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Submit ASES Second-Quarter Expenditures and First Semiannual Attendance

A combined fiscal and participation checkpoint whose expenditure and attendance records support payment, grant monitoring, and operational decisions.

  • ASES
  • Expanded Learning
  • ASSIST
Date(s)January 31, 2027
Applies toFY 2026–27 ASES grantees with applicable grants/sites

In Plain Language: Report FY 2026–27 Q2 expenditures: October 1–December 31, 2026; first semiannual attendance: July 1–December 31, 2026 in ASSIST. Reconcile the report to the general ledger, approved grant budget, site/program records, and unduplicated attendance source detail; clear system errors, certify by the deadline, and retain the submitted output.

Why this matters

Attendance and expenditures measure different things but meet at grant accountability. Inconsistent site, period, or grant mappings can delay payments and hide weak participation or spending controls.

Primary ownership

Primary owner: ASES grant administrator with expanded-learning fiscal lead. Partners: site coordinators, attendance/data staff, payroll, accounts payable, contracted providers, budget, authorized ASSIST user, and superintendent/designee.

From ASSIST permissions to certified ASES Q2 and semiannual reports: the SDLA ITO workflow

Expenditures and attendance reconcile to different sources, and both must be certified. This SDLA ITO (Input, Transformation, Output) graphic shows how the grant, site, and period controls, the ledger, and daily attendance records become the ledger reconciliation, the attendance support, and the certified reports with confirmation.

SDLA ITO: eleven steps from the grant, site, and period controls, the ledger, and daily attendance records, through scoping, fiscal and attendance reconciliation, variance review, and submission, to the ledger reconciliation, the attendance support, and the certified reports with confirmation.
Read down each column, then move to the next: Input identifies what to collect; Transformation covers scoping, fiscal and attendance reconciliation, variance review, and submission; Output covers the ledger reconciliation, the attendance support, and the certified reports with confirmation. Report October 1–December 31, 2026 expenditures and July 1–December 31, 2026 attendance by January 31, 2027.

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Operational workflow

  1. Confirm the correct grant, report, period, sites, and ASSIST permissions.
  2. Reconcile quarter expenditures and cumulative totals to the ledger, approved budget, payroll, contracts, and prior reports.
  3. Reconcile semiannual attendance to daily/site source records; remove duplicates and confirm dates and grant mapping.
  4. Investigate expenditure, attendance, budget, and program-delivery variances; obtain program/fiscal review.
  5. Submit/certify in ASSIST by the deadline and retain the final reports/status.

Implementation pathway

Scope/period
Fiscal reconcile
Attendance reconcile
Review
Submit

Evidence to retain

  • ASSIST grant/site/period control
  • Quarter and cumulative ledger reconciliation
  • Semiannual pupil/site attendance support
  • Budget and variance review
  • Certified expenditure and attendance reports
  • ASSIST confirmation

Official guidance and help

Source review completed August 30, 2026. Verify current CDE, PADC, ASSIST, entity-specific, grant, fiscal, attendance, and partner instructions before acting.