[Busmgrs] 2016-17 District and ESD estimates

[KREIN Adam - ODE]

Good afternoon everyone

I hope you all had a nice weekend.

As promised, I have updated the 2016-17 State School Fund estimate for March with the annual Common School Fund (CSF) amount - as well as the Facility Grant. Previously, I only loaded one of the two CSF payments, which resulted in lower local revenue forecasts, as we need both payments to show revenues for the year. Information can be found at the following link:    http://www.oregon.gov/ode/schools-and-districts/grants/Pages/K-12-School-Funding-Information.aspx  Typically, the first payment should match the second payment, so we just doubled the amount received in January for the SSF estimate. We don't know how much will initially be transferred, as the payment each year is based on earnings of the fund, so we find out what the revenues are shortly before we send the payments to you.

Also, there were questions regarding poverty, teacher experience, charter rate and other data. Below are some tips:


*         The teacher experience factor is calculated from data submitted by the school district in their Staff Position collection. Something to watch for: if you had a veteran teacher leave and a new teacher with no, or little experience your teacher experience factor will go down.

*         Poverty data for 2016-17 and 2017-18 is now based off the December 2016 SAIPE data compiled by the Federal Census Bureau. With the exception of a few districts, the report shows a decrease in poverty across the state.  This means poverty weights will decrease for many of you, and in turn will increase the amount per weight, as there are fewer weights in the Formula statewide.

*         The Charter rate is calculated by taking the district's General Purpose Grant divided by the district's current ADMw - not the extended ADMw. A sponsor must contractually establish payment to the public charter school based on ORS 338.155 which describes the Charter rate.

We have found the Small School Correction is not including the kindergarten ADM. This has resulted in some districts receiving less and some districts receiving more weights from their Small Remote Elementary School Correction (SmESC). We have our IT department working on it and we will be updating the next estimate for April's payment with the corrected information. We had to rebalance the SSF for March due to the amount of updates and unfortunately, due to timing constraints, were not able to wait until the programing was corrected for the SmESC.

With that, If you see anything of concern in the 17-18 Estimate of Membership and Revenue (EMR) data please contact me so we can make updates. I will be making updates to the SSF from the EMR data next month and posting new estimates accordingly.

Please see the new estimates at the links below. We will be using these estimates for the March SSF payment.

2016-17 District Estimates<http://www.oregon.gov/ode/schools-and-districts/grants/Documents/2016-17%20SSF%20estimate%203-8-17.pdf>

2016-17 ESD Estimates<http://www.oregon.gov/ode/schools-and-districts/grants/Documents/ESD%2016-17%20estimate%20as%20of%203-8-17.pdf>

Thank you

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Oregon achieves . . . together!

Adam Krein
State School Fund Coordinator | School Finance and Facilities
www.oregon.gov/ode|<http://www.oregon.gov/ode|>  255 Capitol Street  |  Salem, Oregon 97310
503.947.5678







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