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Title I Program Overview

Slide # References/Documents/Materials for Annual Title I Meeting

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42-47Non-PI schools can delete these slides

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9-12 Adequate Yearly Progress Report http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ay

13 Title I support services described in the SPSA

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Introduce or prepare a slide of SSC membersPolicy Bulletin 4148.1, Advisory Committees and School Site CouncilsSingle Plan for Student Achievement—Action Steps

14 2009-2010 Categorical Budget

15 Introduce or prepare a slide of CEAC members and leaderships team members

15 Introduce or prepare a slide of CEAC meeting date and times

18 Introduce or prepare a slide of paraprofessionals and indicate content focus and/or grade level support

20-25 Review copy of the school’s Parent Involvement Policy

Targeted Assistance School Letter http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/instruct/sfp

25Reference Guide 1408.7: NCLB: Qualification for Teachers; Parent Notification Requirements and Right to Know Procedures; Annual Principal Certification Form

27-29 Program Improvement (PI) Notification

32 Corrective Action Plan (PI Year 3)

33 Restructuring Plan (PI Year 4)

The chart below provides a slide number and the corresponding documentation or suggestions of additional resources to be utilized at the Annual Title I meeting or throughout the academic year as topics at Compensatory Education Advisory Committee (CEAC) meetings.

This slide is for presenter use only and should be deleted prior to presentation.

2009-2010 Title I Program Overview

for Schoolwide Program (SWP) Schools

Federal and State Education Programs Branch


Purpose of the Overview

To inform local districts, schools, and parents about the requirements of the Title I Program

Major Landmarks in Federal Education

Reform 1965 – Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

provides first substantial aid for local schools, Title I, by far the biggest ESEA program, focuses on high-poverty areas.

2002 – No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 signed into law. Establishes minimum qualifications for teachers and paraprofessionals and sets goals for all children achieving at state-defined “proficient” level by end of school year 2013-2014.


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What is Title I?

“…is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments” NCLB 2001

Title I Part A is a federal program providing supplemental resources to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) i.e., school districts, assisting students in poverty to meet challenging state academic standards.

In order to access these funds, schools in LAUSD must have a poverty threshold of at least 40% based on free and reduced lunch applications and/or Calworks.

Schools that rank into Title I deliver supplemental services through a targeted assistance (TAS) program or a schoolwide program (SWP) model.



What are Supplemental Funds?

Over and above the general revenue funds the districts and schools receive to support the base program.

Granted to districts and to schools for specific program purposes and must be used only to support and enhance the district’s and school’s regular program.

May not be used to replace or supplant the funds and programs the district provides the schools.

What is Categorical Program Monitoring (CPM)?

The legal accountability process used by the California Department of Education (CDE) to monitor the Title I program operated by local education agencies (LEA). The process validates that:

– Title I funds are used for authorized purposes.– NCLB performance goals are achieved.


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Title I andAYP

Accountability

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ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS

The District uses results from statewide testing and other available indicators to annually determine whether schools funded by Title I, Part A are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) measured through the following four indicators:

– Participation Rate– Percent Proficient* – Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs)– Academic Performance Index – API– Graduation Rate (High Schools only)

*California Standards Test, California High School Exit Exam, California Alternate Performance Assessment


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Release of 2009 AYP Data

California Department of Education (CDE) will release AYP information on or about September 2, 2009. Middle School AYP reports may be delayed until the end of November 2009.

Access and print Accountability Progress Report (APR) at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ay/


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2009 – 2010 AYP Targets

Elementary/Middle Schools

Content Area English/Language Arts Mathematics

Participation Rate 95% 95%Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs)

Proficiency Targets 56.8% 58.0%

API Attain API growth of at least one point or minimum score of 680.


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2009 – 2010 AYP TargetsHigh Schools

Content Area English/Language Arts Mathematics

Participation Rate 95% 95%Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs)

Proficiency Targets 55.6% 54.8%

API Attain API growth of at least one point or minimum score of 680.

Graduation

Rate

All students will meet the Graduation Rate Criteria by meeting one of the following options:Option 1: Have a graduation rate of at least 83.2%Option 2: Show improvement in the rate from the previous year of at least 0.1Option 3: Show improvement in the rate of at least 0.2 in the average two-year rate


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Schoolwide Programs (SWP) Flexibility

Provide a comprehensive school plan to upgrade all the instruction in a high-poverty school, without distinguishing between eligible and ineligible children.

The school plan will include: ■ Comprehensive needs assessment■ Scientifically-based instructional methods■ Strategies to address all students■ Use of resources and implementation

Single Plan for Student Achievement(SPSA)


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The SSC is required to collaboratively develop and approve the SPSA with written advice from appropriate school advisory committees. Expenditures described in the SPSA must be aligned to data that will address specific needs and annually evaluated. (BUL-4148.1: Advisory Committees and School Site Councils)

SPSA Budgets


Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)

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Compensatory Education Advisory Committee (CEAC) must provide written recommendations to the SSC on an on-going basis using analysis of school data, surveys, etc. to develop/modify the SPSA, including Title I budgets. (BUL-4148.1: Advisory Committees and School Site Councils)

Single Plan for Student Achievement


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Title I SWP and

Highly Qualified Teachers

and Paraprofessionals

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Teacher Qualifications

Teachers should be highly qualified at the time of employment.

