Title I: Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
Title l Grant Program 2024-2025
OBJECTIVES:
The Title l grant program promotes school-wide reform in high-poverty schools and ensure students' access to scientifically based strategies and challenging academic content.
The Title l grant program provides a system to hold states, school districts, and schools accountable for improving the academic achievement of all students and turning around low-performing schools, while providing alternatives to students in such schools to enable those students to receive a high-quality education.
The Title l grant program supplements District and State funds. All services students would receive in the absence of Title l must be in place before Title l funds are used.
Title l supports school efforts to ensure:
All children meet challenging academic standards.
All children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education.
Additional resources for high poverty schools are offered to enhance educational opportunities for disadvantaged students.
Title l provides flexible funding that may be used for:
Additional instructional staff
Professional development
Extended-time programs
Family and Community engagement strategies
Other strategies for raising student achievement in high-poverty school