2023-2024 Program and Budget Handbook

Title I

The purpose of the Title I program is to meet the educational needs of children in low-income households and children in local institutions for neglected or delinquent children. Participants include students who are at risk of failing, disabled, and English Learners. The Title I program supplements services needed to raise the academic achievement level of kindergarten through grade 12 participants in basic and advanced skills. There are two models for serving students in a Title I school – targeted assistance program and Schoolwide Program. Only students identified as Title I-eligible may receive services funded by Title I in targeted assistance schools (TAS). Schools that have been approved to operate a Schoolwide Program (SWP) may provide services to all students including students with disabilities (students with active IEPs, students with a Section 504 plan, or students suspected to have a disability) and English Learners. However, based on prioritized needs, a school must particularly address the needs of low-achieving students and Supplemental Funds Supplemental funds are those funds which are granted to districts and schools for specific program purposes and which are over and above the general revenue funds the districts and schools receive to support the core program. Supplemental funds must be used to support and enhance the District’s core program. Supplemental funds may not be used to replace or supplant the funds and instructional program the District provides all schools, as Supplement not Supplant (SNS) fiscal requirements remain in

those at-risk of not meeting the state student academic achievement standards. Parents and family members of children being served should be included in the design and implementation of the program through activities such as developing a parent and family engagement involvement policy and school parent compact; parent-teacher conferences; parent training and family literacy; serving as classroom volunteers, tutors, aides, etc. The program receives federal funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA/Title I, Every Student Succeeds Act 2015 ). Title I funds are allocated to schools based on poverty percentages on the annual Title I ranking. These percentages are determined by the number of low-income students, aged 5 to 17, enrolled on CBEDS day who qualify for free- or reduced-price meals or CALWORKS. Schools that rank at or above the established threshold may receive Title I resources; schools that serve concentrations of poverty at or above 75% are guaranteed funding. place and have not been waived by the United States Department of Education (USDE). The use of supplemental funds must be clearly tied to the overarching goal of improving academic outcomes for participating students. Under the reauthorization of ESEA in December 2015, a district shall show compliance to SNS by demonstrating the methodology used to allocate state and local funds to each school receiving assistance under Title I ensures that such school receives all of the

4