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Title I, Part A - Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged

Title I, Part A, is intended to help ensure that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency on challenging state academic standards and assessments. As the largest federal program supporting elementary and secondary education, Title I targets these resources to the districts and schools where the needs are greatest.

Title I, Part A, provides flexible funding that may be used to provide additional instructional staff, professional development, extended-time programs, and other strategies for raising student achievement in high poverty schools. The program focuses on promoting schoolwide reform in high poverty schools and ensuring students' access to scientifically based instructional strategies and challenging academic content. Title I, Part A, provisions provide a mechanism for holding states, school districts, and schools accountable for improving the academic achievement of all students and turning around low performing schools, while providing alternatives to students in such schools to enable those students to receive a high-quality education.

Title I schoolwide and targeted assistance programs are required to use effective methods and instructional strategies that are grounded in scientifically-based research. School improvement plans, professional development, and technical assistance that districts provide to low-performing schools must be based on strategies that have a proven record of effectiveness.

Schools may use Title I funds for one or two approaches:

  • Schoolwide Programs: High-poverty schools (those with 40% or more students from low-income families) are eligible to adopt schoolwide programs to raise the achievement of low-achieving students by improving instruction throughout the entire school, thus using Title I funds to serve all children.
  • Targeted Assistance Programs: Schools that are not eligible for (or do not choose to operate) schoolwide programs must use Title I funds to provide targeted services to low-achieving students.

Title I funds may be used for a variety of services and activities, most commonly for instruction in reading and mathematics. The legislation encourages the use of strategies such as extended day, extended year, and summer programs to increase learning time.

For Further Information Please Contact

, Bureau Chief
(850) 245-0479
SunCom 205-0479

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