No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

(NCLB)

Innovative Programs
Title V, Part A

The purposes of Innovative Education Program Strategies are to: a) support local education reform efforts that are consistent with and support statewide education reform efforts; b) provide funding to enable state and local educational agencies to implement promising reform programs; c) provide a continuing source of innovation and educational improvement, including support for library services and instructional and media materials; d) meet the special educational needs of at-risk and high-cost students; and e) develop and implement education programs to improve school, student, and teacher performance, including professional development activities and class size reduction programs. Services available to students are under 27 broad programmatic categories:

  • Recruiting, training, and hiring highly qualified teachers to reduce class size
  • Technology activities, including professional development
  • Development or acquisition of computer software and hardware, instruction materials, and library/media services and materials
  • Education reform projects, including magnet schools
  • Programs to improve the academic achievement of educationally disadvantaged elementary and second students, including dropout prevention
  • Programs to improve the literacy skills of adults, including adult education and family literacy programs
  • Programs for gifted and talented children
  • Planning, designing, and initial implementation of charter schools under Title V, Part B, of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
  • School improvement programs or activities under NCLB, Sections 1116 and 1117 of Title I
  • Community service programs
  • Consumer, economic, and personal finance education
  • Public school choice
  • Programs to hire and support school nurses
  • School-based mental health services
  • Alternative education programs
  • Prekindergarten programs
  • Academic intervention programs jointly operated with community-based organizations
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in schools
  • Smaller Learning Communities
  • Activities to advance student academic achievement through the school division
  • Parental and community involvement
  • Best-practice models to improve classroom learning and teaching
  • Same-gender schools and classrooms as outlined in NCLB, Section 5133 (b)(9)
  • Service learning activities
  • School safety programs
  • Programs that use research-based cognitive and perceptual development approaches to improve student learning
  • Supplemental educational services as defined in NCLB Section 1116(e) of Title I

All children in public and participating private, nonprofit, elementary and secondary schools are eligible to receive services in the broad range of programs and activities previously listed. Funds may be used to support programs that serve all members of a school's population. The state, however, must use a distribution formula that provides additional funds to divisions that serve greater percentages of children who present higher than average educational costs. These children are defined in the authorizing legislation as those who: 1) live in areas of high concentrations of low-income families, 2) are from low-income families, or 3) live in sparsely populated areas.

Source: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Title V, Part A—Innovative Programs

A downloadable version of the Non-Regulatory Guidance for Title V, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as reauthorized by the NCLB can be found at: (Word) (PDF).

U.S. Department of Education's Title V Web site

For additional information, please contact Duane C. Sergent or Diane L. Jay.

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