As a district that receives Title I funding, EVSC has to follow several federal guidelines. Ed-Flex is a program through the U.S. Department of Education that allows school districts to apply to waive some requirements that may make it difficult to improve student achievement.
Waiver 1
EVSC is applying to continue a waiver regarding requirements for paraprofessionals (instructional assistants) who work in our schools. Rather than requiring two years of college or passing a para-pro assessment, EVSC wishes to provide training that is relevant to the job for our assistants. This improves our pool of applicants and allows us to provide job specific training for our staff
Waiver 2
As a part of our Title IV grant, EVSC wishes to waive the requirement that a certain percentage of the grant be spent on technology. EVSC has other funding sources available for technology and wants to spend these funds on the other areas of the grant, providing innovative programming for students and creating safe and healthy schools.
Please provide any public comment you may have regarding these waiver requests. (Note that your comments will be made public as a part of the required waiver process.)
EVSC Ed-Flex Waiver Public Input Form
EVSC Ed-Flex Waiver Responses