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Title I

Part A: Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies

Title I, Part A provides financial assistance through state educational agencies to school divisions and public schools with high numbers or percentages of poor children to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic content and achievement standards.

School divisions target the Title I funds they receive to public schools with the highest percentages of children from low-income families. Unless a participating school is operating a schoolwide program, the school must focus Title I services on children who are failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet state academic standards. Schools enrolling at least 40 percent of students from poor families are eligible to use Title I funds for schoolwide programs that serve all children in the school.

VDOE Guidelines, Procedures, and Resources

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

• Guidelines for Determining AYP of “Small n Schools” (PDF)
• Appeals of AYP Accountability Decisions – Superintendent's Memo #183-11, July 8, 2011
• AYP ratings for schools, school divisions & the commonwealth

USED approves Virginia's Science Standards and Assessment

• Virginia's Science Standards and Assessment Approval Letter (PDF)

Title I Applications

• All ESEA/NCLB Title applications, the Local Consolidated Application, OMEGA video modules, and technical assistance documents can be found on the Applications for Federal Funds page.

School Improvement and Title I

• Schoolwide Programs
  • Benefits of Becoming a Title I Schoolwide Program School: An LEA Resource (PDF)
  • Schoolwide Plan Peer Review Rating Rubric (Word)
  • Title I Schoolwide Program Schools and School Improvement: High Expectations for Parental Involvement (PPT)
• Title I School Improvement Resources
  • List of Title 1 Coordinators (PDF)
  • 1003(a)
  • 1003(g)
    • 1003(g) FY 2008 School Improvement Allocations (PDF)
• Title I School Accountability Status

• Instructional Interventions to Satisfy Provisions in the Standards of Accreditation
  • Instructional Interventions That Have Proven to be Successful with Low Achieving Students (PDF)
  • Application for an English-Reading Instructional Intervention (Word)
  • Application for a Mathematics Instructional Intervention (Word)
  • Appeals Process for Instructional Interventions (PDF)
• Recognized for Raising Achievement
  • Schools and School Divisions Recognized for Raising Achievement of Economically Disadvantaged Students – April 30, 2009

Ensuring Equitable Services to Private School Students (ESEA Section 1120)

• Ensuring Equitable Services to Private Schools (webinar), March 2012
• Ensuring Equitable Services to Private Schools (PPT), March 2012

Parent Resources

• Facts and Terms Every Parent Should Know About NCLB
• Title I Complaint Procedure (PDF)
• Sample District Wide Parental Involvement Policy (Word)
• Sample School Parent Involvement Policy (Word)
• School Parent Involvement Policy Checklist (Word)
• School Parent Involvement Policy (PPT)

Public School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services Resources

• Funding Requirements – 20 Percent Obligation (PDF)
• Sample Parent Letters and Materials – VDOE Guidance
• Public School Choice
  • Public School Choice Requirements (PDF) – VBOE Guidelines
  • Public School Choice Non-Regulatory Guidance (Word) – USED
• Supplemental Educational Services
  • Supplemental Educational Services
  • Grant Allocations – Per Pupil Expenditures (PDF)
  • Board of Education Criteria for the Providers of Supplemental Educational Services (PDF)
  • Supplemental Educational Services Providers Application (Word)
  • Scoring Rubric (Word)
  • Appeals Process (PDF)
  • Sample Provider Contracts (PDF)
  • Supplemental Educational Services Handbook (PDF)
  • Tutor-Parent Agreement (Word) – 2005-2006
  • Supplemental Educational Services Providers List
• School Improvement Implementation Survey (SIIS)
  • Reporting Title I School Improvement through SIIS (PPT)
  • SIIS Reference Guide (PDF)

Highly Qualified Teachers and Paraprofessionals

• Highly Qualified Teachers Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (PPT) – VDOE presentation on ESEA/NCLB requirements for teachers and paraprofessionals
• Parental Notification Letters on Teacher Qualifications
  • Sample Letter – Parent’s Right to Request Information on Teacher Qualifications (Word)
  • Sample Letter – Assignment of Non-Highly Qualified Teacher for More Than Four Weeks (Word)

Sample Documentation for Verifying Title I Employment

• Certification of Pay (100 percent of Title I employment) (Word)
• Personnel Activity Report (Word)
• Verification of Compliance – Principal Attestations (Word)

U.S. Department of Education Legislation, Guidance, and Resources

• NCLB Legislation, Regulation and Guidance
• NCLB Policy Letters to States
• NCLB Legislation, Public Law 107-110
• Key Title I Guidance
  • ARRA: Funds under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Made Available Under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PDF) 
  • Title I Fiscal Issues (Word)
  • Local Educational Agency Identification and Selection of School Attendance Areas and Schools and Allocation of Title I Funds to Those Areas and Schools (Word)
  • High School Graduation Rate (PDF) 
  • Title I Paraprofessionals (Word)
  • Parental Involvement (Word)
  • Serving Preschool Children under Title I (Word)
  • Title I Services to Eligible Private School Children (Word)
  • Report Cards (Word)
  • LEA and School Improvement (Word)
    • Public School Choice (Word)
    • Supplemental Educational Services (Word)
  • Designing Schoolwide Programs (Word)
• Use of Title I Funds
  • Divisions and Schools Identified for Improvement
• Education Jobs Fund
  • When to Treat Expenditures of Education Jobs Funds as State or Local Funds for Purposes of Fiscal Requirements Under Title I, Part A of ESEA (PDF)
  • Initial Guidance for States on the Education Jobs Fund Program (PDF)
• Federal Public School Choice Publications
  • Creating Strong Division School Choice Programs
  • Help Parents Make Informed Choices (includes sample of choice letter to parents)
  • Calculating Costs for Transportation Under the Public School Choice Provision of NCLB
  • How Can Virtual Schools Be a Vibrant Part of Meeting the Choice Provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act? (PDF) – Virtual Schools as a Public School Choice Option
• Supplemental Educational Services Policy
  • LEA Conditions on Providers
  • SES in Action: A Toolkit for Parents and Community Leaders
• Federal Budget Information
  • State Allocation Tables
  • Understanding Federal Allocations
  • Definition of Obligation of Funds (PDF)
• National School Lunch Program and Provisions of NCLB
  • Federal Requirements Regarding Release of Information

Professional Development

From Vision to Practice Eighth Annual Institute: The Future of Learning – A Shifting Landscape will be held July 10-12, 2012 in Williamsburg, Virginia.

• From Vision to Practice Eighth Annual Institute

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