How may Pupil Retention Block Grant funds be used?
With the Continuation High School Foundation program as an exception, Assembly Bill 825 repealed the Education Code sections governing the programs included in the Pupil Retention Block Grant. Local educational agencies may spend Pupil Retention Block Grant funds for any purpose authorized by the programs’ statutes as they read on January 1, 2004, with limits, as follows: • Districts that received funding from the Dropout Prevention and Recovery programs in 2004-05 must use Block Grant funds to maintain the same number of state-funded outreach consultants that were maintained in 2004-05. A district is not required, however, to maintain positions or portions of positions that were funded in 2004-05 from other funding sources, e.g., Title I or local general fund. Therefore, in order to comply with Education Code Section 41506(f), a district must only maintain the full-time equivalent number of outreach consultants it employed with state dropout funds in 2004-05. Outreach consultants must
