What does Title I, Part A serve and for what purpose?

1. What does Title I, Part A serve and for what purpose? • Title I, Part A requires districts to provide supplemental educational services to both public and private school students to ensure that all children have a fair, equal and significant opportunity to: • Enable all children to meet high academic standards • Available to Pre-school through 12th grade

2. How are Title I funds generated and allocated? • District Title I allocations: • Based on district poverty census data • Includes public and private school students • School eligibility • Based on the number of low income children in school’s attendance area • Instructional monies to serve eligible private school students • Based on the per pupil allocation of the public school attendance area in which the student resides

3. ESEA & Private Schools • Requires timely and meaningful consultation • Provides more flexibility to count low income private school children • Requires signed affirmations (PI-9550-AC) • Equitable services to teachers and parents of private school Title I students

4. What is timely and meaningful consultation? • On-going communication throughout the year to design, implement and evaluate the Title I program • Include face-to-face meetings • Topics to be covered • Design & development of Title I program • Implementation of Title I program • Evaluation of Title I program effectiveness • Use of funds & procedures for expenditures • Equitable participation – • Professional development • Parent involvement • Other

5. Topics for consultation with private school officials • Identifying eligible students and the needs of private school children who will receive Title I services • Services to eligible private school children • Determining equitable services • Delivery of services • Academic assessment of services • Evaluation and improvement of Title I services • Equitable participation of: • Teachers of participating Title I students • Parents/families of participating Title I students • Rights and responsibilities of the LEA and private school

6. What else should consultation include? • Number of private school students from low-income families • Public school attendance areas • Per-pupil allocation • Whether or not to ‘pool’ funds • Set asides and reservations (administration, professional development, parental involvement and family literacy services)

7. Spring/Summer Establish consultation calendar for upcoming year Determine procedures & date for collecting poverty data January Collect enrollment and poverty data (alternative common date can be used) Determine proportion of equitable services* *Equitable participation will be automatically calculated in the Title I electronic application. February – May/Jun Match addresses of private school students from low-income families to participating school attendance areas Discuss poverty data results Determine approximate available services to students, teachers, families Discuss multiple criteria to select eligible students Sign and submit written affirmation (PI-9550-AC) June-Sept End-of-year report Complete consolidated application budget and program plan Consultation sample timeline with private school for following year

8. Spring Determine eligible students for next year – private school identifies pool; public school determines level of services Design program Define student progress and program evaluation Determine needs for Professional development Parent involvement Inform parents Evaluate effectiveness of current Title I services Fall Begin services at the same time for both public and private school students Review potential services to new private school students who might be eligible for Title I On-going Consultation with private school leaders/teachers Assess student progress Professional development Working with parents/families Program design sample timeline for services to private schools

9. How is poverty determined in the private school? • Same measure of poverty as public schools (must use if available) • Results of a survey (with addresses and grades only). Must extrapolate from a representative sample of actual data • Proportionality, apply low-income percentage of each participating public school attendance area to number of private school children who reside in that attendance area • Comparable data, using an equated measure of low-income that can be correlated with the measure of low –income used to count public school students

10. Which students are eligible to receive Title I services? • Private school students who reside in participating public school Title I attendance areas and are failing or most at risk of failing to meet high standards • Homeless, 2 preceding years in Head Start, Even Start, Early Reading First, Title I preschool, Title I, Part C (Migrant Education) • Selected on the bases of multiple, educationally-related, developmentally-appropriate criteria • Poverty is NOT a criterion • LEA selects students from names of eligible students provided by private school officials.

11. What about eligible students who attend a private school in another school district? • The district in which the eligible student resides is responsible for providing services to the student, but may arrange to have services provided by another school district and reimburse that district based on the other district’s per pupil allocation. • It is important for districts to be aware of any of their students who may be attending private schools in neighboring districts. It is also important for district with private schools in their attendance area to inform the resident district of any students attending the private school(s).

12. What grade levels can be served? • If the LEA provides Title I services in a public school, the LEA must provide Title I services to eligible private school students reflecting the grade span of the public school. • For example, an LEA provides a Title I program only in first grade in a K-5 public school; eligible private school students may be in grade K-5.

13. Schedule Pull-out during day Extended day Summer school Service providers LEA employees LEA contract with third-party providers Space On site at private school, if available, with exclusive use by LEA Title I program during instruction Off site if space is not available, with transportation provided by LEA if needed Program Options

14. Criteria to identify eligible private school students Additional criteria to select participants, as needed Coordination of the Title I program with regular classroom program Academic content and achievement standards that incorporate the curriculum standards of the private school Appropriate assessment tools District monitoring of Title I program What should be considered in the Title I program design?

15. What should be considered in the Title I program design? (cont.) • Funds generated by low-income private school students who reside in Title I attendance areas must be used only for instructional services to eligible private school students. • Simply providing instructional materials and supplies to assist eligible private school students is NOT an option. • The program does not need to be identical to the public school program

16. Reservations • Districts must provide equitable participation from some funds reserved, including district wide instructional activities and/or programs or elementary and secondary public school students, as well as professional development, parent involvement, etc. • The amount of reserved funds that must be used for private school students must be proportionate to the number of private school students.

17. Other important considerations • Expenditures are ALWAYS the responsibility of the public school district • Private school officials have no authority to obligate or receive Title I funds • Funds “transferred” into Title I (from Title II-A, IID) are subject to equitable services • The needs of eligible private school students and the amount of funds available determines who is served and what those services are.

18. Other important considerations (cont.) • The public school district in consultation with the private school must design a Title I program that meets the needs of private school participants. • Title I services must be provided either by an employee of the public school or through another contacted individual, association, agency or organization who are independent of the private school. • On-going collaboration is the key to a successful Title I program.

19. Helpful web resources • Non-Regulatory Guidance – Title I Service to Eligible Private School Children • http://www.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/psguidance.doc • Statutory requirements: Section 1120 – Participation of Children Enrolled in Private Schools • http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg2.html#sec1120 • WI Title I Guidelines • http://www.dpi.wi.gov.title1/ti1b.html