Rules for Claiming Mileage
You may claim reimbursement for mileage up to a maximum of $1716 per school year. Mileage is its own 25% category, separate from the 25% allotted max for Extracurricular programs and field trip fees and costs.
When recording mileage, please track a month at a time before reimbursement. Processing weekly mileage for families will overburden the ADE office very unnecessarily.
1. Always fill in every field.
2. Remember to track to the location and home only once per trip. Meaning the student MUST be in the vehicle for the trip to count. If you drop off at the co-op or a class and go home then return you can ONLY claim the initial dropoff and the drive home after pickup. The child MUST be in the vehicle to claim the mileage.
3. On the spreadsheets you will need to enter the drop off and the pickup as two separate entries. This will give you the milage for the full trip.
4. Trips that can be claimed include travel to a co-op, school, microschool, extra-curricular class and activities, tutoring, and EFA covered therapy. At this time per the law travel can be claimed ONLY to approved vendors and providers, So field trip travel can ONLY be claimed if the field trip is to a location that is signed up as a vendor with the ADE. This rule applies to all locations, but locations can be listed as reimbursement only and not be setup as an active vendor and still fall within this rule. This includes travel to Speech, Occupational, Vision and other educationally needed therapies as long as they setup as a reimbursement only location with the ADE office.
5. Create separate logs for each child BUT each trip can ONLY be claimed on ONE child’s log even if multiple children go.
Excel Spreadsheet
This has all the needed data and is quite easy to fill out. Less cute but needs no internet access on the PC to work with it, and works offline using Excel just fine. The downside is you MUST have Excel.
Google Spreadsheet
This is fairly simple to use, but when you click the link, it will tell you you can not edit. You may need to make a copy before you can edit on some phones. On the iPhone, I know it asks you to download Google Sheets to edit, but that is a free app. Remember to COPY the document and then edit your copy so you don’t delete the origional.
ADE provided Excel Sheet
You will need to go to file and make a copy then open the copy and enable editing. Then you can edit the form as needed.