salaries

Literacy Coach: $30,000;
classroom substitutes for training: $55 a day x 4 days x 14 teachers = $2640;
professional development stipends; 20 after school meetings x I hour x $20 x 14  teachers = $5600;
training sessions (3 days in summer, 2 Saturdays): 5 days x 8 hours x $20 x 14  teachers = $11,200
	total

$49,440	
employee benefits: Literacy Coach

FICA  $0; 
medicare $420; 
retirement $3552;
health, life, dental $ 3569
other benefits	

$7541	
purchased services:

training: $29 x 14 teachers x 3 sessions = $1218;
literacy coach training: $79 x 3 sessions = $237;
food: 3 sessions x 3 days x $28 a day x 14 teachers = $3528;
mileage: 3 sessions x 3 days x 100 miles $0.29 per mile x 14 teachers = $3654;
lodging: 3 sessions x 3 days x $75 x 14 teachers = $9450; 

	

$18,087	
material and supplies    

Harcourt Trophies: Kindergarten: $7000; First grade: $18,000; Second Grade:  $14,000; Third Grade:  $13,000

Assessments: Terra Nova: $2,500; Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment—Second Edition $3000; WRMT-R/NU: Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised $5500

Library books: $10,000

Supplies:$500	

$73,000	
capital outlay: 

Literacy Coach computer, software, peripherals: $2700
Literacy Coach desk and chair: $400
File Cabinet: $300	

$3400	

											Total: $151,968

The projected enrollment for kindergarten through third grade for the2004 - 2005 school year is 131 students.  This projection leads to a calculated cost of $ 1182.76 per pupil.  The materials and supplies ordered allow for a maximum enrollment of 160 students, which would be a cost of $968.38 per pupil.  

The budget frequently refers to 14 teachers, which includes 8 classroom teachers (2 for each K-3 grade level), 2 Title I teachers, 1 special education teacher, 1 librarian, 1 administrator, and 1 literacy coach.

Salaries:
The proposed total salary and benefits for the literacy coach total $36,264, an amount determined to be within the means of the district if the position is no longer funded by the Reading First grant and becomes a district supported position.  The salaries portion of the budget allows $7590 for substitutes for the literacy coach and for substitutes for training sessions for 14 teachers/administrators for 3 days in the summer and 2 Saturdays during the school year.  These cost will be about the same or slightly more during the second and third years.
	
Purchased services include the cost of $18,087 for 3 sessions of training for the 14 staff members.  These cost include the cost of training materials, food, mileage, and lodging.  These costs will be about the same or slightly more during the second and third years.

Materials:
The core reading and language program chosen is Harcourt Trophies, a research-based, developmental reading/language arts program, with explicit phonics instruction, direct reading instruction, guided reading strategies, phonemic awareness instruction, systematic intervention strategies, and integrated language arts components.  The first year budget includes a selection of materials that adds up to $52,000, an amount that will certainly be discounted by Harcourt for the purchase of a large quantity.  

$7000 for the Kindergarten Program includes the Teaching Support and Phonics/Decoding Box: Teacher's Edition Collection; Read-Aloud Anthology; Assessment Handbook; Music CD; Teacher's Resource Book; Practice Book Collection; Picture Cards/Picture Word Card s; Big Alphabet Cards; Alphabet Cards; High-Frequency Word Cards; Phonics Practice Book; Phonics Practice Book Copying Masters; Magnetic Letters; Write-on/Wipe-off Board with Phonemic Awareness Disks; Tactile Letter Cards; Letters and Sounds Place Mat; Word Builder; Word Builder Cards; Big Book Collection; Little Book Collection; Big Book Audiotext Collection;  Library Book Collection; Pre-decodable/Decodable Books, Independent Readers Collection; Letter and Sounds Charts; and the Big Book of Rhymes and Songs. 

First through third grade funds, $18,000, $14,000, and $13,000 respectively, includes allocations for Pupil Editions, Little Books, Library Books Collection, Below-Level Books Collection,  On-Level Books Collection,  Advanced-Level Books Collection,  Decodable Books Collection, Phonics Practice Book, Practice Books, Standardized Test Preparation Book for Reading and Language Arts, Teacher's Editions, Audiocassette Collection, Big Book Collection, Big Book Audiotext Collection, Big Book of Rhymes, Read-Aloud Anthology, Phonics Practice Book Copying Masters, Picture Cards, Alphabet/Phonics Cards, Letter and Word Cards, Teaching Transparencies, Teaching Transparencies for Language Arts, Extra Support Copying Masters, Challenge Copying Masters, Word Builder Cards, and an Intervention Resource Kit, which includes the Below-Level Books Collection, Intervention Teacher's Guide, Intervention Practice Book Teacher’s Edition, Intervention Assessment Book, Alphabet Masters, Write-on/Write-off Board with Phonemic Awareness Disks, Word Builder, Word Builder Cards, Tactile Letter Cards, Picture Cards for Intervention, and Intervention Game Boards.  

Extra vocabulary and comprehension materials are included with the following Harcourt Trophies resources: Library Books Collection, Below-Level Books Collection, On-Level Books Collection, Advanced-Level Books Collection,  Decodable Books Collection, and Phonics Practice Book. 

Second and third year total budgets for the Harcourt materials will likely require less than $20,000 a year to replace consumable materials and add to library collections. 

Assessments:
Assessments costs of $11,000 includes the required testing materials for a minimum of 40 students per K-3 grade level.  The district selected assessment is the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised-Normative Update (WRMT-R/NU) , gives a test battery with a proven record of accuracy with target grade levels K–3. Based on scientific research and tested with years of actual classroom use, the WRMT-R/NU helps to:
-Identify specific children’s strengths and weaknesses in reading skills 
-Ascertain students’ difficulties and their root causes so that you can plan targeted remediation 
-Determine the reading strategies so that students with special needs can get needed help learning to read
Second  and third year assessment costs would be about $10,000 or less to purchase new test forms.  

Also included in the materials section of the budget is $10,000 for the purchase of appropriate reading materials.

Capital Outlay:
The capital outlay budget section allows for $3200 to provide for the literacy coach to purchase a computer with software and peripherals, a desk and chair, and file cabinet.

Other funds used to fund the reading first activities include federal Title I funds for:
salaries, texts, and supplies.

Second and Third Year Budget Summary:
Salaries: $54,000
Benefits: $8000
Purchased Services $19,000
Materials and supplies: $30,000
total: $111,000