TENNESSEE
BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM BEP 2.0
2010-11
State Board of Education
9th Floor, Andrew Johnson Tower
710 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, TN 37243-1050
October, 2010
This booklet lists the Basic Education Program (BEP) components and the cost specifications for each component. The components include both operating and capital outlay costs.
The BEP components serve as the basis for calculating the level of funding for each school system. These components represent the level of support necessary for our schools to succeed. The components serve as the basis for calculating the level of BEP funding for each school system; the BEP does not prescribe specific levels of expenditures for individual components. Actual costs of the essential components are monitored and updated from year to year. Total costs are calculated by applying cost specifications to schools census data.
Equity adjustments (cost of operations adjustment and fiscal capacity adjustment) equalize responsibility among the local school systems based on variations in the cost of delivering services to students and in relative fiscal capacity.
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Mr. Fielding Rolston, Chairman
Mr. Jim Ayers
Mr. Flavius Barker
Ms. Vernita Justice
Miss Mary Katherine McMillan (student member)
Ms. Carolyn Pearre
Mr. Richard Ray
Dr. Jean Anne Rogers
Dr. Valerie Rutledge
Ms. Teresa Sloyan
Dr. Melvin Wright, Sr.
Dr. Richard Rhoda, THEC, (ex officio)
Dr. Gary L. Nixon, Executive Director
SALARIES USED IN BEP CALCULATIONS
Teachers and Other Licensed Personnel
The BEP allocation for salaries for each school system is based on:
- The number of each type of position generated by the cost components
- The current salary unit cost for instructional personnel = 38,000
- Average annual superintendent salary = $91,600 per county
Other Personnel
- Average annual library/instructional assistant salary = $19,000
- Average annual custodian salary = $20,500
- Average annual school secretary salary = $26,800
- Average annual system secretary salary = $34,300
FOOTNOTES
* If a system within a county having more than one system does not have enough pupils to qualify for a position, the relevant county totals are used and each system receives a pro rata share based on its proportion of total relevant enrollment. If county totals are not sufficient to generate a position, the county is allocated one position and each system is allocated a pro rata share of the position based on its proportion of the relevant enrollment.
**Elementary schools < 100 are not allocated a principal.
***One superintendent is allocated for each county. If there is more than one school system in a county, each system receives a pro rata share based on its proportion of total county ADM.
****For purposes of calculating benefits and insurance: for maintenance add 60% of sq. ft. cost to salary allocation; for pupil transportation add 45% of amount to salary allocation. Apply calculated rate (ins, FICA, TCRS) for classified personnel as specified to 50% or 45% of allocation, respectively.
COMPONENT | FUNDING LEVEL |
PRINCIPALS | .5 per school < 225** |
ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS | .5 per school 660-879 |
ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS | .5 per school 300-649 |
SYSTEM-WIDE | 1 per < 500 total ADM |
SPECIAL EDUCATION | 1 per 750 special education I & S |
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION | 1 per 1,000 vocational education FTEADM |
SPECIAL EDUCATION | 1 per 600 special education I & S |
SOCIAL WORKERS | 1 per 2,000 total ADM* |
PSYCHOLOGISTS | 1 per 2,500 total ADM* |
SPECIAL EDUCATION EARLY | Early intervention services for 3-year-old children with disabilities. Now allocated through count of special education I & S |
STAFF BENEFITS AND | $4,665.26 per BEP position for insurance; plus 7.65% of BEP salary for FICA. Add 9.05% of BEP salary per licensed position OR 10.52% of BEP salary per classified position for TCRS |
CLASSROOM COMPONENTS (STATE SHARE = 75%)
COMPONENT | FUNDING LEVEL |
K-12 AT-RISK CLASS SIZE | Based on 1:15 class size reduction for grades K-12, estimated at $509.46 per identified at-risk ADM. Funded at 100% at-risk. |
DUTY-FREE LUNCH | $10.25 per total ADM |
TEXTBOOKS | $76.75 per total ADM |
CLASSROOM MATERIALS & | $ 72.00 per regular ADM |
INSTRUCTIONAL EQUIPMENT | $64.25 per regular ADM |
CLASSROOM RELATED TRAVEL | $10.75 per regular ADM |
VOCATIONAL CENTER | For participating systems to transport students to vocational center attended part of the day |
TECHNOLOGY | $TBD per total ADM (Approx. $21.08) |
NURSES | 1 per 3,000 total ADM (min. + 1 per system) |
INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS | 1 per 75 ADM K-6 |
SPECIAL EDUCATION | 1 per 60 special education |
SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS | $56.00 per total ADM |
ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS | $ 3.30 per total ADM K-12 plus $28.25 per ADM 7-12 (including voc ed) |
NON-CLASSROOM COMPONENTS (STATE SHARE = 50%)
COMPONENT | FUNDING LEVEL |
SUPERINTENDENT | 1 per county*** |
SYSTEM SECRETARIAL | 1 per system < 500 |
TECHNOLOGY | 1 per system with one additional for each 6,400 ADM |
SCHOOL SECRETARIES | .5 per school < 225 |
MAINTENANCE & | 100 square feet per total K-4 ADM |
NON- INSTRUCTIONAL | $18.75 per total ADM |
PUPIL TRANSPORTATION | Allocated to systems that provide transportation. Formula established by Commissioner of Education. Based on number of pupils transported, miles transported, and density of pupils per route mile |
STAFF BENEFITS AND | $4,354.24 per classified BEP position for insurance; plus 7.65% of BEP salary for FICA. Add 9.05% of BEP salary per Superintendent and technology coordinator OR 10.52% of BEP salary per classified position for TCRS |
CAPITAL OUTLAY | 100 sq ft per total K-4 ADM x $121/sq ft |
INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENTS (STATE SHARE = 70%)
COMPONENT | FUNDING LEVEL |
REGULAR EDUCATION | 1 per 20 ADM K-3 |
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION | 1 per 16.67 vocational education FTEADM |
SPECIAL EDUCATION | (Caseload Allocations) |
ELEMENTARY GUIDANCE | 1 per 500 ADM K-6* |
SECONDARY GUIDANCE | 1 per 350 ADM 7-12 (including voc ed)* |
ELEMENTARY ART | 1 per 525 ADM K-6 |
ELEMENTARY MUSIC | 1 per 525 ADM K-6 |
ELEMENTARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION | 1 per 350 ADM K-4 |
ELEMENTARY LIBRARIANS | .5 per school < 265 |
SECONDARY LIBRARIANS | .5 per school < 300 |
ELL INSTRUCTORS | 1 per 30 ELL Students I&S |
ELL TRANSLATORS | 1 per 300 ELL Students I&S |