SACS2013ALL Software (Updated October 18, 2013) - Financial Reporting (CA Dept of Education)

SACS2013ALL Software (Updated October 18, 2013) - Financial Reporting (CA Dept of Education):

SACS2013ALL Software (Updated October 18, 2013)

Standardized Account Code Structure (SACS) financial reporting software used by local educational agencies in preparing budgets, interim reports, and year-end financial reports to the California Department of Education (CDE).

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The SACS2013ALL software contains the components necessary to prepare the 2013–14 budget and interim reports and the 2012–13 unaudited actual reports. This special October 18, 2013 updated version includes the minimum changes needed for the 2013–14 interim reports due to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). See the Details of SACS2013ALL Software Update section below for a description of changes. Note that the User Guide was not updated in this release. CDE is working through the remaining details of the new funding formula and will include additional LCFF-related changes in next year’s SACS2014 and SACS2014ALL software.

BEFORE INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE: 

YOU MUST FIRST EXPORT ALL DATA FROM YOUR EXISTING SACS2013ALL SOFTWARE,
FOR ALL REPORTING PERIODS,
BECAUSE THE DATA WILL BE PERMANENTLY DELETED.

The installation of this software first uninstalls your existing SACS2013ALL software (version 2013.2.0), permanently deleting all data that was imported or keyed, for all reporting periods. The deletion of the data is irreversible. We strongly recommend exporting all data from your existing SACS2013ALL software before installing this updated version. After the data is exported, the exported .dat files can later be used to import the data into the updated SACS2013ALL software (version 2013.2.1).

sacs2013allsetup2.exe (EXE; 29MB)

Before beginning the download, export all data, for all reporting periods, from your existing SACS2013ALL software. Store the exported .dat files in any known subdirectory other than C:\SACS2013ALL.

Identify (or create) a clean subdirectory into which you will download the sacs2013allsetup2.exe zipped file. Right-click on the sacs2013allsetup2.exe link above, select "save link as" (or "save target as" or "copy to folder"), then select the subdirectory into which the sacs2013allsetup2.exe file will be downloaded.

Once the file has been downloaded, use Windows Explorer to find the sacs2013allsetup2.exe file, then double-click on the file and follow the prompts to install the software.

When the SACS software is installed on your computer, the financial reporting calendars and the SACS Software User Guide will be automatically copied into your C:\SACS2013ALL\Calendars and Manuals subdirectory. To find the financial reporting calendars and the SACS2013ALL Software User Guide, use Windows Explorer and navigate to your C:\SACS2013ALL\Calendars and Manuals subdirectory. In addition, to help make the software easier to use, the SACS Software User Guide is accessible from the Help menu and also from within the forms and processes in the software by pressing F1.

Import your stored .dat files into the newly installed SACS2013ALL software.

Note Regarding Windows 7: Some users have reported problems running the SACS software on Windows 7 PCs. A workaround has been posted to the SACS2013ALL Software: Known Problems/Fixes Web page.

The sacs2013setup2.exe file above contains the most current validation tables at the time the software was released, dated October 18, 2013. Any subsequent validation table updates will need to be downloaded and added to the software. TheValidation Tables page contains software update instructions.

Details of SACS2013ALL Software Update

The following describes the changes made to the SACS2013ALL Software October 18, 2013 update. This updated version includes the minimum changes needed for the 2013–14 interim reports due to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). Note that only the interim reporting periods were modified, and the User Guide was not updated to reflect these changes. CDE is working through the remaining details of the new funding formula and will include additional LCFF-related changes in next year’s SACS2014 and SACS2014ALL software.

Global Changes:

• Added "LCFF/" to "Revenue Limit" descriptions.

