Overview
Federally Funded NCLB Programs in Shelby County Schools
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act
of 2001 is a federal law that includes several grants
(Title Programs) for states and school districts. Our
system receives some of these federal funds from five
Title Programs: Title I A, Title II A, Title II D,
Title III A, and Title IV A.
Funds for these programs are intended to
ensure that all children have the opportunity to
obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency
on challenging state academic standards and assessments.
These programs are designed to improve:
- academic achievement,
- reading skills,
- professional development,
- mathematics and science teaching,
- technologically savvy educational practices,
- English language acquisition,
- safety,
- parent involvement, and
- overall educational reform.
Title I A
Improving the Academic Achievement of the Economically
Disadvantaged
Title I, Part A provides formula grants to districts.
Districts (systems) then allocate funds to Title I schools
based on their number of low-income children. The district
must use Title I funds only in high poverty schools that
have been selected for services through allowable procedures.
Title I provides flexible funding to provide additional
instructional staff, professional development, extended-time
programs, and other strategies for raising student achievement
in high-poverty schools.
Focuses of the program:
- Promotes school wide reform in high-poverty schools
- Ensures students’ access to scientifically
based instructional strategies and challenging academic
content.
- Acts as a mechanism for holding states, school districts,
and schools accountable for improving the academic
achievement of all students
- Is a mechanism for turning around low-performing
schools
- Provides alternatives to students in low-performing
schools to enable those students to receive a high-quality
education.
Title I funds may be used for a variety of services
and activities, most commonly for instruction in reading
and mathematics. The legislation encourages the use of
strategies such as extended day (before and after school
programs), extended year, and summer programs to increase
learning time.
Title I N & D
Neglected and Delinquent Children
This program provides financial assistance to educational
programs for youths in state-operated institutions or
community day programs.
The program provides financial assistance:
- To support collaboration between systems' and locally
operated correctional facilities.
- To districts with high numbers or percentages of
child and youth in locally operated juvenile correctional
facilities, including facilities involved in community
day program
Title II, Part
A
Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting
Title II, Part A, increases student achievement by improving
teacher and principal quality through recruitment,
hiring, and retention strategies.
The program:
- Uses scientifically based professional development
interventions
- Holds districts and schools accountable for improvements
in student academic performance.
- Was created because research shows that teacher quality
is correlated with student academic achievement (Sanders
and Rivers, 1996.)
- Was designed to address the variety of challenges
found in each community with respect to teacher quality.
- Allows funds to be used for a wide array of interventions.
Title II, Part
D
Enhancing Education Through Technology
The principal goal of this program is to improve student
academic achievement through technology in elementary
and secondary schools.
This program:
- Was designed to assist every student in becoming
technologically literate by the end of eighth grade.
- Encourages the effective integration of technology
resources in teacher training and professional development
to establish research-based instructional models.
- Supports the use of technology for promoting parental
involvement and managing data for informed decision-making.
- Targets funds primarily to school districts that
serve concentrations of poor students
Title III, Part
A,
English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement and
Academic Achievement
Title III, Part A, assists school districts in teaching
English to limited English proficient (LEP) students.
Helps LEP students meet the same challenging state standards
required of all students.
This program:
- Funds high-quality language instruction programs
that are based on effective research, which increases
English proficiency and student achievement.
- These funds also provide high-quality professional
development to classroom teachers, principals, administrators,
and other school or community-based organizational
personnel in order to improve the instruction and assessment
of limited English proficient students.
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Here for more information about our English as
a Second Language (ESL) program.
Title IV, Part
A
Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
The Title IV, Part A, Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Act supports programs to prevent:
- Violence in and around schools;
- The illegal use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco by
young people; and
- Foster a safe and drug-free learning environment
that supports academic achievement.
Funds are used to support a variety of initiatives including
substance abuse, violence, counseling and student assistance
programs.
Private Schools
The No Child
Left Behind Act of 2001
Benefits to Private School Students and Teachers
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as
reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,
provides benefits to private school students, teachers
and other education personnel, including those in religiously
affiliated schools. The following information provides
explanations of some of the law's provisions and brief
summaries of relevant ESEA programs.
- These services are considered assistance to students
and teachers and not to private schools.
- The reauthorized ESEA requires the equitable participation
of private school students, teachers and other education
personnel in some of its major programs.
The current Title Programs that Private
Schools participate in with Shelby County Schools acting
as the LEA are: Title IA, Title IIA, Title IID, and Title
IVA.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, No Child Left
Behind: A Desktop Reference (www.ed.gov).
