Title I, Part A

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Title I, Part A
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Title I, Part AImproving Basic Programs

• INTENT AND PURPOSE Title I, Part A provides
  supplemental resources to local education
  agencies to help schools with high concentration
  of students from low-income families provide high
  quality education which will enable all children
  to meet the state student performance standards.
  Title 1 supports campuses in implementing either
  a school-wide or a targeted assistance program.
  All of Galena Park campuses meet the school-wide
  criteria of 40 economically disadvantage
  families.
• GENERAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
• Implement Parents Right-to-Know (teacher
  qualifications, notice if not certified, TAKS
  reports, level of achievement)

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Title I, Part A

• Develop school-parent compacts jointly with
  parents
• Provide information to parents in the language
  parents understand
• Develop local education agency and campus Parent
  Involvement Policies
• Integrate and coordinate Title I professional
  development and services with other programs
• Provide additional assistance to students
  identified as needing help in meeting the states
  challenging student academic achievement
  standards
• Include a plan for meeting HQ teacher requirement

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Title I, Part ACampus Improvement Plan

• Must Include
• Ten components of a School-wide Program
• Describe how the school will use Title I, A
  resources and other sources to implement ten
  components
• Include list of state and federal programs whose
  funds will be combined to implement campus
  program (comp.ed., special ed. Title)
• Include sufficient activities to address the
  needs of the intended beneficiaries of the
  federal programs whose funds are combined to
  upgrade the entire education program

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Title I, Part A Allocation 06-07

• Maximum entitlement planning amount
• May 2007 4,113,355
• 06-07 4,248,695
• -135,340
• Where funds are allocated
• Payroll-6100
• Salaries for campus staff, district adm. staff,
  extra duty for tutoring, substitutes for
  absences/staff development, and summer school
  extra duty

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Title I, Part A Allocation

• Contracted Services 6200
• Youth Social Workers (4) and campus and district
  staff development

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Title I, Part AAllocations

• Instructional Materials 6300
• Campus instructional materials
• Staff Development 6400
• Staff Development for campuses and district-wide
• Indirect Cost - allowable cost retained by the
  district

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Title I, Part A

• Funding Requirements, Activities Conducted with
  Reserved Funds
• 1 set aside for Parent Involvement
• Professional Development
• Pre-School Support
• School-wide activities

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Title I, Part A Allocations

• Campuses allocations for staff and programs are
  based on a per pupil amount X number of
  economically disadvantaged students.

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Title II,A

• Preparing, Training and Recruiting High Quality
  Teachers/Principals

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NCLB 2001

• Combined several existing programs designed to
  improve the quality of teaching and recruitment
  of good teachers including Eisenhower
  Professional Development program and Class Size
  Reduction Programs
• Previously, Title II funds have been divided
  between elementary class size reduction teachers,
  staff development in the content areas, and
  recruitment

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2007-2008

• Committee of parents, principal representatives,
  central office staff met to evaluate needs for
  07-08
• Using critical areas of science and math as a
  guide, criteria was developed to determine where
  class size reduction teachers needed most (also
  with understanding of teachers had to be
  reduced because of reduction in Title II funds)
• Results Secondary had greatest of students in
  math science classes, with lower TAKS scores

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Title II, Part A

• Plan
• Add 7 math/science specialists to secondary
  schools to supplement the existing district
  specialists who would be assigned to a single
  campus.

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Title II, Part A

• Continue staff development in content areas
  Math, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies
• Reserve funds to assist teachers in becoming
  certified in math/science

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Safe and Civil Schools Foundations
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Safe and Civil Schools Foundations

• Foundations implemented on every campus
• For 07-08, formation of District Advisory
  Committee Bryan Clements, Paul Drexler, Randy
  Burchfield, Orphalinda Bazan, Crystal Murray, Dr.
  Carol Booth, Maryland Hendrix

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Foundations

• Focus on collaboration between district security
  and Foundation teams to strengthen safety and
  appropriate behavior on campuses
• Continue to contract with consultant with
  Foundations to train new staff, and provide
  advanced training to current team members

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Foundations

• Continue CHAMPS training for all new teachers.
  CHAMPS is available to campus staff when
  requested by the principal

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IDEA-B and IDEA-B Preschool

• Special EducationFederal Funds2007-08

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Purpose of IDEA-B Funds

• Supplements educational and behavioral programs
  that support the I.E.P.s of students with
  disabilities

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Funds Support

• 6100 - Supplementary Salaries
• Provide added staff to campuses with unique
  needs, summer programs, substitutes for staff
  development, stipends, extra duty for tutoring,
  district specialists for instruction, LifeSkills,
  behavior, appraisal

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Funds Support

• 6200 Contracted Services
• Contracts for non-public day schools Avondale
  (autistic students), New Day, Shiloh, Adaptive
  Behavior Center, Triple E, Consultants
• 6300 Supplies
• Instructional materials for campuses, technology

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Funds Support

• 6400 Travel and Staff Development
• Staff development and travel for special
  education staff
• 6600 Capital Outlay
• Specialized equipment for students visually
  impaired adapted equipment for students physical
  disabilities, assistive technology

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Programming 07-08

• RtI Response to Intervention
• Collaborative with general education for
  implementation on all elementary campuses.
• Collaborative/Co-Teaching Model
• Begin implementation, continue training campus
  staff to include more students in general
  education
• Each campus will have a plan

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Programming 07-08

• Improve transition from school to appropriate
  post-school education and career pathways for
  secondary students
• Working with campuses individually on 06-07 state
  assessment data for determining student academic
  needs, tutorials, and determining appropriate
  assessments for 07-08
• Continue tutorials, summer programs