
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 six Title Programs: Title I A, Title II
A, Title II D, Title III A, Title IV A, and
Title V 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 programs.
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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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.
Title V, Part A
Innovative Programs
This program assists local education reform
efforts that supports statewide reform efforts
and promising education reform programs.
As a continuing resource, it, can be used in
a broad range of activities which:
- Encourages innovation and educational
improvement to help meet the needs of special
education and at-risk and students,
- Supports
programs to improve school, student, and
teacher performance.
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, Title IVA, and Title VA.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, No Child
Left Behind: A Desktop Reference (www.ed.gov).
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