Appendix H - Grant Assurances

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The LEA assures the Commission that if awarded grant funding:

1. The LEA will respond and comply with the Commission’s mandated annual reporting requirements for data collection, evaluation, and reporting.
2. LEA applicants will verify that each candidate satisfies all of the following requirements according to CL-574c, the Administrative Services Credential requirements.
3. The LEA will not charge a sponsored candidate a fee to participate in the Diverse Education Leaders Pipeline Initiative program.
4. The LEA will require all administrator candidates to agree in writing to serve in a school within the jurisdiction of the grant recipient that sponsored the candidate or another public school in California for a period of at least two school years. The administrator candidate shall also commit in the written agreement to annually report to their sponsoring local educational agency where they are employed and their current contact information until they have completed their service requirement. Upon receiving the preliminary administrator credential, the administrator candidate has four years to complete the two-year service requirement.
5. The LEA may recover from a sponsored candidate who fails to earn an administrator credential, or who fails to complete the period of placement, the amount of grant funding invested in the administrator candidate’s training. The amount to be recovered shall be adjusted proportionately to reflect the service provided if the administrator candidate served at least one year, but less than two years, at a public school in California.
6. The LEA will communicate with the Commission if more than 10 percent of sponsored candidates in the LEA’s yearly program cohort failed to earn an administrator credential or failed to meet their commitment pursuant to legislation. The Commission shall confirm with the grant recipient the applicable grant amount to be recovered from the grant recipient based on the number of candidates who failed to earn a credential or meet their administrator commitment above a 10 percent attrition rate.