Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
17:407.21 et seq., and
R.S.
17:407.91 et
seq.
