State-Flex & Local-Flex Events

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Awareness Event #1

What can Local-Flex do for you? One district's story
(Audio Interview and PowerPoint)
Date: Available Now!

Jay Iman, Grants Manager from Seattle Public Schools, will explain Seattle's approach to Local-Flex via an audio interview and a PowerPoint presentation. The Local-Flex demonstration program represents another tool that Seattle Public Schools can use in combination with other tools to assist students who are at risk of not meeting state standards and to assist schools eliminate achievement gaps in student performance.

Jay will address the following questions in his interview:

1. Why did the Seattle Public Schools elected to apply for Local-Flex authority?
2. What has consolidating Local-Flex funds allowed you to do that you wouldn't have been able to do otherwise?
3. What benefits has Seattle experienced during its first year in this program?

Awareness Event #2

One School District's Experience with Local-Flex - The Seattle Success Story
Archive of a Horizon Wimba Webcast ... online event, held 12/1/04

On the 1st of December 2004 NEIRTEC and WestEd’s SchoolsMovingUp featured a free online event, "One School District’s Experience with Local-Flex – The Seattle Success Story."

Description of Event

With regard to the No Child Left Behind Act, there is often talk about how prescriptive it can be. This interactive presentation with Jay Iman, Grant Manager and Jane Goetz, Director of Curriculum and Professional Development, both from the Seattle Public Schools, provided practical information on the Local-Flex provision available to districts interested in maximum funding flexibility through consolidation of certain local-level federal funds they already receive, to fulfill any educational purposes under the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act, reauthorized in 2001 as the No Child Left Behind Act.

The flexibility goes beyond that provided with Ed-Flex and Transferability.

Awareness Event #3

Local-Flex Expert Panel - Online Discussion Forum
Date: Available Now!

Join in an on-line discussion forum with Seattle Public Schools’ representatives (Jay Iman, Grants Manager, Jane Goetz, Director of Curriculum and Professional Development, and Sandra Scott, Seattle Schools Elementary Principal) as they answer your questions and share their experiences. Converse with other participants and read responses about Local-Flex.

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