“If the contract is 8(g) funded, all provisions of this ownership clause apply except that upon termination or at the completion of 8(g) funding for a project/program, (BESE) may approve a contractor’s (TFA) request to retain equipment purchased with 8(g) funds based on the contractor’s assurance that the equipment will be used for educational enhancement.”
—Clause in a Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) contract with Teach for America (TFA) that would appear to allow TFA to maintain possession of equipment purchased with state funds should its contract with DOE be cancelled for any reason—even though, with a contract cancellation, TFA would no longer be teaching in Louisiana.
Louisiana Voice 
To use a North La. expression: ‘Shit fire!’
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…and save matches.
First of all, 8g funds are state funds. Any equipment purchased through the 8g program is state property that should be tracked by the LPAA. Actually, up until 2011 when TFA took over the Bese office, no outside contractor would have been allowed to purchase equipment with 8g funds as this would have been considered indirect costs that were forbidden. Additionally, even the participants of DOE projects that were funded by 8g were not allowed to keep the state-owned equipment purchased through the project. Even if DOE contracted with an outside source, they were responsible and required to tag and track any equipment purchased. BESE 8g auditors would have to physically set eyes on the piece of equipment with the state tag and the paperwork was kept on file in the Bese office for audits.
The clause in the 8g guidelines referred to above was only ever intended to apply to a public school district that purchased equipment with 8g funds- Never to an ouside contractor. Even nonpublic schools that used 8g funds were required to return the items back to LPAA for surplus.
Just another example of people with no experience trying to run state government without bothering to learn the laws!