Title I School Improvement ACET Fall Presentation October 2005

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Title I School ImprovementACET Fall
PresentationOctober 2005
WELCOME!
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• Anita Villarreal, Director
• Title I School Improvement School Support
• Texas Education Agency
• Division of NCLB Program Coordination
• Diane Pollard, DirectorSchool Improvement
  Resource Center
• ESC 13

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How Is A Campus Identified for School
Improvement (SIP)?

• Under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) ACT of
  2001, a Title I, Part A campus that has not met
  Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for two
  consecutive years in the same indicator (Reading,
  Mathematics, Attendance Rate, or Graduation Rate)
  is subject to Title I School Improvement
  Requirements.

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How Is A Campus NotifiedThat They Are In SIP?

• (All dates based on 2005 AYP/NCLB calendar
  subject to change for 2006-2007)
• Early August-Division of NCLB Program
  Coordination mails out a Possibility letter to
  the Superintendents
• August-Districts receive confidential preview
  data tables from TEA via TEASE

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How Is A Campus NotifiedThat They Are In SIP?
(Continued)

• August-TEA issues district and campus AYP/SIP
  status
• Division of NCLB faxes/mails a letter to
  Superintendent of campus status (prior to
  appeals)

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What Are The RequirementsFor SIP Campuses?

• Stage 1 Requirements
• School Choice
• Revision of Campus Improvement Plan
• Stage 2 Requirements
• All Stage 1 Requirements
• Supplementary Educational Services (SES)

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What Are The RequirementsFor SIP Campuses?
(Continued)

• Stage 3 Requirements
• All Stage 1 and Stage 2 Requirements
• Corrective Action
• Stage 4 Requirements
• All Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3 Requirements
• Restructuring

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School Choice

• Which campuses are required to offer public
  school choice?
• Which students are eligible to change campuses?
• Is there a priority for students to be allowed to
  transfer?

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School Choice (continued)

• How long must a school district continue to offer
  students in eligible Title I campuses the option
  to attend another public school?
• How long must students who change campuses be
  allowed to attend the campus of their choice?

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School Choice (continued)

• What if providing the option to transfer to
  another campus within the district is not
  possible?
• What if the other campuses do not have the
  capacity to accept students who request a
  transfer from a SIP school?

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Parent Notification Letter (PNL)

• When must the district send the parent
  notification letter?
• Parents must be notified by the Uniform School
  Start Date
• What information must the parent notification
  contain?

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Parent Notification (continued)

• Date of notification
• LEA name
• Campus name
• Contact information
• Authorized signature

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Parent Notification (continued)

• An explanation of what the AYP status means.
• How the campus compares in terms of academic
  achievement to other elementary campuses or
  secondary campuses served by the LEA.

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Parent Notification (continued)

• The reasons for the AYP status.
• An explanation of what the campus is doing to
  address the problem of low achievement.
• An explanation of what the LEA is doing to help
  the campus address the achievement problem.

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Parent Notification (continued)

• An explanation of how the parents can become
  involved in addressing the academic issues that
  cause the campus to be identified for
  improvement.
• An explanation of the parents option to transfer
  their child to another public school

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Parent Notification (continued)

• Contact information
• Timeline regarding school choice
• Provide a 30 day window for transfer response
  from parents (30 calendar days)

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Parent Notification Letter (continued)

• Provide campus names for School Choice, if
  applicable
• Supplementary education activities if unable to
  provide school choice
• Supplementary Educational Services (SES), if
  applicable

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Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

• Requirement for SIP campuses in Stage 2 or above
• What is SES?
• Is there a parent notification requirement?

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Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

• Who is eligible for SES services?
• How long must the campus provide SES services?

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Fiscal Requirements

• An LEA must expend an amount equal to 20 percent
  of its Title I, Part A current-year entitlement,
  unless a lesser amount is needed, for School
  Choice transportation and SES
• 5 percent for School Choice option
• 5 percent for SES
• 10 percent for School Choice option, SES, or
  both.

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Fiscal Requirements (continued)

• The campus must expend not less than 10 percent
  of the Title I, Part A campus allocation for each
  fiscal year that the campus is identified in
  improvement status for providing high-quality
  professional development to the campus principal
  and teachers.

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Fiscal Requirements (continued)

• The campus must contract with a SIRC approved
  external Technical Assistance Provider for the
  duration of the school improvement designation to
  assist the campus in the school improvement
  process and implementation of the revised campus
  improvement plan (CIP).

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Technical Assistance

• Provided by SIRC
• Provides support and assistance to school
  personnel and district representatives
• Orientation Sessions
• Best Practice Conference

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AYP Progress Key Dates

• (Dates based on 2005 School Year for discussion
  purposes only.)
• Mid/Late June-AYP Guide web only publication
• August 10-Preliminary Data Tables (TEASE)
• August 11-AYP/SIP Status for Districts and
  Campuses

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AYP Progress Key Dates (continued)

• September 16-Appeals Deadline
• Late November/Early December-AYP/SIP Status Update

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Application for Supplementary Title I SIP Funding

• Application available September 1 for 2005-2006
• Application deadline October 17, 2005, 500 P.M.
• Identify a technical assistance provider (TAP)
• Describe Needs Assessment
• Describe Identified Needs

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Application for Supplementary Title I SIP
Funding (continued)

• Title I, Part A supplementary funding for SIP
  campus
• Must be a Title I, Part A served campus
• Campus application
• Campus allocation

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Application for Supplementary Title I SIP
Funding (continued)

• Describe System of Reform
• Submit Parent Notification Letter
• Attend SIRCs SIP Process Workshop
• Attend Best Practice Conference

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District Level School Improvement Requirements

• Notification Letters
• Stage 1 Requirements
• Revise District Improvement Plan
• Stage 2 Requirements
• Implement Revised District Improvement Plan

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Resources Available

• Staff contacts
• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb/contacts.html
• NCLB Monday Email
• http//miller.tea.state.tx.us/list/

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Resources Available

• NCLB Website
• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb/
• Title I School Improvement Policy Guidance
• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb/SIP_Guidance0506.
  doc

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What If?

• The LEA cannot offer School Choice?
• The campus(s) that are available are overcrowded?
  
• The campus does not have a TAP by the application
  deadline?
• The campus did not include all the required
  information in the PNL?

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• Texas Education Agency
• Division of NCLB Program Coordination
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email nclb_at_tea.state.tx.us
• Website http//www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb/

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• Anita Villarreal
• NCLB Program Coordination Division
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email anita.villarreal_at_tea.state.tx.us

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• Texas School Improvement Resource Center
• 5701 Springdale Road
• Austin, Texas 78723-3675
• www.esc13.net/statewide/sirc
• Diane Pollard, Coordinator
• 512-919-5491
• Diane.pollard_at_esc13.txed.net