Part B of Title VI of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 authorizes the Secretary of Education to award funds under two separate formula grant programs designed to address the unique needs of rural school districts.

* Under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, the Secretary awards grants directly to eligible LEAs.

* Under the Rural and Low-Income School Program, the Secretary awards grants to the State, which, in turn, award
    sub grants to eligible LEAs on a formula basis.

Since the data on the spreadsheet will affect all State and LEA allocations, the U. S. Department of Education has urged us to provide LEAs with an opportunity to verify the data on the Excel spreadsheet prior to the submission of the data. The deadline to submit changes to this spreadsheet is April 23, 2007. Please e-mail your changes to Pat.Kaiser@dese.mo.gov.

For your convenience, we have prepared a list that identifies districts whose eligibility for one of these two grants has changed between school year 2006-07 to 2007-08. This list is located at the same web site listed above. The name of the file is "SRSA Changes for 2007-2008."

We are not able to provide allocation estimates for the 2007-2008 school year at this time. We will provide these estimates as soon as we receive additional data from the US Department of Education.

If you have questions, please contact Pat Kaiser at 573-751-8643.