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School districts can use up to 40 percent of the grant funds on other allowable activities, including stipends and awards for:

• Recruitment and retention of teachers: 

• In critical shortage subject areas;
• In subject areas with high percentages of out-of-field assignments;
• Certified and teaching in their main subject area; and/or
• With postgraduate degrees in their teaching area. 

• Career, mentor, and master teachers;
• On-going applied professional growth- To re-examine and restructure a campus school schedule to provide time during the regular school day for teachers to collaborate, receive professional development and learn new instructional strategies to become more effective teachers;
• Increasing local data capabilities to support instruction and accountability – To enable districts to design, develop, and implement data systems to efficiently and accurately manage, analyze, disaggregate, and use individual student to teacher data. An improved data system should assist a district in generating and using accurate and timely data to meet reporting requirements; support decision-making at the district, campus, and classroom levels; and facilitate research needed to eliminate achievement gaps and improve learning of all students;
• Awards for principals who increase student performance; and
• Other campus employees who demonstrate excellence through job-related performance criteria.