Federal Title Programs

Teacher & Principal Training

Title II Part A involves teacher and principal training and recruiting.  The purpose is to provide services to increase student academic achievement through strategies such as improving teacher and principal quality and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom and highly qualified principals and assistant principals in schools.

State and local level activities include, but are not limited to:

1. improving teacher performance through professional development and training materials
   
2. improving teachers' instructional practices by providing instructional coaching
   
3. teacher retention programs
   
4. recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers and principals
   
5. increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in classrooms
   
6. class-size reduction programs
   
7. leadership programs for highly qualified administrators
   
8. supporting paraprofessional, teacher, and principal certification programs

Activities must be based on district's needs assessment, and be aligned with state academic content standards, student academic achievement standards, and state assessments

SSAE-Student Support and Academic Enrichment

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA).  ESSA reflects the civil rights tradition of ESEA, which reflects our nation’s longstanding commitment to equity of opportunity for all students. The new law has a clear goal of ensuring that our education system prepares every child to graduate from high school ready to thrive in college and careers. The ESEA includes a number of provisions that promote equitable access to educational opportunity, including holding all students to high academic standards, ensuring meaningful action is taken to improve the lowest-performing schools and schools with underperforming student groups and providing more children with access to high-quality preschool.

Newly authorized under subpart 1 of Title IV, Part A of the ESEA, the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) program is intended to help meet these goals by increasing the capacity of State educational agencies (SEAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), schools and local communities to:

1. Provide students with access to a well-rounded education,
   
2. Improve safe and healthy school conditions for student learning, and
   
3. Improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students.  (ESEA section 4101).

*Funds are allocated based on the Title I formula. 

*If a school district receives an allocation below $30,000, the law does not require a needs assessment or setting aside percentages for well-rounded and safe and healthy students programs.  The school district must spend money on activities in at least one of the three categories.  However, there is a 15 percent technology spending cap for devices, equipment, software and digital content.  

Rural & Low Income Schools Program (RLIS)

The Rural and Low-Income School Program is a formula grant that provides financial assistance to rural districts to meet local academic needs.  RLIS funds a variety of activities including teacher recruitment and professional development, support for educational technology, parental activities, and more.

The Rural and Low-Income Schools (RLIS) Program provides grant funds to rural school districts where

1. 20 percent or more of children served ages 5 through 17 years are from families with incomes below the poverty line and
2. designated with a School Locale code of 6,7, or 8, as determined by the United States Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics

Departments

United States Department of Education

Florida Department of Education

Resources

Florida Grade Level Standards and Course Descriptions

Homeless Information

National Parent Teacher Association

Title I Law

Title II Information

Families Engaged in Education

Schools can thrive when families and teachers work together, as genuine partners, to maximize student learning inside and outside the school. 

Parent Family Engagement meetings are where parents can learn exactly where their child is in comparison to academic standards, where their child needs to be by the end of the school year, and how they can help support their child's learning outside of the classroom.

The latest Parent and Family Engagement Plan can be viewed at :2021 - 2022 Family Engagement Plan

Title I

1.  What is Title I?

A federal assistance program providing services in needy schools.
Title I is the largest and oldest federal program for funding education.  Established in 1965, Title I serves as the cornerstone for the NO Child Left Behind Act of 2001(NCLB).  The Department of Education serves over 50,000 Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) with Title I funds.
The goal of Title I is to ensure that all students, especially those from a lower economic status receive a fair, equal and significant opportunity to a acquire a high-quality education.  

2.  What is a Schoolwide program?

A Title I Schoolwide program is a method of delivering Title I services in eligible schools.  It allows the school to address the educational needs of children living in the impoverished communities with comprehensive strategies for improving the entire school so every student achieves the high levels of academic proficiency.

Schoolwide programs have great latitude to determine how to organize their operations and allocate the multiple funding sources available to them.  They do not have to identify particular children as eligible for services or separately track federal dollars.  Instead, Schoolwide programs can use all allocated funds to increase the amount and quality of learning time.  In this way, they can embrace a high-quality curriculum, according to a comprehensive plan that ensures that all children meet the state's challenging academic standards.

Schoolwide programs serve all children in a school.  All staff, resources, and classes are part of the overall Schoolwide program.  The purpose is to generate high levels of academic achievement in core subject areas for all students, especially those students most in need.  This purpose is achieved through: 

• High quality instruction
  
• Comprehensive reform strategies and methods that are based on the use of scientifically based research
  
• Strategies and methods to improve teacher quality and professional development
  
• Consolidated use of funds

3.  What are the advantages of becoming a Schoolwide program?

• When an entire school is the target of change, schools serving the most disadvantaged youth can achieve success.
  
• A Schoolwide program is built upon whole school reform strategies rather than separate, fragmented or add-on services.
  
• The whole school takes responsibility for the success of each student.
  
• Integration and coordination of efforts toward the unified goals provide for greater success.

4.  What are the eligibility requirements for Title I Schoolwide programs?

• The school's poverty level must be at least 40%.
  
• The school and district together decide the school should be Schoolwide.
• High-quality assistance and support is available to the school.
• The district approves, (with external technical assistance provider recommendations) the school's Schoolwide plan.

Title IX- Homeless Education

1.  What is the purpose of Title IX?

Make sure homeless children and unaccompanied youth have access to public school educational programs and services that allow them to meet the same challenging state academic standards to which all students are held.

2.  Who is considered homeless?

If any of the following choices apply to you and your family, your child could be eligible for homeless services.

Where does the student stay at night?

• in a shelter
  
• in a home with family or friends because we do not have a place of our own
  
• in a car, campground or park
  
• in a hotel or motel
  
• somewhere other than in the care or custody of a parent or guardian
  
• in a place that is not meant for people, like an abandoned building or shed

Title V 

1.  What is Title V?

Rural and Low-Income School Program

Title V is the Rural and Low-Income School Progam.  It is intended to meet the unique needs of rural and low-income districts by providing resources and flexibility to supplement selected No Child Left Behind priorities.