Purposes of Title I 

To improve the educational opportunities of educationally deprived children by helping them:

• Succeed in the regular program
• Attain grade-level proficiency
• Improve achievement in basic and more advanced skills, for example: reasoning, analysis, problem solving, interpretation and decision making.

How Title I Works 

The federal government provides funding to states each year for Title I.  To get the funds, each state must submit a plan describing:

• what all children are expected to know and be able to do
• the high-quality standards of performance that all children are expected to meet
• ways to measure progress.

The Title I School 

The Title I School is a partnership between parents, teachers, administrators and other school staff to:

• identify students most in need of educational help (students do not have to be from low-income families to receive help)
• set goals of improvement
• measure student progress, using standards set forth in the state’s Title I plan
• develop programs that add to regular classroom instruction
• involve parents in all aspects of the program.
  

Title I Programs are a partnership between Title I staff members, classroom teachers, administrators, parents and students in order to provide high quality education. 

Schoolwide Programs: are schools with 40% or more of children eligible for free/reduced lunch and the school has applied for schoolwide status. In a schoolwide school Title I staff can work with all children; with parents being aware of the possibility that their child may receive services as part of the school’s plan to improve student achievement. Parents are invited to a yearly Title I meeting to discuss the delivery of services, determine program goals, plan and carry out programs and learn how to support their child at home. 

Targeted Assistance Programs: are schools with less than 40% of children eligible for free/reduced lunch.  In these schools children must be: functioning below grade level; have parental consent to receive services; parents must receive regular progress reports and the services must be supplemental to the regular classroom instruction. Parents are invited to a yearly Title I meeting to discuss the delivery of services, determine program goals, plan and carry out programs and learn how to support their child at home. 

State Performance Standards: each Title I school is required to make an annual yearly performance report to the parents. New Hampshire uses the New England Common Assessments Program (NECAP) to measure Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).  If a school does not make AYP for 3 years it becomes a School in Need of Improvement (SINI) school. This means that if a parent wishes to send their child to a better performing school in the district they have a right to request a transfer. Farmington only has one school for each grade level and therefore can not offer Choice.  Parents of children who are eligible for free/reduced lunch have the opportunity to request Supplemental Educational Services for their student if they attend a Title I SINI school.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 requires the district to set-aside Title I funds such that students who receive free/reduced lunch, would benefit from academic support and who attend a Title I school that was unsuccessful at making Adequate Yearly Progress for three or more years are eligible for Supplemental Educational Services (SES).  Families may choose a tutoring program available through the New Hampshire state list of approved providers.  These services are free for eligible families.  The goal is to help students increase academic achievement in reading and/or mathematics.

Attachments:

File	Description	File size
Policy 4251.4 Title I Parent Involvement and Complaint.pdf		76 Kb
Title 1 Final Regulations Oct. 08		131 Kb
Strengthening Choice and Free Tutoring		195 Kb
Title 1 SES Per-Pupil Cap		36 Kb
SES Approved Providers Aug. 08		56 Kb
Superintendent's Letter to Community for DINI Notification (2008)		17 Kb
District Report Card		1081 Kb