Adult Basic and Family Literacy Education

Division of Adult Education Monitoring Risk Rubric

Grant Contract Related

CriteriaPoints
Agency has multiple grants from Division of Adult Education.2
Total of division grants is greater than $1,000,0004
Total of division grants is less than $250,000.3
Final Expenditure Report (FER) local match entries did not include all required information.2
Budget revision/ FER from previous year included unplanned expenditures on supplies or equipment late in the year.3
Agency expended less than 90 percent of any subproject or budget.2
Agency did not spend 5 percent of state funds on volunteer classroom aides.3

Situational

CriteriaPoints
Agency is a new grantee in most recent competition or agency awarded new grant type in the most recent competition.10
Agency has a new sub grantee in the most recent competition.4
Agency discontinued a contract with a sub grantee during the current grant cycle.1
Agency has one sub grantee.3
Agency has two or more sub grantees.5
More than 50 percent of program staff is part time.4
Program administrator has been in the role for less than two years.5
Data quality specialist has been in the role for less than 12 months.3
Agency changed (expanded or reduced) its service area during the grant cycle.3
Agency provides services in more than two counties.3
Agency has not been monitored in the last five years.5

Reporting

CriteriaPoints
Agency submitted FER or quarterly report late at least once.3
Agency submitted Program Improvement/Professional Development Worksheet late.1
Agency submitted the Data Quality Validation form late.1
Agency should have submitted a budget revision prior to submitting the FER but did not.2
Agency requested an extension for grant submission.2
Grant(s) returned to agency for corrections more than twice.5
Agency submitted a budget revision in previous year without discussing it with the advisor first.1
Agency did not resubmit returned grant/quarterly reports/FERs OR did not contact the advisor to discuss required changes within one week of return.5
Agency responded to the surveys late.3
Agency submitted Program Improvement Team minutes late.2

Leadership

CriteriaPoints
Program administrator has less than 25 percent of time to administer division grants.5
Staff did not attend annual kick off or other required meetings.3
Program staff are administering standardized assessments without the required training.4
New agency staff did not complete onboarding or required training within the time period mandated in the guidelines.2
Agency did not submit a copy of their collaborative report on workforce development planning with WIOA partners to the division.2

Data Entry and Collection

CriteriaPoints
More than 10 percent of attendance entries are not entered within 14 days.5
Agency invalidated 2 percent or 15 assessments, whichever is greater.2
In eData, it appears that the agency does not enter students’ actual attendance hours accurately (all attendance hours the same).4

Performance - Most Recent Program Year

CriteriaPoints
Actual enrollment was 85 percent or lower of contracted enrollment.2
Overall educational functioning level gain was in the first (bottom) quartile.5
Overall educational functioning level gain was in the second quartile.3
Difference between reported individuals and enrolled participants is greater than 20 percent or less than 5 percent.5

Total Potential Points = 132