Title I, Part A - Improving the Academic Achievement of Students
Listing of SAISD Title I Campuses
Purpose
Title I, Part A (Title I) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA) provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards. Federal funds are currently allocated through four statutory formulas that are based primarily on census poverty estimates and the cost of education in each state.
An LEA’s Title I allocation is the sum of the amount that the LEA receives under each formula. LEAs target the Title I funds they receive to schools with the highest percentages of children from low-income families. If a Title I school is operating a targeted assistance program, the school provides Title I services to children who are failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet challenging State academic standards. Schools in which children from low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment are eligible to use Title I funds to operate schoolwide programs that serve all children in the school in order to raise the achievement of the lowest-achieving students. LEAs also must use Title I funds to provide Title I services to eligible children enrolled in private schools.
Services
To ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards, the following services are provided through Title I Funds:
- Family Engagement Programs
- Family Literacy Programs
- Extended Day Programs
- Supplemental Staff for each Title I Campus
Title I, Part C - Migrant Education Program
Purpose
The goal of the Migrant Education Program is to ensure that all migratory children reach challenging academic standards and graduate with a high school diploma (or complete a HSED) that prepares them for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment.
Funds support high quality education programs for migratory children and help ensure that migratory children who move among the States are not penalized by disparities among States in curriculum, graduation requirements, and challenging State academic standards. Funds also ensure that migratory children not only are provided with appropriate education services that address their unique needs but also that such children receive full and appropriate opportunities to meet the same challenging State academic standards that all children are expected to meet. Federal funds are allocated by formula to State educational agencies (SEAs), based on each state’s per pupil expenditure for education and counts of eligible migratory children, age 3 through 21, residing within the state.
Title I, Part D, Subpart 2 - Neglected and Delinquent Youth
Purpose
Title I, Part D, Subpart 2 -Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk provides supplemental funding to state and local education agencies. The funding is designed:
- To carry out high quality education programs to prepare children and youth for secondary school completion, training, employment, or further education;
- Provide children and youth with the services needed to make a successful transition from institutionalization to further education or employment; and
- To operate programs in local schools for children and youth returning from correctional facilities and programs which may serve at-risk children and youth.