All teachers teaching core academic areas in Title I schools must meet the highly qualified standard. As of June 30, 2007, teachers in core academic areas in all schools must meet that standard.


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Paraprofessional Qualifications

As of June 30, 2006, all paraprofessionals must be highly qualified.

All new hires are required to pass the District Proficiency Test and must meet the following criteria:

– HS diploma/GED AND– Have 60 semester or 90 quarter units from a recognized college or

university OR– Have an associate (or higher) degree from a recognized college or

university OR– Pass the Instructional Assistance Test

Duties: – Provides instruction only if under the direct supervision of a “highly

qualified teacher


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Title I SWP and

ParentInvolvement

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Required Elements of

Parent InvolvementLAUSD adopted a district-wide Title I Parent Involvement Policy for parents in April 2006. This policy should be annually distributed to parents.

The District’s annual Parent Student Handbook also provides parents with information on parental involvement and NCLB mandates.

Each Title I, Part A funded school must develop, jointly with parents of children receiving Title I services, a written school parental involvement policy that describes how the school will carry out the parental involvement requirements in No Child Left Behind, Section 1118. The requirements consist of four components:

– Involvement [of parents in the policy]– School-Parent Compact– Building Capacity for Involvement– Accessibility [for parents]


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A copy may be found at Inside LAUSD

BUL-2680.0

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Each Title I, Part A funded school must provide parents of participating children:

Timely information about Title I, Part A funded programsA description and explanation of:

– the curriculum in use at the school– the forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress, and– the proficiency levels students are expected to meet

School Parent Involvement Policy


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School Parent Involvement Policy

Each Title I, Part A funded school must notify parents of its written parent involvement policy in an understandable and uniform format in a language the parents can understand. The policy must also be made available to the local community.

Each Title I, Part A funded school must involve parents by convening an annual meeting to inform parents of the following:

– the school’s participation in the Title I, Part A program– the requirements of Title I, Part A– the rights of parents to be involved.

Parents must be involved in an organized, ongoing, and timely way in the planning, review and improvement of the school’s Title I program.


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Parents Right to Know

No Child Left Behind mandates that Title I, Part A funded schools give parents timely notice when their child has been assigned, or has been taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified. (REF 1408.7: NCLB: Qualification for Teachers; Parent Notification Requirements and Right to Know Procedures: Annual Principal Certification Form)

LAUSD parents may make written requests and receive information regarding the qualifications of their child’s teacher (i.e., credential, degree, and major).


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At-risk for PI or PI Years 1-5 Schools Only

Title I Accountability

and Program

Improvement (PI)

No Child Left Behind

NCLB enacted rigid mandates holding schools, districts and states accountable for improving student achievement.

A school is identified as PI if it does not make AYP for two consecutive years in the same content area or indicator.


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Program Improvement Requirements

PI schools are required to send written notification informing parents of the school’s status. The notification must include the following:

– The reasons for PI identification;– What the school is doing and the district and/or state is doing to

help the school address the achievement problem;– How parents can become involved in addressing the academic

issues that caused the school to be identified for PI;– The parents’ option to transfer their child with paid

transportation to a Non-PI school (PI Years 1-5 schools);– The parents’ option to obtain supplemental educational services

(PI Years 2-5 schools).Federal and State Education Programs Branch

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Additional Program Improvement (PI)

Requirements

Public School Choice (PSC) is offered annually to all students attending a PI school.

Supplemental Educational Services (SES) is offered to eligible students attending a school in PI Years 2-5.


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PI Year 1 schools must: – Submit an updated Single Plan for Student

Achievement (SPSA) within three months of identification

– Set aside 10 percent of the Title I budget for professional development

– Offer Public School Choice

PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT YEAR 1


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Continue to implement Program Improvement Year 1 SPSA Update

Offer Public School Choice Offer Supplemental Educational Services to

eligible students


PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT YEAR 2

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In addition to offering PSC and SES, the District must take

at least one of the following corrective actions at PI Year 3 schools:

– Replace some school staff– Implement a new curriculum– Decrease the school’s management authority– Appoint an outside expert– Extend the school day or year; or,– Restructure the internal organization of the school

PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT YEAR 3CORRECTIVE ACTION


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After a third year in PI, the District must continue to offer PSC and SES and prepare a restructuring plan to take at least one of the following actions:

– Reopen the school as a charter school– Replace all or most of the staff– Turn management over to a private company or– Any other major restructuring of the school’s governance

arrangement that makes fundamental reforms

PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT YEAR 4 PREPARING FOR RESTRUCTURING


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After a fourth year in PI, the District must:

– Implement Restructuring Plan developed in Year 4

– Offer Public School Choice– Offer Supplemental Educational Services

PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT YEAR 5RESTRUCTURING


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At-risk for PI or PI Year 1-5 Schools Only

Title I andPublic School

Choice

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PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE (PSC)

If school does not make AYP for two consecutive years:

– The District must provide students who are enrolled in PI Years 1 - 5 schools the option to transfer to a Non-Program Improvement school.

