Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Definition. As used in this section,
eligible local educational agency means a board of cooperative educational
services or the trustees or board of education of a public school district,
except that the board of education of a community school district within the
City of New York shall not be an eligible local educational agency unless its
participation in the demonstration program is authorized by the board of
education of the city school district of the City of New York.
(b) Program components. The comprehensive
school health education demonstration program established pursuant to section
804-a of the Education Law shall be
limited to health education in grades K through 6 and shall consist of the
following components:
(1) Developer grants
for comprehensive school health education programs.
(i) Developer grants may be awarded to
eligible local educational agencies for the development, implementation, and
evaluation of a comprehensive health education program, including such
activities as:
(a) coordination of health
instruction with other available programs in the school and community related
to health education;
(b) provision
of in-service training and materials for elementary level school teachers in
comprehensive health education;
(c)
development and implementation of evaluation procedures to measure students'
knowledge, skills, behaviors and attitudes prior to and after program
implementation; and
(d) development
and implementation of a mechanism for project maintenance and long-range
programming.
(ii)
Subject to the availability of funds, recipients of developer grants who
successfully complete the development, implementation and evaluation of a
program in accordance with subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall be required
to assist other eligible local educational agencies with replication of such
program.
(2) Health
education regional training centers. Grants may be awarded to eligible local
educational agencies for participation in the establishment of health education
regional training centers for the purpose of developing materials and providing
training programs to meet the needs of teachers in the implementation of
comprehensive school health education programs at the elementary
level.
(3) Statewide advocacy
program. Grants may be awarded to eligible local educational agencies for
participation in the development and implementation of a statewide advocacy
program, to create an awareness on the part of school administrators of the
need to develop strategies for implementing comprehensive school health
education programs at the elementary level.
(4) Replication grants. Grants may be awarded
to eligible local educational agencies for the replication of an elementary
level health education program which has been validated by the National
Diffusion Network, or which is consistent with the State syllabus in health
education and has been approved by the commissioner for the purpose of this
section.
(c) Grant
applications. An eligible local educational agency desiring to participate in
the program shall submit for approval a grant application in a form and by the
date prescribed by the commissioner to implement one or more of the program
components set forth in paragraphs (b)(1)-(4) of this section. The grant
application shall set forth so much of the following information with respect
as is appropriate to the program components for which funding is requested:
(1) the specific need for the
program;
(2) the specific goals and
objectives to be achieved;
(3) the
schools and grades to be served within the public school district, board of
cooperative educational services or community school district;
(4) the specific services to be
provided;
(5) the number and types
of participants to be served;
(6) a
description of the health curriculum and/or materials to be developed,
implemented, evaluated and/or replicated and the manner in which this will be
accomplished;
(7) the type of
in-service training or advocacy functions to be conducted;
(8) a description of any proposed
contractual/consultant arrangements;
(9) evaluation strategies to be
undertaken;
(10) a description of
how the program will be coordinated with existing resources and services in the
school and community;
(11) a
description of how long-range planning will be instituted for program
continuance;
(12) a description of
how the program will be replicated, if appropriate;
(13) other information determined by the
commissioner to be essential to the operation of the program; and
(14) a proposed first-year budget, including
staffing needs.
(d) No
grant to a local educational agency shall exceed $200,000 per school
year.
(e) Allowable costs. Grant
funds shall be used solely for allowable costs of the comprehensive school
health education program. In no case shall the cost of services already
required of, or currently provided by, the local educational agency as of the
effective date of this section be considered allowable costs for the purposes
of this section. Allowable costs may include:
(1) Salaries of certified teachers including
health educators, elementary classroom teachers, and school nurse-teachers;
administrators, including health coordinators; curriculum and training
specialists; and noninstructional support personnel;
(2) employee benefits;
(3) teacher in-service training costs,
including stipends and substitute pay;
(4) contractual and consultant costs,
including staff development, curriculum development, coordination activities,
evaluation, travel expense, rental of space, and other services designed to
achieve program goals and objectives;
(5) supplies and materials;
(6) instructional equipment;
(7) rental of other related
equipment;
(8) library and computer
professional and student resources and materials;
(9) reasonable costs of evaluation;
(10) curriculum development
activities;
(11)
replication;
(12) travel essential
to program goals and objectives;
(13) a maximum five-percent overhead
allowance;
(14) program costs
related to printing, duplication and communication; and
(15) other costs determined to be essential
to program goals and objectives, as approved by the commissioner.
(f) Termination of grant. The
commissioner may terminate a grant at any time when in the judgment of the
commissioner a program is not meeting the purposes of this section.
(g) Reports and records.
(1) Each participating local educational
agency shall:
(i) file an interim report with
the commissioner on or before December 31st of the current year of funding and
a final report on or before July 15th of the school year next following the
current year, containing such information as the commissioner may
require;
(ii) file an annual
evaluation report by a date prescribed by the commissioner, which contains such
information as the commissioner may require; and
(iii) notify the department of any change in
professional staff, program design or ability to meet stated goals and
objectives.
(2)
Financial records shall be maintained.
(3) All programs shall be subject to the
general supervision of the commissioner and the department who shall have the
right to examine the facilities, operations and records relating to such
program at any time.