PARENT SUPPORT REIMBURSEMENTS
PARENT SUPPORT REIMBURSEMENT ALLOWANCE
Each student enrolled full-time for the full school year at P.A.R.A.D.E (Parents and Riverview Actively Delivering Education) will be eligible for an annual Learning Reimbursement Allowance.
Parents or Guardians of students in grades one through twelve are eligible to be reimbursed up to $240.00 per year and Parents of kindergartners are eligible to be reimbursed up to $120.00 per year for curriculum and resources necessary to complete the student learning plan (SLP). Each quarter you have access to one fourth of the allowance. This allowance is in place to assist the parent educator in accomplishing the goals set forth in the written SLP.
P.A.R.A.D.E prorates the reimbursements by quarter for those students entering the program after the first day of the school year. The student must be enrolled by the first school day of a given quarter to receive reimbursement for that quarter.
Quarter end dates are:
1st QTR October 30, 2009
2nd QTR January 21, 2010
3rd QTR March 25, 2010
4th QTR June 16, 2010 **
** The last day to submit Reimbursement Request Forms is May 1, 2010.
When requesting a parent support reimbursement, please consider:
· ALL purchases must be pre-approved by your student’s conferencing teacher or other authorized school staff.
· Is the item necessary to complete your student’s learning plan?
· Is it recorded in the “Activities and Resources” section of your student’s learning plan?
· Is the reimbursement request, if approved, a responsible use of public dollars?
· All books, curriculum materials, and supplies listed as resources required to support the subject goal(s) in the student learning plan (SLP) and approved by the SLP teacher prior to purchase, e.g., curriculum, general supplies*, software, books, manipulatives)
· Field trip admission for the enrolled student(s) (e.g., museums, plays, event admission). Again, the costs must directly support learning activities that are necessary to accomplish a goal specified in the written student learning plan, and must be approved by the SLP teacher prior to purchase.
· Sectarian materials of any kind and/or materials that promote one religion over another.
· An expensive version of a simpler item (e.g., model airplane)
· Memberships, e.g., MAC, YWCA/YMCA, etc.
· Registration in any religiously affiliated organization
· Uniforms, e.g., sports, band, graduation cap and gown
· Sports equipment
· Sports participation fees
· Backpacks
· Driver’s Education fees
· Private lessons or activities, e.g., Wilderness Awareness School, Gymnastics, Music Lessons, Tae Kwon Do.
· Textbooks for Running Start
· Tickets for fun centers or amusement parks, e.g., Wild Waves, Silverwood, etc.
· Fees for class group parties or outings unless strictly educational
· Animals – even if they are part of a science experiment
· Musical instruments/supplies such as guitar strings, reeds, metronomes, etc.
· Dues to organizations such as Scouts, Camp Fire, etc.
· Computer supplies such as ink cartridges, system upgrades, etc.
*Non-consumable school supplies like binders, pencil boxes, etc. are not reimbursable.
These lists are not comprehensive. An item not listed here may or may not be reimbursable. Please check with the teacher responsible for your written student learning plan to be sure before you make a purchase.
All non-consumable items that are approved for reimbursement become the property of the school district and must be returned at the end of year to the ALE program. These items will then be available to all students for check-out at the beginning of the next school year.
Consumable: A consumable item is one that has a one time only use and cannot reasonably be returned for future use by other students, e.g., a ticket to a museum, a workbook.
Non-consumable: A non-consumable item is one that can be returned for use by others, e.g., a CD, a book, software, skeletal model. These must be returned to the school at the end of the year.