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Budget Expenditure Deadline – for All Administrators
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Kansas Transition to Teaching Grant – for All Administrators
Aesop – Leave Type Updates – for All Administrators
State Assessment Training – Identify Building Test Coordinator – for All Principals
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Budget Expenditure Deadline
From Robert Young
The expenditure deadline for the 2016-17 school year is March 1, 2017. This means all requisitions for expenditures of non-salary accounts must be entered into the District’s financial software and approved by the budget manager no later than 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. This includes:
Mileage reimbursement claims
Travel reimbursement claims
District procurement card (Visa) payments
Printing/Copying requests
Field Trip costs (including transportation)
End of year in-service costs
Activities reimbursements
Supplies
Equipment
If you do not know the exact cost of items that may be needed after March 1 (i.e. mileage reimbursements, travel costs, field trips, etc.), you MUST estimate the costs and encumber the funds prior to the deadline. The requisition will be encumbered in the system in the same manner as all other purcahse orders. After the event occurs, receive the purchase order on-line and send the actual invoice or receipts, mileage form, travel reimbursement, voucher, etc. to the Purchasing/Accounts Payable Department. If you have any questions, please contact the Purchasing Department at 279-2243.
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Kansas Transition to Teaching Grant
From Shelly Beech
Administrators,
Please share the information below with any individual you feel may be a good candidate for the KTTT grant opportunity. Thanks
Kansas State University’s new Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)–an intensive, one-year, online degree specifically designed for people who have already earned a bachelor???s degree but want to pursue elementary teaching???allows school districts to ???grow their own teachers.??? Field experiences are arranged in an accredited school near the student???LIKE YOURS. In addition to earning their MAT, students are recommended for K-6 teaching license upon successful completion of the program.
The Kansas Board of Regents will fund 30 Kansas Transitions to Teaching Fellowships ($6,000.00???roughly 1/3 of the total tuition and fees) for admitted students from western Kansas (KBOE Area 5), KCK, Wichita, and Topeka. The fellowships will be applied to tuition/fees for Kansas State University’s Master of Arts in Teaching Program (MAT).
The MAT was recently featured on Action News 41 in Kansas City: http://www.kshb.com/news/state/kansas/new-k-state-program-to-help-fill-need-for-elementary-school-teachers
The director of the MAT, Dr. Tom Vontz, will host an online interactive information session on Thursday, February 2. Interested students can go to: https://ksu.zoom.us/j/761809169. Zoom may be downloaded to any device at ZOOM.
Please forward this email to staff, parents, and/or others in your service area that might be interested in this opportunity such as long-term subs without certification, paras with undergraduate degrees, or parents interested in becoming elementary teachers.
Application deadline is APRIL 1, 2017. Priority deadline for KTTT Fellowships is MARCH 1, 2017.
If you want more information you may call 785-532-5724, email (rboggs@ksu.edu), or visit our website http://global.k-state.edu/education/mateaching/ .
Flyer PDF
Aesop – Leave Type Updates
From Amy Jo Troyer
We???ve received some great feedback from our administrators regarding the various leave requests they are seeing in Aesop and have identified some areas of improvement. Please accept this as notice that we have adjusted the following leave types for the following reasons:
Personal Leave ??? a ???reason??? is required to submit the leave. The purpose for this is to prevent Personal Leave requests from being automatically denied solely based on date submitted if there is relevant information to share with HR about the request. The reason may be as simple as ???personal leave??? or may be as detailed as the employee chooses to make it.
Bereavement Leave ??? the name of the deceased and relationship to the employee is required to submit the leave. Bereavement Leave may only be approved for the death of an immediate family member. From Board policy, ???Immediate Family??? is defined as the employee???s: spouse, children, parents, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts and uncles. ???Immediate Family??? also includes the parents, grandparents, grandchildren and siblings of employee???s spouse.
Professional Leave ??? the name of the Professional Development event is now required to submit the leave. This ensures that approvals are being managed appropriately and employees cannot select this leave by mistake without being prompted to enter more information.
State Assessment Training – Identify Building Test Coordinator
From David Rand
Training for this year’s state assessment will be provided to secondary schools on February 7th and elementary schools on February 21st. Schools will receive further details about these meetings from the Executive Directors. Each school will need to identify a building test coordinator prior to the day of training that will also need to attend. Detailed information and documentation that will be reviewed in these trainings for the state assessment will be sent to schools by Friday, February 3rd. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you very much!!!!!