Title 1 Overview
What is the purpose of Title 1?
Who is funding intended for?
What are the qualifications for different types of Title 1 funding?
- Title 1 funding is intended to ensure students have an equal chance to obtain a high-quality education and be able to reach at least the proficiency on challenging State academic standards and assessments.
- To meed the educational needs of students with low achieving children from high poverty schools, including limited English speaking children, migrant children, children with disabilities, neglected or delinquent children, and you children who need reading assistance.
- To close the achievement gap between low and high performing students.
- To turn low-performing schools into high-quality education schools.
- To create more accountability for teaching and learning and increase achievement in disadvantage schools.
- To provide schoolwide programs and additional services to increase the quality of efficiency of instruction time.
- To ensure children have access to scientifically based instruction strategies and academic content.
- To provide opportunities for staff to participate in professional development.
- To provide parents with the opportunity to participate in their child's education in a meaningful way.
- The U.S. Department of Education distributes Title I funds to State educational agencies (SEAs) through four statutory formulas based primarily on census poverty estimates that are adjusted for the cost of education in each State. SEAs in turn distribute Title I funds to their local educational agencies (LEAs) in accordance with Title I requirements.
Who is funding intended for?
- Targeted Assistance - Local Educational Agencies with the highest percentage of students with low-income families receive funding. The school can use Title 1 funding for children who are failing or most at risk for failing achieve state academic standards.
- Schoolwide Title 1 Funding - Schools with at least 40% low-income families can receive schoolwide Title 1 funding. Schools that qualify for this may use funding for all students, provided funds are used to enrich academic achievement.
What are the qualifications for different types of Title 1 funding?
- Basic Grants - State Educational Agencies formal is at least 10 and the Local Education Agency's school population exceeds 2%
- Concentration Grants - Local Education Agency's number of poor students is more than 6,500 or 15 of the total school-age population
- Targeted Grants - Local Educational Agency's poor children is at least 10 and at least 5% of the population is school-aged children.
- Educational Finance Incentive Grants - Funds are distributed to Local Education Agencies where at least 5% of the Learning Educational Agency's population is school-aged children and the number of poor children is at least 10.