Supplemental Educational Services
What are Supplemental Educational Services?
Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), students from low-income families attending schools that do not make adequate yearly progress for three consecutive years are eligible to receive Supplemental Educational Services (SES). School Districts are responsible for funding these services, which must be provided outside the normal school day, through their Title I, Part A funds. State education agencies must develop and apply objective criteria to create approved lists of SES providers.
What are the Goals of SES?
- To ensure that students increase eligible students' academic achievement, in a subject or subjects included in the state assessment system. Subjects must include reading/language arts, mathematics, and science as well as English language proficiency for students with limited English proficiency.
- To provide options to parents to help them ensure that their children receive a quality education.
- To provide incentives to districts to improve schools in need of improvement.
Who is eligible to receive Supplemental Educational Services?
Eligible students are all students from low-income families who attend Title I schools that are in their second year of school improvement, in corrective action, or in restructuring. Eligibility is not dependent on whether the student is a member of a subgroup that caused the school not to make AYP (Annual Yearly Progress) or whether the student is in a grade that takes the statewide assessments as required by Section 1111 of the ESEA.
If the funds available are insufficient to provide supplemental educational services to each eligible student whose parent requests those services, the LEA must give priority to providing services to the lowest-achieving eligible students. In this situation, the LEA should use objective criteria to determine the lowest-achieving students. For example, the LEA may focus services on the lowest-achieving eligible students in the subject area that caused the school to be identified. The services should be tailored to meet the instructional needs of eligible students in order to increase their academic achievement.
The amount that a district shall make available for each child at a school offering SES shall be the lesser of the Title I per pupil allocation for that school or the actual costs of the supplemental educational services received by the child.
Requirements & Responsibilities for Meeting the 20% Set Aside
Duration of Services
( Information is from NCLB, Title I Part A, 1116(e)(8)
The district shall continue to provide supplemental educational services to a child receiving SES tutoring until the end of the school year in which such services were first received.
New Providers
The Delaware Department of Education's Supplemental Education application process begins in the spring for the following school year.
The process is as follows:
- A new RFP is posted to the Department's web site: http://www.doe.k12.de.us
- An announcement of the RFP is posted in the Delaware State News and The News Journal.
- Applications are received. Hard copy format only.
- Applications are reviewed by a state review panel.
- New vendors are notified by June 15, 2010 of their inclusion to the State Approved Supplemental Education Service Provider List.
- State SES website is updated with new vendor information during the first week of August.
IMPORTANT DATES 2010-2011 School Year
RFP Post Date: March 2, 2010
RFP Due Date: April 12, 2010
RFP Review Period: April 19- May 21, 2010
Parents
- Accountability
- Questions for Families To Ask SES Providers
- Supplemental Educational Fact Sheet
- District Contacts NEW
- SES Provider Report Card New
Districts
- SES State Approved Vendor List 2009-2010 NEW
- SES Provider Report Card NEW
- SES Federal Non-Regulatory Guidance (Updated Version January 2009)
- SES Student Count Data Form NEW
- Recommended District Document Checklist NEW
- Giving Parents Options
- Envelope Stuffer
- Supplemental Educational Fact Sheet
- Information that must be included Parent Letter
- Sample Meeting Flyer
- Sample Parent Letter
- Sample Parent Post Card
- Sample Provider Selection Form
- Sample Radio Spot
- Sample Student Progress Forms
- Sample SES Vendor Contract
- Sample SES Vendor Contract (2)
- Sample District Satisfaction Survey
- Data Entry Manual 2009-2010 NEW
Contact information
Theresa Vendrzyk Kough
Delaware Department of Education
Telephone: (302) 857.3387
Fax: (302) 739-1780