Student Integration Services

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PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE

■ All students, including special education, enrolled in PI schools are eligible.

■ Priority is given to lowest achieving students from low-income families.

■ Paid transportation is provided by the District for students who choose PSC.

■ Students who choose the option to transfer will be enrolled in classes and other activities in the same manner as all other children at the school.

■ Parents must be notified in a language that is understandable, before the beginning of the school year.


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School options– The district is responsible for identifying the

schools of choice options and arranging for transportation—free of cost to the parent.

– All schools at risk are identified in the CHOICES brochure. Parents can exercise the option to transfer their child to a Non-PI school.

PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE


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PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICELAUSD Timeline

November 2009 – All students enrolled in an LAUSD school will receive the CHOICES brochure by US mail. The brochure contains a list of currently identified At-Risk for PI and PI schools.

The deadline to return the CHOICES application is December 18, 2009.

Parents of students enrolled in At-Risk for PI or PI schools have the right not only to PSC but all other traveling programs.


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PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE LAUSD Application Process

Parents complete and return CHOICES application by December 18, 2009.

Student Integration Services processes the application.

Student Integration Services sends a Selection Letter identifying the Non-PI school selections. Achievement data is provided in order to assist in the selection decision.

Parents return Selection Letter identifying school of choice.

Student Integration Services sends Confirmation Letter confirming school of choice.

Transportation Branch sends notification to parents prior to the beginning of the school year.


PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICEImplications for Non-PI Schools

NCLB requires that all students enrolled in PI schools be given the opportunity to attend a non-PI school in the District, with paid transportation.

Students who choose the option to transfer will be enrolled in classes and other activities in the same manner as all other children at the Non-PI school.

Once a student has transferred to another school as a result of this provision, the District must permit that student to remain in that school until the child has completed the highest grade offered by that school. However paid transportation ends once the original school is no longer identified as program improvement.


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PI Year 1-5 Schools Only

Title I andSupplemental Educational

Services

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SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (SES)

Beginning with PI year 2 schools, the District is required to offer supplemental educational services for eligible students. SES providers are state-approved and choose to work with LAUSD students. Parents select the provider to deliver services to their children.

A Student Learning Plan is developed for each student in consultation with the SES provider and the parent.

Beyond the Bell Branch

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SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

LAUSD Implementation

Notify parents of eligible students (those students at Program Improvement Schools eligible for free and reduced-price meals) by May 31st of availability of supplemental educational services.

Provide a description of each approved provider, their qualifications and effectiveness.

Provide parents assistance, if requested, and establish a fair and equitable system for serving students if a given provider does not have space.

Work with provider and parents to establish measurable achievement goals for each student.


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SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONALSERVICES

LAUSD Implementation (cont’d)

Establish an agreed upon timetable for achieving the goals. Establish how progress will be measured and reported back to

both the parents and teacher. Establish a termination process if goals are not met. Establish a payment schedule for providers.

Parents of students eligible for SES will be strongly encouraged to choose a provider. If parents decide not to have their child participate, they can indicate this decision on the SES Request Form.


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SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONALSERVICES

Timeline for 2009-2010

March/April: Notify Program Improvement Schools of the SES program April/May: Work with providers who wish to service LAUSD who will be state

approved by May 8, 2009 May: Produce the SES Parent Request Brochure May 30: US mail Supplemental Educational Services brochure to parents of

eligible students June: Provide schools with lists, extra brochures and labels June: Deliver K brochures to multi-track schools August: Deliver K brochures to single-track schools Jun/Aug/Oct: Establish provider lists and “rank” students (low-income & low-

achieving) if “oversubscribed” Deadlines: 5:00 p.m. : June 30/August 31/October 16, 2009


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Title I Part A Internet Support Sites

AYP Reports http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ay

Beyond the Bell Branch http://btb.lausd.net

Certificated Employment http://www.teachinla.com

Federal and State Education Programs(formerly Specially Funded Programs)

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/instruct/sfp Paraprofessionals

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/personnel/class Program Improvement Support

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/instruct/sfp

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LAUSD Contacts

Human Resources, Certificated Teachers NCLB Unit (213) 241-2062

Federal and State Education Programs Branch (213) 241-

6990

– Program Improvement Support, Maureen Carter

– Schoolwide Program Schools, Alice Turner

– Targeted Assistance Schools, Maureen Carter

Paraprofessionals, Leticia Galvan (213) 353-4218

Parent Involvement, Christopher Downing (213) 481-3350

Public School Choice, Dr. Debbie Dillard (213) 241-6990

Supplemental Education Services, Luis Mora (213) 241-

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federal program

annual title

highquality education

local schools

base program

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nonpi schools

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