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Laurel Elementary has a School-wide Title I Program.
What is a School-wide Program? School-wide is an alternative use of federal funds focusing on learning needs of all students. The school-wide option enables schools to integrate programs, strategies, and resources to support high quality education for all students. The law specifically allows our school to:
- Use Title I funds to upgrade the school's entire educational programs
- Use Title I funds to serve any and all students at the school
- Combine Title I funds with other federal, state, and local resources to upgrade the entire school program and to help ALL students meet the state's challenging standards
- have school-wide programs which focus on the needs of students by ensuring that every student succeeds
No two are alike, but the best are:
- Driven by rigorous standards for upgrading the instructional program of the entire school
- Flexible, offering a high-quality curriculum geared to bringing students to the challenging levels of knowledge set for them
- Comprehensively planned, using available federal program resources to support cohesive instruction
- Results-oriented, increasing the achievement of children in the targeted groups that federal education programs were intended to serve
Under Title I of the 1994 re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), participating schools serving 50% of students from low-income families can become school-wide programs to expand the flexibility and quality of the education they offer students.
Key Features of Successful School-wide Programs:
- An agreed-upon vision for all students, based on higher academic standards and adequate designs and plans to implement the vision
- A clear focus on academic achievement
- Extended planning and collaborative program design
- A well-defined organization and management structure
- A strong professional community
- Cultural inclusiveness
- Parent and community involvement
- Evidence of school and student success
- School-wide Project Components
- Provide opportunities for ALL CHILDREN
- Effective means of improving achievement
- Effective instructional strategies
- Increase the amount and quality of learning time
- Help provide an enriched and accelerated curriculum
- Meet the educational needs of historically and under served populations
- Address the needs of ALL CHILDREN
- Designed to implement local improvement plans