9/25/11

On September 16, 2011, the State Board of Education adopted on First Reading an amendment to 19 TAC Chapter 105, Foundation School Program, Subchapter B, Use of State Funds, §105.11, Maximum Allowable Indirect Cost.  The proposed amendment to Chapter 105, Subchapter B, presented by TEA staff was amended by board member Lawrence A. Allen Jr., to add a subsection that directs the Texas Education Agency to develop a methodology to provide optional alternative indirect cost rate(s) for each school district beginning with school year 2012-13, as an alternative to the specified indirect cost rates in Chapter 105, Subchapter B. 

The State Board of Education amendment on First Reading (subject to further amendment until final adoption in subsequent readings of proposed amendment to Chapter 105, Subchapter B) proposes to implement indirect cost rates beginning with school year 2011-12, as follows:

Career and Technical - 42%

Gifted and Talented - 45%

Special Education - 48%

Special Language - 48%

Compensatory Education - 48%