clearAMS / Product

Everything an audit asks for.

Every school's Prop 28 site expenditure plan is built in one guided workflow, held to that school's own allocation, screened line by line for allowability, and carried through review, optional School Site Council approval and signature — with every version, decision and comment kept as a record that cannot be edited after the fact.

Free for every California district 01 · Every school held to its own allocation

The allocation is the ceiling, per site.

Prop 28 money is allocated per school, and that's the level an auditor tests at. clearAMS makes each school's own allocation the hard ceiling on its plan — not a district average, not a pooled pot — and it enforces the non-personnel share limit on top of it. A plan that exceeds either cannot be submitted.

  • Each school's spend measured against its own allocation, not a district average
  • The non-personnel share limit enforced, with district waivers recorded where one applies
  • Every figure traceable back to the plan line it came from
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Plans · FY 2026–27

12 schools · 9 submitted
Live
Adams Elementary · $86,400 of $86,400At ceiling
Jefferson Elementary · $71,200 of $92,000In review
Lincoln Middle · $98,300 of $98,300At ceiling
Washington High · $138,000 of $138,000At ceiling

Non-personnel share · waiver on file

Lincoln Middle's plan puts more than the standard share into supplies and equipment. The district waiver covering FY 2026–27 is recorded against it, so the submission is allowed and the reason is on the record.

02 · A dated record of every decision

The trail is written as it happens, not reconstructed after.

When the request arrives — from your auditor, your board, or the state — the answer shouldn't be a search through two years of email and three versions of a spreadsheet. clearAMS keeps the record as the work is done: every version, every decision, every comment, each one dated and attributed, and none of them editable afterwards.

  • Every plan version, reviewer decision, line comment, signature and SSC approval date
  • An e-signature record on each certification, hashed against the exact plan content signed
  • A PDF record copy filed automatically at approval and at formalization
  • Earlier record copies stay retrievable, unchanged, across the three-year cycle
cARecord copies
01 · Allocation of record
02 · Plan versions, all 4
03 · Reviewer decisions
04 · Line comments
05 · SSC approval + date
06 · Signature + content hash
07 · Change history
Filed at each decision, not on request.
cABefore clearAMS
Four
weeks
of email
And a reviewer who left in June.
03 · Multi-year planning dashboards

All three years of the cycle, on one screen.

An allocation can be spent across three fiscal years, which means a plan that looks fine in isolation can still leave a school stranded with unspent funds in year three. The multi-year dashboards put the whole cycle in front of the district — because a district that can't see the whole cycle can't manage it.

  • Plan and forecast in any fiscal year of the three-year window
  • Carryover tracked per school, with what's committed and what's still open
  • A district-wide view of where unspent funds are accumulating, and how fast
  • Reconcile two fiscal years together and carry a plan forward as next year's start
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Three-year cycle · district

FY 25–26 → FY 27–28
Compliance tier
FY 2025–26 · allocated $1,042,000Closed · 98%
FY 2026–27 · allocated $1,088,400
FY 2027–28 · projected $1,110,000Forecast

Carryover watch

Roosevelt and Sample Elementary are carrying a combined $68,400 into year three with nothing committed against it. Both are flagged for the arts office.

04 · The intelligence engine

A second set of eyes on every line, and a first draft of the hard ones.

An AI check reviews every purchase and every position against the program's rules and flags anything that isn't standards-based arts instruction, such as a non-arts hire or a prohibited purchase, before it reaches a reviewer.

And it writes your supply lines. The line reviewers send back most is a lump sum with a vague label. Type "art supplies" and a figure, and the coach recommends the material categories that line should name for that discipline, then estimates how your figure divides across them, as wording you can use in one click. Your total never changes; the split is a starting point you adjust to what the school actually plans to buy.

  • Allowability screening on positions, supplies and services
  • Supply lines drafted for you: recommended categories, with your total split across them
  • Plain-language guidance when a plan is over its allocation or the 20% cap
  • Draft review notes the arts office edits before anything is sent
  • Resubmissions checked line by line against what was asked for

It fails open by design. If the check is ever unavailable, your reviewer is still the backstop, exactly as before.

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Supplies · allowability check

32 sets of watercolor pans and brushes, grade 4$1,280
Allowable: consumable materials for visual arts instruction.
Classroom laptops, 10 units$9,900
Not allowable as written: general-purpose technology. Tie it to arts instruction, such as a digital media course, or remove it.
Art supplies$8,000
Here's a suggested split of the $8,000 across typical visual art materials; adjust it to your plans. Suggested: Visual arts instructional supplies including tempera paint, drawing paper, clay and glazes, and printmaking materials. Estimated split: tempera paint, about $3,000; drawing paper, about $2,000; clay and glazes, about $2,000; printmaking materials, about $1,000.
05 · Documents & decks

From approved plan to presentation in two clicks.

Submitting a plan generates a dated plan document in your district's Google Drive. Every later revision updates that same document, so there is always exactly one current copy of record.

  • A branded slide deck built from the plan, with charts and talking points
  • A printable copy to hand out at the School Site Council meeting
  • Both saved to Drive, where principals can edit them
cASlide deck
SSC
ready
Talking points and charts, generated from the plan.
cAPlan document
One
copy of
record
Dated, filed in Drive, updated in place.
06 · Import & reconcile

Nobody starts over.

Schools already have plans in every format imaginable. clearAMS reads them in and reports what's missing or non-compliant, so your arts office can hand the plan back with the issues attached or correct it with the principal.

  • Upload an existing plan from Word or PDF
  • Reconcile two fiscal years together, since an allocation can be spent over three
  • Carry a plan forward as next year's editable starting point
  • Every district adjustment is labeled, and the principal is told what changed
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Legacy import

Lincoln MS · plan_2025-26.docx
Missing: students servedNeeds input
"Music equipment" is too generalSuggest split
Supplies and services at 26% of allocationOver 20%
Three positions matched to arts disciplinesLooks good

Also in the box

Guardrails, checked twice

The allocation ceiling and the 80/20 staffing rule are enforced in the browser and again on the server, so a plan over either limit cannot be filed. Allowability is advisory and goes to your reviewer, who remains the decision.

Line comments

Reviewers pin comments to specific budget lines, so feedback is exact and never lost in an email thread.

Email and in-app notices

Principals hear about every decision by email and inside the app, with the reviewer's note attached.

Change highlighting

A returning plan shows exactly what changed since its last formalized version.

Plan search

Find any plan, line or school across the district from the admin view.

Snapshots & restore

Snapshot your district's data to a single file on demand, and restore from it.

Waiver register

Every waiver the district has recorded, by the fiscal year it covers, carried into the record copies of the plans it governed.

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