Revised Fund Forms:

• Forms 01I, 09I, and 62I—Other State Revenue section. Added detail line for the following reinstated resource and removed it from the All Other State Revenue line, Object 8590:
  • Resource 7370, Supplementary Programs: Specialized Secondary (formerly included in the flexibility provisions of SBx3 4 [Charter 12, Statutes of 2009], as amended by SB 70 [Charter 7, Statutes of 2011], but not made part of LCFF)
    
• Forms 09I and 62I—LCFF/Revenue Limit Sources section. Added line for Object 8011, State Aid – Current Year
  
• Forms 11I and 14I—Opened LCFF/Revenue Limit Sources section and added the following lines:
  • Object 8091, LCFF/Revenue Limit Transfers – Current Year
  • Object 8099, Revenue Limit Transfers – Prior Years

Deleted Supplemental Forms:

• Form JUV—Juvenile Court and County Community Schools Account
  Discontinued this form, effective 2013–14 interims.
  
• Forms RLI, RLICC, and RLIDC—Revenue Limit Summary
  Discontinued these forms, effective 2013–14 interims.

Revised Supplemental Forms:

• Form MYPI—Multiyear Projections 
  Section A, Revenues and Other Financing Sources
  Removed all the detail lines of Line 1, LCFF/Revenue Limit Sources, and unlocked subsequent years 1 and 2 to allow key entry. Applies to districts only.

Revised Criteria and Standards:

• Form 01CSI—Criteria and Standards Review
  Average Daily Attendance (ADA) Criterion 1
  Section 1A Calculating the District's ADA Variances: Modified the First Interim column (2nd column) to no longer extract ADA from forms RLI and MYPI, and unlocked to allow key entry. Applies to districts only.

Technical Review Checks—Deleted:

• Deleted the following technical review checks (TRCs) related to Form RLI/RLICC/RLIDC, for interims:
  • RL-CALC
  • RL-CALC-C
  • RL-LOCAL-REVENUES
  • RL-PERS-REDUCTION
  • RL-PERS-REDUCTION-C
  • RL-STATE-AID-NET
  • RL-STATE-AID-EPA
  • RL-SUPP-PROVIDE
  • PERS-REDUCTION
    
• Deleted the following TRCs related to Form JUV, for interims:
  • JUV-END-BAL
  • JUV-CAP-OUTLAY

Reflection from the 10.10.13 Student Voice Design Lounge Student Voice

Student Voice:

Reflection from the 10.10.13 Student Voice Design Lounge 

The Design Lounge hosted by Student Voice and made possible by Dell & Intel, was a huge success! The gathering of many student-led and student-serving initiatives that engaged in casual salon-style conversations, lead to a night of much collaboration, connections and calls to action! Check out this link for pictures from the event and the brief reflection below, with thought-provoking questions for your consideration.

About the Author: Clement Coulston is a leader driven by passion ensuring all youth are authentically engaged as valuable assets in co-creating positive social change for today AND tomorrow. He co-facilitated the 2013 Special Olympics Global Youth Activation Summit in Korea, which gathered eighty young people from over twenty countries through leading collaborative workshops to advance the values of dignity and inclusion for all people. In June 2013, Clem became an Inclusive Youth Leadership Development Intern for Project UNIFY at Special Olympics International headquarters in Washington, D.C. He is continuing his internship to provide support and implementation of a Guidebook he co-authored this summer. Coulston has co-created the Delaware Kids Inspiring Kids Self-Determination Curriculum, supporting transition age youth on how to self-advocate and develop self-determination skills. For the National School Climate Center he co-authored a Practice Brief for students and educators on how best to provide and promote School Climate and Inclusion. Clement joined Student Voice through participating in weekly #StuVoice Twitter Chats and was recently appointed a Director of Community Engagement. Clement is a Teacher Education major at the University of Delaware. Follow Clem on Twitter @Clementc26!

- See more at: http://stuvoice.org/blog/2013/10/22/reflection-from-the-10-10-13-student-voice-design-lounge/?utm_source=feedly#sthash.52k0HEWc.dpuf

K-12 News Network | Let’s Have A One-to-One Chat

K-12 News Network | Let’s Have A One-to-One Chat:

Let’s Have A One-to-One Chat

admin October 22, 2013 Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry 0

Guest post by Roberta Eidman, MPH, a Los Angeles community member.

