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Board removes formative assessment grant from agenda after missing IDOE award letter
Summary
Trustees declined to approve a $22,798.44 formative assessment grant memorandum at a Oct. 9 School City of East Chicago work session because the district had not yet received an award letter from the Indiana Department of Education, and the board cited State Board of Accounts guidance requiring written award notification.
The School City of East Chicago board of trustees removed the formative assessment grant (agenda item 6.01) from Tuesday’s work-session agenda after trustees said the district had not produced an Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) award letter confirming the grant.
Trustee Diane Smith raised the requirement that, under guidance from the Indiana State Board of Accounts, the board must have an official award letter before approving memoranda related to state or federal funds. The district’s staff said the IDOE posts award amounts in an online database and that a memorandum…
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