Office of School Finance
July 1, 2019
Learning Connection to Retire
The Learning Connection is being retired in phases. The next phase of this retirement involves Learning Connection Communities. All Learning Connection communities will become unavailable on or after January 1, 2020. Plans for additional phases of retirement for the Learning Connection are being developed and will be communicated as plans are completed. The retirement of Learning Connection communities feature will not affect access to ISTAR-KR or Indiana IEP.
The School Finance community of the Learning Connection is now discontinued. To stay up-to-date with announcements and information regarding the Office of School Finance, please subscribe to this newsletter.
Form 9
Should you be testing a file in your Form 9 dashboard, please be aware that you may see the newly developed Statement of Transfers, step 4. This will be removed from the July to December 2018 submission once all development changes are complete. Submissions for July to December 2018 have all been completed and no further steps are necessary. The Transfer report will be part of the Form 9 submission for January to June 2019, submitted this July.
FY 2020 State Tuition Support Worksheets
The Office of School Finance has released the FY 2020 State Tuition Support Worksheets. The worksheets can be found in State Aid at the following link: https://stateaid.doe.in.gov/ This is a secure site that requires a login and password. The login is the 4-digit corporation number and the password is the corporation PIN. Please review the worksheet and the individual data variables in the calculation of the FY 2020 State Tuition Support Grants.
The FY 2020 Form 54 Monthly Distribution Report will not be available until July 15th. We will notify you when it is available. If you have any questions regarding the worksheet, please contact Melissa Ambre or Amy Pattison.
Annual Financial Reports
Please note that the Annual Financial Report required to be submitted through the State Gateway per I.C. 5-11-1-4 is a separate requirement and falls under the authority of the Indiana State Board of Accounts. Submit questions related to this requirement to annualreports@sboa.in.gov.
The template for the Annual Financial Report may be obtained under the Files and Bookmarks tab in the Annual Financial Report folder. If you have questions concerning the Annual Financial Report, please contact Skii Ficklin by telephone at (317) 232-0844 or by email.
School Technology Advancement Account
The Office of School Finance will accept School Technology Advancement Account applications from June 19 through July 12, 2019. Per Indiana Code 20-49-6-4, there is $5 million appropriated for STAA loans. School officials can use STAA funds for the purchase of computer hardware and software to be used for student instruction and for the development and implementation of innovative technology projects. The loans must be executed by June 15, 2020.
The application process for STAA has been changed in recent years. School officials interested in submitting a STAA application can complete an online application here. Please note the application must be completed in one sitting as no applications can be saved and revisited on the website. You may download a sample application and the certification page from Moodle that can be completed and used to assist with the online data entry.
If you have questions concerning this memo, please email Skii or Melissa here.