Oregon Department of Education shall,
			 at least once every two years, develop or revisit a list of qualified
			 high-dosage tutoring program providers, should grant recipients choose to use
			 external providers. To be included on the list, the provider must meet the
			 qualifications in section (a) and (b) of this rule if providing a program and
			 tutors or just (b) if providing a program only and must include content to be
			 determined by the Department.
(d)
			 The Oregon Department of Education will independently review potential
			 providers at least once every two years by posting a Request for Information
			 for providers to solicit information from interested vendors.
(A) ODE will publish the list no later than
			 January 15th of odd numbered years, beginning in 2025. After the first
			 publication, eligible applicants who use funding to pay for external high
			 dosage tutoring services shall select from the list.
(B) Once a high-dosage tutoring program
			 provider has been approved by the Department and placed on the list, to remain
			 on the list the provider must every two years provide an updated information
			 form provided by the Department.