On October 29th, the LAUSD School Board will review Superintendent John Deasy’s controversial One-to-One i-Pad initiative.  Parents, teacher and press have criticized the project for its $1B price tag, use of bond funding, security glitches and absence of instructional planning.  Still, Deasy is determined to forge ahead into Phase II, with no time out to learn from Phase I.

Let’s hope Deasy can present more than a plea to civil rights. He should attend a Special Common Core Technology Project Ad Hoc Committee meetingon Tuesday October 22nd, at 5:30 PM.  It’s an open meeting, the public is welcome.

I wanted to learn how 1:1 projects are going in other states, so I did some research. 1:1 initiatives are key components of America’s drive toward data-driven pedagogy, standardized testing and Common Core State Standards. One-to-One has been around for a while, evolving as tech evolved. Back in the day, 1:1 meant laptops; then notebooks. Now it can be any number of handhelds from competing vendors. Devices come with proprietary apps from developers angling for a share of the immense academic marketplace.

The numbers are staggering, spurred along by NCLB and RT3 incentives. Here is balloon map of recent 1:1 i-Pad deployments (the LAUSD purchase of 600,000 units is not included).  I’ve found estimates online for HP and Android deployments too.

1:1 projects are a Gold Mine for corporations. The up-front price is impressive; devices have short lives and software changes continually, so repeat orders and updates are frequent. The private sector is well served. Are students and teachers equally well served?

Join Us Wednesday Night For Our Third Connected Educator Month Twitter Chat | Connected Principals

Join Us Wednesday Night For Our Third Connected Educator Month Twitter Chat | Connected Principals:

Join Us Wednesday Night For Our Third Connected Educator Month Twitter Chat

October 22, 2013

By Patrick Larkin

Please join us tomorrow night from 8-9 p.m. EST as we host our third Twitter chat of the month on #cpchat.  We are excited to continue our month-long collaborative effort with the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Elementary School Principals as we celebrate Connected Educator Month and National Principals Month.

This week’s topic will be “The ConnectED future” as we discuss President Obama’s bold new initiative, ConnectED.  The goal of this undertaking is to get 99% of America’s students high speed broadband and wireless within the next five years.  During our hour on #cpchat we will explore and discuss together how this could change and/or even transform our schools.

Our moderators this week will be:

• Erik Burmeister (@mrbprincipal) – NASSP Principal of the Year from Hillview Middle School in Menlo Park, CA
• Rosie Vojtek (@rvojtek) – Ivy Drive Elementary School Principal in  Bristol, CT
• Patrick Larkin (@patrickmlarkin) – Assistant Superintendent for Burlington Public Schools in Burlington, MA

  Don’t miss the exciting conversation as we answer some of the following questions:

• Once we have a high-capacity, reliable broadband, wireless capabilities, what will teachers and students do differently to improve the quality of instruction in classrooms?
• How can online gaming and experiential learning in virtual environments prepare students for future career and life successes in the second half of the 21st century?
• What professional development will educators need to be able to take advantage of the high-capacity, reliable broadband?

10/22/2013 – Michelle Rhee’s Empty Harvest:

10/22/2013 – Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s Empty Harvest

October 22, 2013 Subscribe

THIS WEEK: Poor Children Are The Majority … Negative Impact Of Charter Boom… The Politics Of TFA… Schools Learn Tablets’ Limits … Poverty’s Effects On College Attendance

TOP STORY

The Empty Harvest From Michelle Rhee

By Jeff Bryant

“Without doubt the poster person for the reform movement has been ex-chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system Michelle Rhee … But it is Rhee’s spectacular rise and fall that in many ways symbolizes the fallen arc of the education reform movement … Rhee exemplified the reform creed of ‘data-driven decision making’” and a ‘produce or else’ mentality relying on student test scores … But the wealth of improvement stemming from expensive new assessment systems has yet to fill the account left barren by the nation’s reluctance to invest in our children’s education.”
Read more …

