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TITLE I
Improving Academic Achievement of
Disadvantaged Students
[Title
I Schools 2007-2008]
The District receives federal financial
resources through the Oklahoma State Department of
Education to serve
schools with high numbers or percentages of poor
children to help ensure that all children meet
challenging State academic content and student
academic achievement standards.
Our District targets the Title I funds to public schools with the highest
percentages of children from low-income families.
Unless a participating school is operating a school
wide program, the school must focus Title I
services on children who are failing, or most at
risk of failing, to meet State academic standards.
Locally, schools enrolling at least 56 percent of students
from poor families are eligible to use Title I funds
for programs that serve children in
the school.
In OKCPS, Title I services reach
more than
32,000
students enrolled in both public and private
schools. Title I funds are used for children from
preschool age to high school, but most of the
students served (63 percent) are in grades 1 through
5. During the 2007-2008 school year 83 of 91
Oklahoma City's schools will receive Title I
services. Title I resources can be used for
increased help for students performing below
standard; assistance for after school, summer school
or extended day programs; implementation of
exemplary reading and math programs; class size
reduction; hiring paraprofessionals; and
professional development for teachers, principals
and paraprofessionals.
Title I is designed to support
State and local school reform efforts tied to
challenging State academic standards in order to
reinforce and amplify efforts to improve teaching
and learning for students farthest from meeting
State standards. Individual public schools may use Title I
funds along with other Federal, State, and local
funds, to operate a "schoolwide program" to
upgrade the instructional program for the whole
school, or
those choosing not to operate a schoolwide program,
offer a "targeted assistance program" in which the
school identifies students who are failing, or most
at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging
performance standards, then designs, in consultation
with parents, staff, and district staff, an
instructional program to meet the needs of those
students. Both schoolwide and targeted assistance
programs must be based on effective means of
improving student achievement and include strategies
to support parental involvement.
Under Title I, the District is required to provide services for
eligible private school students, as well as
eligible public school students. In particular,
section 1120 of Title I, Part
A of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child
Left Behind Act (NCLB), requires districts to
provide eligible children attending private
elementary and secondary schools, their teachers,
and their families with Title I services or other
benefits that are equitable to those provided to
eligible public school children, their teachers, and
their families. These services are developed in
consultation with officials of the private schools.
The Title I services provided by the District for private
school participants are designed to meet their
educational needs and supplement the educational
services provided by the private school. For
additional information on services to eligible
private school children, see the U.S. Department of
Education
Office of Non-Public Education
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