The NEW EDGAR:
Every Day Grants Administration Rules!
Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC’s Spring 2015 Forum
The Washington Hilton – Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
* Early Registration: Tuesday, May 5th 4:00 - 7:00 pm
7:30 – 9:00
Pre-Session Registration Opens and Breakfast is Served (for Pre-Session attendees only)
8:30 – 11:00
Pre-Session: Breakfast with EDGAR
Michael Brustein and Bonnie Little Graham, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
This pre-session is an opportunity to get intimate with EDGAR. This is a basic level review of the
grants administrative requirements under the Education Department General Administrative
Regulations (EDGAR). This pre-session will provide an overall review of the specific sections of
EDGAR that will be reviewed in more depth during the rest of our May forum.
This is an optional pre-session that requires separate registration (or must be included as an addon to forum registration). On-site registration will be limited since breakfast will be included.
Attendees checking in for the pre-session, who are also attending the forum, will receive both the
pre-session and forum materials at this time.
10:00
General May Forum Check-In Begins
1:00- 1:15
Introduction and Overview
Tiffany Winters, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
1:15- 2:00
New Developments at the Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
Gil Tran, Executive Office of The White House, OMB (invited)
2:00- 2:45
How All the Pieces Now Fit Together In the Entirety of EDGAR
Michael Brustein, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
2:45- 3:00
Break
3:00- 3:45
How to Prepare for an Audit in Light of the Old and New EDGAR
Bonnie Little Graham, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
3:45- 4:30
OIG Work, Perspectives and Initiatives
Rich Rasa, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Education (invited)
4:30- 5:15
What Congress Is Doing… or Not Doing
Julia Martin, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
5:15- 6:30
Networking Reception Provided by Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
Thursday, May 7, 2015
CONCURRENT BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
7:00- 8:30
8:30 –
9:45
Continental Breakfast Provided by Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
Cross-Cutting
Requirements
ESEA/NCLB Program
Requirements
Testing Your EDGAR
Knowledge for SEAs and
LEAs
Jen Castillo and Erin
Auerbach
- Introductory Session-
Community Eligibility and
Waivers: How New
Policies Affect Federal
Funding, Reporting, and
Accountability
Leigh Manasevit and Julia
Martin
- Introductory Session-
9:45 – 10:15
10:15 –
11:30
IDEA Program
Requirements
Postsecondary/
Perkins/AEFLA/WIA
Ensuring Students with
Disabilities Are Served
Jenny Segal and Mike
Bender
- Introductory Session-
An Overview of the New
Adult Education and
Family Literacy Act and
Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act
Steve Spillan and Brette
Kaplan Wurzburg
- Intermediate Session-
Results Driven
Accountability – The
Ins, Outs and What We
Know
Jennifer Mauskapf and
Bonnie Little Graham
- Intermediate Session-
The Carl D. Perkins
Vocational and Technical
Education Act
Implementation
Edward Smith and Sharon
Miller, Office of Career,
Technical and Adult
Education, USED (invited)
and Michael Brustein
- Introductory Session-
Break
How to Draft Compliant
Policies and Procedures
Brette Kaplan Wurzburg
and Erin Auerbach
- Introductory Session-
Schoolwide Funding
Consolidation Panel
Moderated by Tiffany
Winters and Leigh
Manasevit
- Intermediate Session-
11:30- 1:00
Lunch provided by Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
1:00- 1:30
Effort Takes Time and Documentation
Mike Bender, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
1:30 – 2:00
To Buy or Not To Buy, (or How) That is the Question
Tiffany Winters, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
2:00- 2:30
Updates and Initiatives by Risk Management Services
Phil Maestri, Director, Risk Management Service, U.S. Department of Education (invited)
2:30- 2:45
Break
2:45- 3:15
Timeliness, Indirect Costs and Other Requirements Under Part 75
Leigh Manasevit, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
3:15 – 4:00
How Subrecipient Monitoring is Changing
Steve Spillan, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
Friday, May 8, 2015
7:00-8:30
Continental Breakfast Provided by Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
8:30-9:30
TBD
9:30-10:00
Update from the U.S. Government Accountability Office
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) (invited)
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Survival of the Fittest: Status of Federal Education Legislation
Julia Martin, Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC
11:00-11:30
Questions and Answers Panel
Panel of Brustein & Manasevit Attorneys