Originally posted by Rockne:
Title 1 money is often spent to support growing parent involvement, as research is clear on the benefits of increased involvement.

A ton of schools and districts have been utilizing our new PTO Manager ( www.ptomanager.com ) software as a Title 1 expense. Great fit.

Tim

Gonna havta check this out, I was under the assumption (and I've read and researched Title I)
it only textbooks, materials, etc.
That's cool.
Volume discount if I can get the District to add it to our Parent Center program and grant??

[ 11-05-2005, 08:30 AM: Message edited by: Shawn ]

Thank You for all the info . We actually were granted 4,055.00. Our area is rural and we had our budget approved yesterday with the school board, we budgeted for literature- muffins with mom, donuts with dad and goodies with grandparents, its a program where the parent comes into the school and reads with their child, each child recieves a book, etc, its being used for our PTO meetings, parent attendance awards, volunteer apprieciation dinner, and volunteer lunch acct. at our school when parents volunteer.Thank You again it helped relieve our regular PTO budget.

Title I (Part A) is the largest federal program in K-12 education, funded at more than $11 billion in the 2003-04 school year. In the 1998-99 school year, the most recent year for which data has been released, 13,081 districts and 46,656 schools received Title I funds.

Several smaller programs, including literacy programs and migrant education, are grouped under the Title I umbrella in terms of how the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is structured, and there are administrative ties between the programs in most states and districts. But the main Title I program, the program that is generally thought of as “Title I,” is Part A, which sends money to school districts based on Census counts of children from low-income families and children in several smaller categories, such as foster children and those living in correctional institutions.

The money is intended to improve the quality of education in high-poverty schools and/or give extra help to struggling students. Districts generally must serve schools with the highest poverty rates first and give them proportionately more funding.

Many Title I schools focus supplementary services on specific children. Within a school, children are selected based on educational need, usually according to test scores. Schools most frequently provide extra instruction in reading or mathematics, sometimes outside regular school hours. Title I can also fund such services as counseling or preschool programs; schools are required to spend some money on parent involvement activities and professional development for teachers and paraprofessionals.

Schools with at least 40 percent poor children (or fewer, with a waiver) can operate “schoolwide programs,” using their funding — in combination with other federal funds, if desired — to upgrade the entire school. Since the 1994 ESEA reauthorization dropped the threshold from 75 percent to 50 percent, the number of schoolwide programs has burgeoned from about 3,200 to more than 19,000.

Anything and Everything you dd and didnt want to know about Title I

Can I ask a dumb question? What it Title 1?

Thank You, can we use it to publish a parent newsletter ?

Title 1 money is often spent to support growing parent involvement, as research is clear on the benefits of increased involvement.

A ton of schools and districts have been utilizing our new PTO Manager ( www.ptomanager.com ) software as a Title 1 expense. Great fit.

Tim