What are the Differences Between Targeted and Schoolwide Title I Programs

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What are the Differences Between Targeted and
Schoolwide Title I Programs?
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Targeted Assistance Program

• A targeted assistance program provides
  supplementary services only to identified
  students failing to meet core curriculum
  standards
• Students are served based on a comprehensive
  student needs assessment
• Program services are research based
• Supplementary services are provided in all four
  core curriculum areas

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Schoolwide Program

• A schoolwide program is a comprehensive school
  reform initiative
• The schoolwide model is designed to generate high
  levels of academic achievement in core academic
  areas for all students, especially those who are
  not meeting the States academic content and
  achievement standards

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Schoolwide Program Requirements

• Comprehensive Plan Elements
• Describes components
• Describes resources
• Lists related programs
• Describes parent support

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Schoolwide Program Requirements

• Comprehensive needs assessment
• Schoolwide reform strategies
• Instruction by highly qualified teachers
• High quality professional development
• Attract highly qualified teachers to high needs
  schools

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Schoolwide Program Requirements

• Parent involvement
• Transition plans
• Teacher participation in assessment decisions
• Timely additional assistance
• Coordination of services and programs

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Schoolwide Program Requirements

• Schoolwide programs are not relieved of
  requirements relating to
• Health, safety, civil rights
• Student and parental participation and
  involvement
• Services to private school children
• Maintenance of effort
• Comparability of services

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Schoolwide Planning

• To Become Schoolwide, a School Must
• Meet a 40 poverty threshold
• Participate in a one-year school improvement
  planning process
• Once a School is Schoolwide, It Must
• Conduct an annual evaluation of program
  effectiveness

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Schoolwide Planning Grants

• 3,000 planning grant available through MDE Due
  June 1, 2008
• Grant helps defray cost of one year planning with
  an MDE approved facilitator
• Application available at www.michigan.gov/osi
• Under Field Services Unit, click Title I
• Under Title I Schoolwide Planning,click 2008-09
  Schoolwide Planning Support Team Needs

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Schoolwide Plans

• Schoolwide Plans are reviewed on a rotational
  basis
• Only schoolwide trainers, approved by MDE, can
  facilitate schoolwide training
• All completed schoolwide plans must be approved
  by MDE

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How Can Title I Funds Support Special Education?
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Title I Funded Services and Special Education

• Title funded services can provide supplemental
  support for special education students
• Eligibility for services are based on the same
  criteria as all other Title funded students and
  delivered within design of the programs

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Title Funded Services and Special Education

• Title funds must supplement not supplant services
  for special education students
• Title funds may not be used to provide services
  that are required by law under general and other
  categorical funding
• Title services should not be written into an
  Individualized Educational Program (IEP)
• Title services cannot be used to meet the goals
  of the IEP

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Special Education

• Targeted Assistance Programs
• Children are identified by the school as failing
  or most at risk of failing to meet the States
  challenging student achievement standards
• Children with disabilities are eligible for
  services on the same basis as other children to
  receive services

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Special Education

• Schoolwide Programs
• No school participating in a schoolwide program
  shall be required to identify particular children
  as eligible to participate
• Must include strategies to address the needs of
  all children in the school but particularly the
  needs of all low-achieving children and those at
  risk of not meeting the state student academic
  achievement standards

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Special Education

• Schoolwide Programs
• Must include activities to ensure that the
  students who experience difficulty mastering the
  proficient or advanced levels of academic
  achievement standards shall be provided with
  effective, timely assistance
• Difficulties are identified and analyzed as a
  basis for effective assistance

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What are the Title IIILimited English Proficient
(LEP) Grant and Title III Immigrant Children
and Youth Grant Programs?
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Title III

• Title III provides supplemental programs and
  services
• The purpose of the program is to promote rapid
  acquisition of English language proficiency

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Title III

• Grant funds are allocated for two programs
• English language instruction programs for LEP
  students
• Programs to provide supplemental services to
  immigrant students

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Title III

• Title III prohibits states from awarding
  sub-grants of less than 10,000
• LEA must establish headcount based on students
  who took the ELPA or the ELPA Screening
• No more than 2 of the sub-grant allocation may
  be used for administrative costs, which does
  include indirect costs

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Title III

• Grantee must also implement an effective means of
  outreach to parents of LEP students
• Grantee must inform parents of right to have
  their child enrolled or removed from an LEP
  program
• The requirement for an annual assessment of
  students is a Title I requirement the reporting
  requirements for the ELPA (English Language
  Proficiency Assessment) is a Title III requirement