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Study: Poor Children Are Now The Majority In American Public Schools In South, West

The Washington Post

“A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at least four decades … Children from those low-income families dominated classrooms in 13 states … A decade earlier, just four states reported poor children as a majority of the student population in their public schools … The change helps explain why the United States is lagging in comparison with other countries in international tests … National efforts to improve public education … have been focused on the wrong problems.”
Read more …

Charter Boom May Have Negative Fiscal Impact On Districts, Report Says

Education Week

“Certain risk factors are making it harder for districts in economically challenged areas to remain financially viable as charters continue to grow … In places where school districts are already facing declining enrollment, and therefore dwindling amounts of per-pupil funding, they may find it necessary to cut back on academic programs and services. That can lead to more students leaving the district in favor of charter schools … Because charter schools pull students from a variety of grade levels across a district, it is challenging for district officials to make strategic decisions to cut back on expenses, such as consolidating classrooms or schools.”
Read more …

Teach For America Rises As Political Powerhouse

Politico

“With a $100 million endowment and annual revenues approaching $300 million, Teach for America is flush with cash and ambition. Its clout on Capitol Hill was demonstrated last week when a bipartisan group of lawmakers made time during the frenzied budget negotiations to secure the nonprofit its top legislative priority … TFA has already produced an astounding number of alumni who have transformed the education landscape in states from Tennessee to Texas … TFA is now embedding select alumni in congressional offices and in high-ranking jobs in major school districts … When TFA alumni gain political clout, they often push to expand TFA’s role in their communities, a cycle that has fueled TFA’s rapid growth in recent years … Signs of a backlash are emerging.”
Read more …

Schools Learn Tablets’ Limits

The Wall Street Journal

“As schools rush to embrace computer tablets as teaching tools, glitches have officials in a few districts rethinking the usefulness and even security of the latest technology trend … The highest-profile snafu came in Los Angeles … a $1 billion program … The fitful Los Angeles rollout comes as K-12 schools nationwide are expected to spend $9.7 billion on technology in 2013 … Officials in Fort Bend Independent School District in suburban Houston scrapped a $16 million iPad initiative after an audit this month … Officials in Guilford County Schools in Greensboro, N.C., suspended a $30 million effort … Skeptics say schools are racing into the digital promise with little forethought and, in some cases, expecting computer tools to boost academic outcomes even though the research on the issue is inconclusive.”
Read more …

School Poverty – More Than Race – Affects Students’ College-Going, Study Finds

Education Week

“High-poverty schools sent significantly fewer graduates to college in 2012 than higher-income schools, regardless of the schools’ geographic location or racial makeup … Schools with more than half of their students in poverty had lower rates of enrollment and lower rates of persistence in two- or four-year colleges than did higher-income schools … Only in higher-income schools was the racial makeup of schools associated with lower college attendance, and even there, it was smaller than the gap between rich and poor.”
Read more …

When Healthy Food Access is an Issue for Babies: New Video Explains “First Food Deserts” « MomsRising Blog

When Healthy Food Access is an Issue for Babies: New Video Explains “First Food Deserts” « MomsRising Blog:

When Healthy Food Access is an Issue for Babies: New Video Explains “First Food Deserts”

Posted October 22nd, 2013 by Kimberly Seals Allers

Improving healthy food access for children is important work. But what about babies? We know that in so-called food deserts, health outcomes are impacted  when residents lack  easy access to the most healthful foods. In the same way, when babies miss out on their most healthful first food–breast milk–because a mother cannot access the resources and support to continue breastfeeding, it is our youngest, most vulnerable children who pay the price. In far too many communities, babies are born into “first food deserts”–areas with extremely limited or no support for mothers who choose to breastfeed. These areas correlate to poor infant health outcomes and higher infant mortality rates. This animated infographic explains. Learn how we can all transform first food deserts into First Food Friendly communities.

Read more: http://www.momsrising.org/blog/when-healthy-food-access-is-an-issue-for-babies-new-video-explains-first-food-deserts/#ixzz2iThvD4Ts

 

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