No Child Left Behind Application 1 Title I, Part A Part 1

No Child Left Behind Application Specific Pages Covered a. Student Eligibility Criteria For Targeted Assistance Schools b. Staff Information c. New Schoolwide School Programs d. School Improvement e. Maintenance of Effort f. Eligible School Attendance Area g. Set-Asides and Allocation to Schools h. Homeless Children and Youth i. Preschool

No Child Left Behind Application Student Eligibility Requirements A. Targeted Assistance Schools 1. Children not older than 21 who are entitled to a free education through grade 12; 2. Children who are not yet at a grade-level at which the local education agency provides a free public education (preschool);

No Child Left Behind Application Student Eligibility Requirements 3. Children who are failing or most at risk of failing to meet the state’s challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally-related, objective criteria established by the division; and

No Child Left Behind Application Student Eligibility Requirements 4. Children from pre-school through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures.

No Child Left Behind Application Student Eligibility Requirements B. Title I Schoolwide Schools All students may be served, but the primary target are those students most educationally disadvantaged. Reference:

No Child Left Behind Application Title I Schoolwide Schools To become a Title I Schoolwide School you must: - Have at least 40 percent poverty; and - Submit a Schoolwide Plan that includes the following components:

No Child Left Behind Application Components of a Schoolwide Plan After conducting a comprehensive needs assessment, the schoolwide plan includes: 1. Schoolwide reform strategies; 2. Instruction by highly qualified teachers; 3. High-quality and ongoing professional development; 4. Strategies to attract highly qualified teachers to high-need schools; 5. Strategies to increase parental involvement;

No Child Left Behind Application Components of a Schoolwide Plan 6. Plans for assisting preschool students in the successful transition from early childhood programs to local elementary schoolwide programs; 7. Measures to include teachers in decisions regarding the use of academic assessments;

No Child Left Behind Application Components of a Schoolwide Plan 8. Activities to ensure that students who experience difficulty attaining proficiency receive effective and timely additional assistance; and 9. Coordination and integration of federal, state, and local services and programs. Reference:

No Child Left Behind Application Schoolwide Plans Schoolwide plans may be integrated into existing school plans, as long as all components are included. Plans must be submitted to your Department of Education liaison for review BEFORE the submission of the Title I application.

No Child Left Behind Application School Improvement A school is determined to be in School Improvement when it has not made adequate yearly progress (AYP) for two consecutive years in the same subject area. At the beginning of the following school year, the school enters Year 1 of School Improvement. The school remains in improvement until it has met AYP for two consecutive years in the same subject area.

No Child Left Behind Application Sanctions for Title I Schools in Improvement Year 1 of School Improvement: -Public School Choice must be offered. Year 2 of School Improvement: -Public School Choice is continued; -Supplemental Educational Services must be offered.

No Child Left Behind Application Sanctions for Title I Schools in Improvement Year 3 of School Improvement: -Corrective Action Year 4 of School Improvement: -Planning for Alternative Governance Year 5 and 6 of School Improvement: -Alternative Governance Public School Choice and Supplemental Education Services must continue to be offered at every stage of school improvement beyond Year 1.

No Child Left Behind Application School Choice Public School Choice must be offered by all schools who have been identified as a Title I school in need of improvement in Year 1 or beyond.

No Child Left Behind Application Supplemental Educational Services Supplemental Educational Services (SES) must be offered by all schools who have been identified as a Title I school in need of improvement in Year 2 or beyond.

No Child Left Behind Application PSC and SES and the Title I Application If offering PSC and/or SES, you must set-aside 5 percent for each. The divisions must set aside funds for SES. Funds may come from Title I federal funds or local division funds. The amount to be set aside is no more than 15 percent of the total allocation, unless a lesser amount is needed. If offering Public School Choice (PSC) in addition to SES, the total set-aside for both may be up to 20 percent of the total Title I allocation.

No Child Left Behind Application Maintenance of Effort: Requirement A school division may only receive Title I, Part A, allocation if the state educational agency (SEA) determines that the division has maintained its fiscal effort in accordance with Section 9521 of ESEA. School divisions indicate how this requirement is being met through submission of required data as requested by an annual Superintendent’s Memorandum on this topic. Title I Fiscal Issues: Non-Regulatory Guidance, May

No Child Left Behind Application Eligible School Attendance Area Title I, Part A, funds can only be used in eligible school attendance areas. A “school attendance area” means the geographical area of a particular school in which the children served by that school reside.

No Child Left Behind Application Eligible School Attendance Area (Continued) An “eligible school attendance area” is one where the percentage of children from low- income families who live in the school attendance area is at least as high as the percentage of children from low-income families in the entire school division.

No Child Left Behind Application Identifying Eligible Schools 1. All schools must be rank ordered by poverty percentage; 2. All schools at a 75 percent and above poverty level, must be served; and 3. Schools at 35 percent poverty or greater, but lower than the division-wide average, may be served provided funds are available.

No Child Left Behind Application Identifying Eligible Schools: Exceptions to Rank Order If a division elects to skip a school that has a higher percentage of children from low-income families to serve a school with a lower poverty percentage, this school must:

No Child Left Behind Application Identifying Eligible Schools: Exceptions to Rank Order (Continued) Meet Title I comparability requirements; Spend supplemental funds from other state or local sources that are spent according to the requirement of Section 1114 (Schoolwide) or Section 1115 (Targeted Assistance); and The funds expended from such other sources equal or exceed the amount that would be provided under Title I, Part A.

No Child Left Behind Application Identifying Eligible Schools: An Additional Year (Continued) If an eligible school does not qualify the following year as a Title I school, it may be designated as a school for service for one additional year. Title I Fiscal Issues: Non-Regulatory Guidance, May