Dear Select County and District Superintendents:

Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program
Revised Estimated State Match Funding for the
2023–24 School Year

The purpose of this letter is to notify participating local educational agencies (LEAs) of an update to the 2023–24 school year estimated total state match for the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program (CSESAP). The California Department of Education (CDE) published the original estimate in the letter dated May 1, 2023, available on CDE’s website at https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r14/csesap22estltr1.asp, along with other relevant information about the program.

A balance of $17,709,223 in prior year funding appropriated for the CSESAP is available for the 2023–24 school year match payment scheduled for August 2024. Therefore, the funds available for the match in 2023–24 have increased from $90,000,000 to $107,709,223. Based on the original estimated data reported by LEAs in April 2023, and the revised amount of funding available, the estimated state match funding has increased from eighty cents ($0.80) to ninety-six cents ($0.96) for each one dollar ($1) that the classified employee elects to have withheld from their monthly paycheck for the 2023–24 school year. A copy of this letter and accompanying schedule of the revised estimated amount of state match funding for each participating LEA is available on the CSESAP FY 2022–23 Funding Results web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r14/csesap22result.asp.

LEAs that met the April 1, 2023, application requirement and complete the request for payment by July 31, 2024, will be included in the August 2024 apportionment. LEAs request payment by reporting actual withholdings for participating classified employees using a web-based request for payment form located on the CSESAP Request for Application web page at, https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r14/csesap23rfa.asp [Note: The preceding link is no longer valid.]. The CSESAP request for application will be available from mid-June through July 31, 2024.

For additional information on the CSESAP including key dates, refer to the letter dated December 9, 2022, and the frequently asked questions posted on the CSESAP web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/ca/csesap.asp. For questions regarding this program, please contact the Categorical Allocations and Audit Resolution Office by email at csesap@cde.ca.gov.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Dearstyne, Director
School Fiscal Services Division

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