Foundation Aid Plan
2022-2023 School Year
Foundation Aid
Edgemont is set to receive and increase of $985,729 in Foundation Aid (the largest category of state aid received by the district) in the 2022-2023 school year. Through the budget development process and solicited feedback from stakeholders, the district intends to spend these funds in the following areas:
1. Increasing graduation rates and eliminating the achievement gap by:
- continuing the implementation of non-mandated, integrated co-teach (ICT) models across all grade levels.
2. Providing supports for students who are not meeting, or at risk of not meeting, state learning standards in core academic subject areas by:
- Providing instructional support for teachers through the creation of a new teacher resource specialist position in order to further instructional advancements at the junior-senior high school level, enhancing student learning, increasing differentiation within the general education classroom, and supporting an MTSS-approach.
3. Addressing student social-emotional health by:
- Increasing the level of counseling support for 10-12 grade students and expanding the career and college programming through the hiring of an additional high school counselor.
4. Providing adequate resources to English language learners, students with disabilities, and students experiencing homelessness by:
- Providing special education teacher training and support and reducing the ratio for chairing initial committee on special education meetings in order to provide consistent support and follow through for students, teachers, and parents through the creation of a new CPSE/CSE Coordinator position.
- Strengthening and bolstering the integrated co-teach model for students with disabilities through the creation of a new 0.8 FTE elementary special education teaching position and support for an additional 0.7 FTE junior-senior high school special education teaching assignment.
2023-2024 School Year
Foundation Aid
Edgemont is set to receive and increase of $1,328,434 in Foundation Aid (the largest category of state aid received by the district) in the 2023-2024 school year. Through the budget development process and solicited feedback from stakeholders, the district intends to spend these funds in the following areas:
1. Providing supports for students who are not meeting, or at risk of not meeting, state learning standards in core academic subject areas
• Create a new instructional position – Instructional Interventionalist ($200,000 of which $143,852 is allocated as part of the Foundation Aid set aside)
• Adopt a new MTSS software platform - Panorama ($33,275)
• Adopt a new phonemic awareness and phonics instructional program - Heggerty ($12,100)
• Partner with consultants to support instruction and interventions - Amplify, MiF, Science21, SOMOS, STAR, etc. ($25,000)
2. Addressing student social-emotional health
• Create three new non-instructional positions - security personnel ($180,000)
• Adopt a new MTSS software platform – Panorama
3. Providing adequate resources to English language learners, students with disabilities, and students experiencing homelessness
• Increase allocations related to indirect special education supports - conferences, supplies, consultants, testing and membership expenses ($57,395)
4. Funding current initiatives such as our District Goal and capital improvements
• Allocate funds to necessary capital work (e.g., Seely Place window replacements, Greenville library window replacement and related work, and Greenville tennis court restoration) via a transfer to capital ($899,864 of the $2,443,600 proposed transfer)