LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program.
LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program. Description of GEPA Compliance: Teachers, paraprofessionals, and other staff members will participate in professional development, targeted in researched-based educational best practices in student remediation. The LEA will ensure all students, regardless of gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age, will be screened by the preassessments and will have access to the programs put in place to help at-risk students. The LEA will take reasonable measures and make accommodations for those who may need additional help in accessing assessments and programs. Advantage Arts Academy will frequently evaluate programs and their beneficiaries to comply with all GEPA standards. ASSURANCES The superintendent or charter school director assures the following: Plan Development and Approval Requirements ● The LEA must engage in meaningful consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to: i. students;
LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program. Description of GEPA Compliance: Canyons assures full compliance with all GEPA requirements. The strategies identified through extensive data analysis were intentionally selected to increase access to opportunities for instruction, intervention, mental health services, and credit recovery for all students. Specific strategies including community outreach, home visits, and multi-lingual supports were included to remove anticipated barriers and to identify unanticipated barriers throughout implementation. The monitoring and evaluation of the strategies outlined in Section A include the careful examination of the impact on all students. ASSURANCES The superintendent or charter school director assures the following: Plan Development and Approval Requirements ● The LEA must engage in meaningful consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to: i. students;
LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program. Description of GEPA Compliance: Hawthorn Academy will invite individually, students in each of the identified areas, the opportunity to participate. Invitations will be distributed through multiple mediums and multiple times. For the extended year program parents will be contacted by email and a personal phone call. Students are allowed to participate even if they cannot attend every day. No student is excluded based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age. Also, the program will be opened to all students should a parent feel that their student needs additional help and additional teachers and TAs paid to meet the needs of students. Scores on valid and reliable reading assessments will be used to group students into small groups so that students are with others at a similar level. In the second identified area, all students identified as ELL will receive support. Additionally, content teachers will work with the ELL support teachers to identify student academic needs. Parents will be asked to allow students to receive support through a letter sent home. If there is no response, a personal phone call will be made to explain the services and support for learning for their student. All communication will be in the parent’s primary language. For tracking of attendance, adults calling parents will identify with parents the barrier to attendance and together create a plan to overcome those barriers.
LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program. Description of GEPA Compliance: Mountainville Academy will maintain complete compliance with GEPA. Students and staff that face barriers regarding gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age will not be discriminated against. Any additional support these stakeholders need to take full advantage of the learning opportunities at Mountainville Academy will be provided to the greatest extent possible. ASSURANCES The superintendent or charter school director assures the following: Plan Development and Approval Requirements ● The LEA must engage in meaningful consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to: i. students;
LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program. Description of GEPA Compliance: Staff will participate in professional development, targeted in researched-based educational best practices in student remediation. Ascent Academies will ensure all students, regardless of gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age, will be screened by the preassessments and will have access to the programs put in place to help a-risk students. Ascent Academies will take reasonable measures and make accommodations for those who may need additional help in accessing assessments and programs in the school setting. We will comply with the requirements of Section 427 by paying salaries of staff who will teach our at-risk and Special Education students. The funds will not be used for equipment, but will go toward more time ensuring students have met state standards of proficiency. Students are chosen based upon scores from Acadience Benchmark Assessments, Imagine Math Benchmark Assessment, Imagine Literacy Assessments, etc. The funds may also be used to provide social and emotional support through our counseling and social workers department, which will be available to all students regardless of gender, race, color, national origin, disability or age. ASSURANCES The superintendent or charter school director assures the following: Plan Development and Approval Requirements ● The LEA must engage in meaningful consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to: i. students;
LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program. Description of GEPA Compliance: Vista will abide by all applicable statutes, regulations, program plans and standards as outlined by state and federal agencies. Vista will follow proper procurement and dispersal practices as well. Vita commits to completing all reports and data submissions as requested. Vista has conducted multiple open settings to allow teachers, students, parents and community members to contribute to the planning of the use of ARP funds and will continue to solicit feedback on the implementation. Vista commits to review appropriate data to ensure care is taken to support and accelerate learning for all identified at-risk student populations. ASSURANCES The superintendent or charter school director assures the following: Plan Development and Approval Requirements ● The LEA must engage in meaningful consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to: i. students;
LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program. Description of GEPA Compliance: Wasatch Peak will use data driven, high quality assessments to identify student needs regardless of gender, race, color, national origin, disability, or age and work to create instruction to meet those specific needs. Wasatch Peak Academy identified students who struggled during the distance learning programs offered in the Spring of 2020 and is providing summer school programs to help them on an as needed basis with certified teachers. Wasatch Peak Academy will target the needs of individual students to address holes in their education in small group and individual tutoring sessions to ensure that each student’s needs are met. Wasatch Peak is offering face to face and distance learning options to students to meet the needs of a variety of family situations. Wasatch Peak is prepared to provide computers and digital meetings via zoom to address the individual needs of students who are struggling academically and are unable to access services in person. Wasatch Peak will offer additional services as needed to students who are not making adequate progress in the provided programs. Wasatch Peak will continue to evaluate and refine programs as needed until all students’ needs are being met. ASSURANCES The superintendent or charter school director assures the following: Plan Development and Approval Requirements ● The LEA must engage in meaningful consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to: i. students;
LEA Description of GEPA Compliance. Please describe how the LEA will comply with the requirements of GEPA Section 427 (20 U.S.C. 1228a). Comprehensive GEPA requirements are listed under the assurances section of this document. Your description must include information on the steps the LEA proposes to take to permit students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries to overcome barriers (including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age) that impede access to, or participation in, the program. Description of GEPA Compliance: Wasatch Waldorf Charter School will submit assurances to the USBE along with all required documentation and plans regarding how to administer programs using ESSER funds in accordance with all applicable regulations and equal access. Funds will be administered based on appropriate fiscal control procedures and reports will be submitted as required. Stakeholders will be engaged in the development and implementation of the program. ASSURANCES The superintendent or charter school director assures the following: Plan Development and Approval Requirements ● The LEA must engage in meaningful consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to: i. students;
