If you need to request more funds for the 23-24 school year, the links for each type are below, along with examples of how each is usually used:
Reserve Request (23-24): If your district or charter needs enrollments beyond your instructional projection in the registration system, you may request reserve funding. Districts/charters are not billed for reserve funds as you have already paid to build the fund. Reserve funds will be factored into the following year’s projection.
Examples
Your school has several teacher vacancies, and you need to enroll students in NCVPS courses, or you need to expand the offerings for your overall catalog.
If your charter school was originally a K-8 school and is now expanding into high school or your school district did not use NCVPS much in the past but sees a need for more enrollments, you could choose to use reserve funds to enroll students.
There is nothing else the school or district will need to do for reserve funds after the request is submitted, as those extra enrollments will be used to calculate the projections for the following year by the state.
Flexible Request (23-24): School districts or charter schools may enroll students without using funds taken from their budgets by the funding formula or have those enrollments count toward their projections for the next year. With flexible funding, districts and charter schools may use other funds to pay for NCVPS enrollments (e.g., ESSER, Title funds, IDEA, etc.). Enrollments made with these funds will not be counted toward next year’s projected enrollments.
To use flexible funds, the Chief Operations Officer would send the Superintendent or designee requesting these enrollments an invoice through DocuSign to be sent back with signatures. The school would then be responsible for sending the funds for the enrollments to NCDPI for payment before February.
