No Child Left Behind Financial Compliance Insider^® is written specifically to guide you through complicated NCLB fiscal rules that can wreak havoc with your budgets and leave you vulnerable to a host of legal and financial headaches. In each monthly issue, leading school financial experts spell out how to comply with the law, avoid audit problems, take full advantage of new funding flexibility, get more out of your federal dollars, and avoid potentially devastating errors that could result in costly litigation — or in your having to give money back.

No Child Left Behind Financial Compliance Insider^® brings you practical guidance on:

• Permissible use of NCLB dollars and allowable expenses
• Paying for school choice and supplemental educational services
• New funding flexibility opportunities
• Creative ways to make the most of your NCLB grants
• NCLB audit survival strategies and preparation
• Methods of documenting your NCLB fiscal compliance
• Strategies to pay for required professional development
• Mandatory set-asides and reservations
• Budget allocations
• Calculating mandatory per-pupil expenditures
• Federal supplement, not supplant rules
• Consolidating funds in school-wide programs
• Maintenance of effort and comparability
• New NCLB grant opportunities
• And scores of other complex financial rules, guidelines, requirements and strategies

Simplify the tremendous burden of compliance. In addition to helping you comply and avoid legal problems, the No Child Left Behind Financial Compliance Insider^® provides vital assistance in reducing the enormous administrative burden this law places on you. You get easy-to-follow calculations, model forms, checklists, sample documentation records, flowcharts, pre-written letters and memos, and more — all helping assure you comply with the law the fastest, simplest way possible.

Stretch your federal dollars further. Your No Child Left Behind Financial Compliance Insider^® can help you make your dollars go further. You'll discover, for example, how to make the most of every permissible use of NCLB dollars, creative ways to stretch your federal money, how to transfer funds to avoid losing them, how to apply for waivers to gain flexibility, how to combine grants as a powerful budgeting strategy, and much more.

Limit your exposure to lawsuits and audit headaches. Under NCLB, the potential for trouble from litigious parents is greater than ever, and you face an increased likelihood of federal audits uncovering errors. The No Child Left Behind Financial Compliance Insider^® is your must-have resource to protect your school against costly legal action and disastrous loss of federal funding. With so much on the line for your students, your staff, your parents and your schools, this is crucial help you should not be without.