Dear County Superintendents of Schools:

Second Apportionment for Every Student Succeeds
Act Comprehensive Support and Improvement
Local Educational Agency
Fiscal Year 2020–21

This apportionment, in the amount of $2,200,511.10, is made from federal funds provided to the state under Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (Public Law 114‒95). Section 1003 of the ESSA provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to serve schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) activities.

Only those LEAs that submitted to the California Department of Education (CDE) the 2020–21 ESSA CSI LEA Application for Funding and met fiscal reporting requirements for Report 1 are included in this apportionment. The amount paid to each LEA was determined based on information reported by the LEA in the Grant Management and Reporting Tool. Each LEA’s apportionment is based on claimed expenditures for the performance period February 15, 2021, to June 30, 2021, less the amount paid in the previous apportionment. The CDE is implementing cash management in order to reduce the time elapsing between the receipt and disbursement of federal funds, pursuant to the cash management requirements under federal statute and regulations. Allocation amounts in this first apportionment have been adjusted from the preliminary funding amounts.

Additional information such as school eligibility, program requirements, school support resources, and Frequently Asked Questions are located on the CDE CSI web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/sw/t1/csi.asp. Information such as the subgrant description; statutory authority; allowable and disallowable activities and costs; and assurances, certifications, and terms and conditions of the subgrant are located in the 2020–21 ESSA CSI LEA Application for Funding under the Funding Tab at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/sw/t1/csi.asp. Information pertaining to approved indirect cost rates for fiscal year (FY) 2020–21 are located at https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/ac/ic/.

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) grant award number for this funding is S010A200005. The federal award date is July 1, 2020. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance subprogram number is 84.010A (Title I, Part A, Basic Grants to Local Educational Agencies). The funding is appropriated in Provision 6 of Schedule (2) of Item 6100-134-0890 of the Budget Act of 2020, SB 85 (Chapter 14, Statutes of 2020). The California sub-allocation (pass-through) number is Program Cost Account (PCA) 15438.

This subgrant is subject to the provisions of Title I and Title VIII, as applicable, of the ESEA, as amended by the ESSA, and the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) (Public Law 103-382). This subgrant is also subject to Title I regulations in 34 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 200, and the Education Department General Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR, Parts 76 (except for 76.650–76.662, Participation of Students Enrolled in Private Schools), 77, 81, and 82, 2 CFR Part 3485, and the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards in 2 CFR Parts 200 and 3474.

Under the federal Tydings Amendment, Section 421(b) of the GEPA, any funds that are not obligated at the end of the federal funding period, July 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021, shall remain available for obligation for an additional period of 12 months through September 30, 2022, within the limits specified in Section 1127 of the ESEA.

The project period for the 2020‒21 ESSA CSI LEA subgrant begins on February 15, 2021, and ends on September 30, 2022. All FY 2020‒21 funds must be expended by September 30, 2022, and legally obligated within the dates designated and must not exceed the maximum amount allocated to the LEA.

Pursuant to 2 CFR, Section 200.305(b)(9), interest earned amounts up to $500 per year may be retained by the non-Federal entity for administrative expense. Any additional interest earned on Federal advance payments deposited in interest-bearing accounts must be remitted annually. LEAs should forward interest payments for remittance to the ED to:

California Department of Education
Cashier’s Office
P.O. Box 515006
Sacramento, CA 95851

To ensure proper posting of payments, please indicate the Program Cost Account (PCA) number (PCA 15438) and identify the payment as “Federal Interest Returned.”

Warrants will be mailed to each county treasurer approximately three weeks from the date of this Notice. For standardized account code structure coding, use Resource Code 3182, Unrestricted: Locally defined, and Revenue Object Code 8290, All Other Federal Revenue.

County superintendents were notified of this apportionment by email. The CDE requests that the email be forwarded to all school districts and charter schools in the county that met the criteria for CSI. Links to this letter and the accompanying schedule of second apportionment are posted on the CDE web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/sw/t1/csi.asp.

If you have any questions regarding CSI, this apportionment, or the allocation amounts, please contact the School Improvement and Support Office by phone at 916-319-0833 or by email at SISO@cde.ca.gov.

Sincerely,

Dr. Daniel Lee, Deputy Superintendent
Equity Branch