La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CLXVII-711

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section CLXVII-711 - Local Enrollment Coordinator

A. If the lead agency is not satisfactorily coordinating the duties and responsibilities of the community network pertaining to the community networks coordinated enrollment process, the department shall send written notification to the lead agency and all programs within the community network. The written notification shall identify the unsatisfactory performance issues and specify any corrective actions that may be required of the lead agency.

B. Within 30 calendar days of receiving such notice, the lead agency shall submit written certification to the department that corrective actions have been taken or are in the process of being taken and submit a timely implementation schedule for the departments approval.

C. If the lead agency does not respond in a timely or satisfactory manner or adhere to the implementation schedule approved by the department, the department may recommend that BESE terminate the lead agencys duties and responsibilities pertaining to coordinated enrollment and authorize a local enrollment coordinator for the community network.

D. A local enrollment coordinator is an entity authorized by BESE to assume responsibility for the services a lead agency is required to provide in coordinating the community networks coordinated enrollment process, as set forth in §309. B.1.b and §703-709

1. A local enrollment coordinator may be a state agency, including the department, a public school system, a nonprofit or for-profit corporation having an educational or social services mission, including but not limited to a nonprofit corporation of a philanthropic or policy nature, a Louisiana postsecondary education institution, or a nonprofit corporation established by the governing authority of a parish or municipality.

2. A local enrollment coordinator shall be authorized for a term no greater than five years.

3. A local enrollment coordinator authorized by BESE shall enter into a local enrollment coordinator agreement with the department.

4. If a local enrollment coordinator is authorized, the lead agencys allocation shall be reduced by, or the lead agency shall repay, an amount equal to that portion of the coordinated enrollment duties and responsibilities that remain outstanding.

E. If BESE terminates a lead agencys responsibilities pertaining to coordinated enrollment, but does not terminate the lead agencys approval to serve as the lead agency for the community network, the lead agency shall continue to serve as lead agency and coordinate all other duties and responsibilities of the community network.

F. Funding

1. For each local enrollment coordinator authorized by BESE, the department shall allocate not more than one percent of the public funds appropriated for each publicly-funded program in the community network to support the local enrollment coordinator.

2. The amount allocated from the funding for each publicly-funded site shall be proportionate to the number of publicly-funded children in the site enrolled by the local enrollment coordinator.

3. If an allocation cannot be made from a funding source to support the local enrollment coordinator, the amount established for that funding source to support the local enrollment coordinator shall be allocated from the remaining public funding sources in an amount proportionate to the number of children in each publicly-funded program enrolled by the local enrollment coordinator.

4. BESE shall not allocate additional funds to support local enrollment coordinators from any public funding source that has a per-child allocation or subsidy below the Louisiana average per-child allocation or subsidy for all programs included in the enrollment system.

G. Audit

1. A local enrollment coordinator shall annually submit to the department an independent financial audit conducted by a certified public accountant who has been approved by the legislative auditor. Such audit shall be accompanied by the auditors statement that the report is free of material misstatements. The audit shall be limited in scope to those records necessary to ensure that the local enrollment coordinator has used funds to perform required services, and it shall be submitted to the legislative auditor for review and investigation of any irregularities or audit findings.

2. The local early learning enrollment coordinator shall return to the state any funds that the legislative auditor determines were expended in a manner inconsistent with Louisiana law or BESE regulations.

3. The cost of such audit shall be paid by the department.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CLXVII-711

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 412593 (12/1/2015).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:407.21 et seq., and R.S. 17:407.91 et seq.