1. Title I Program Overview for TAS
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 School Site Council (SSC) meetings.
Memorandum Notification of Federal Title I Parent Involvement Mandates
This slide is for presenter use only and should be deleted prior to presentation.
Slide #
References/Documents/Materials for Annual Title I Meeting 5
Personalization slide
Provide and share the school’s Title I ranking (the percentage that generated the current year Title I allocation) and the Title I allocation
19-21
Review copy of the school’s Parent and Family Engagement Policy 11
Introduce or prepare a slide of SSC members
Explain that the Consolidated Application (ConApp) is a school district document that allows state and federal funds to flow from CDE to school districts
Policy Bulletin : Guidelines for the Required English Learner Advisory Committee and School Site Council 22
Insert and discuss the school’s E046 expenditures 12
SPSA—cycle of process 23
List parent and family engagement activities planned for the school year (i.e., Math night, Back to School night, Open House, SSC meetings, parent workshops, etc.) 13
List school’s Title I [7S046] expenditures that the school has budgeted from the Title I allocation 27
Introduce or prepare a slide of paraprofessionals and indicate content focus and/or grade level support
TAS Program School Letter at fsep.lausd.net 29
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2. Title I Annual Meeting 2017-2018 Title I Program Overview for Targeted Assistance Schools (TAS)
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3. Purpose of the Overview
To inform parents about the Title I Program and its requirements
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4. What is Title I?
“…is to provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps.” Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Title I, Part A provides supplemental federal funds to help meet the educational needs of low-achieving students in the highest-poverty schools.
In order to access Title I funds, LAUSD schools must have a poverty threshold of at least 50% based on free- and reduced price meal 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.
Note: New schools that opened or new to Title I during the school
year are TAS. 4
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5. School’s Poverty Ranking and Title I Allocation
Provide and share the school’s poverty ranking
and Title I allocation 5
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6. Who Receives Title I Services?
Although schools are eligible for Title I funding based on poverty, the selection process for providing Title I services to students is not based on low-income. It is based entirely on academic achievement. 6
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7. What are Supplemental Funds?
Additional monies above the general funds districts and schools receive to support the regular 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 to all schools.
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8. Targeted Assistance School (TAS)8

9. The Two Title I Models for Serving Students
May serve All Students at the School based on the needs assessment but must address the needs of students most at risk.
Supplemental Funds
Schoolwide Program (SWP)
Supplemental Services
Serve Identified Title I Students based on multiple objective criteria
Targeted Assistance Program
(TAS)

10. Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) Targeted Assistance School (TAS)
Develop a school plan to provide Title I funded services only to students identified as Title I–eligible.
In a TAS school, a student is eligible for Title I services if identified by
the school staff as failing or most at-risk of failing to meet the state
achievement standards based on multiple academic measures.
The plan will include the following:
Effective methods and instructional strategies based on research that strengthens the core academic program
Provide opportunities for professional development for staff who work with participating students
Primary consideration for extending learning time
Review progress of Title I participants
Provide strategies to increase parental involvement
Implementation of an accelerated, high-quality curriculum in English Language Arts and Mathematics for Title I participants
Annual evaluation and revision of the SPSA 10
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11. Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)
California Education Code requires that districts receiving state, federal and other applicable funding through the Consolidated Application (ConApp) process ensure that participating schools write a SPSA.
California Education Code requires these schools to establish a School Site Council (SSC) as the decision-making council for all programs funded through the ConApp.
The School Site Council (SSC) is responsible for developing, reviewing, and approving the SPSA with written advice from appropriate school advisory committees.
Expenses described in the SPSA must be aligned to data that will address specific needs and must be annually evaluated. 11
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12. The Cycle of Continuous Improvement in the Development of the SPSA
Conduct Comprehensive Needs Assessment
(Data analysis and SPSA Evaluation)
Develop Measurable Objectives and Identify Strategies/Actions/Tasks in the SPSA Goal Pages
Develop Budget Based Upon Prioritized Expenditures that Support the Strategies/Actions/Tasks Described in the Goals
Monitor implementation
Identify Expenditures in the SPSA and Ensure Expenditures are Aligned with the Strategies/Actions/Tasks in the Goals
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13. 2017-2018 School’s Title I Allocation and Expenditures
List and discuss school’s Title I Expenditures [7S046]
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14. Title I TAS and Parent Involvement14

15. What is Parent and Family Engagement?
Meaning under ESSA:
The term, parent and family engagement, means the participation of parents and family members in regular, two-way and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities.
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16. District Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy
LAUSD adopted a Districtwide Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy for parents on December 11, This policy is annually distributed to
parents and is required for Title I schools.
The policy describes how the District will:
- Involve parents in the LEA Plan
- Provide coordination and technical assistance to schools for
parent involvement
- Build parent & school capacity
- Annually evaluate the policy
- Involve parents in Title I school activities
The District’s annual Parent Student Handbook also provides parents with
information on parental involvement and ESSA mandates.
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17. District Parent and Family Engagement Policy17 17

18. 2017-2018 Parent-Student Handbook

19. School Parent and Family Engagement Policy
In addition to the District Parent and Family Engagement Policy, each Title I school must develop, jointly with parents and family members of children receiving Title I services, a written school parent and family engagement policy that describes how the school will carry out the parental and family involvement requirements in Every Student Succeeds Act, Section 1116.
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20. School Parent and Family Engagement Policy Requirements
School-level policies must:
Be jointly developed & distributed to parents
Describe how school will carry out
requirements
Be provided to parents in an understandable
language
Be “periodically” updated
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21. Required School-level Activities
Annual Title I Meeting
Information about the Title I Program
Training on curriculum & assessment
Opportunity to request meetings
School-Parent Compact
Capacity Building
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22. Required Set-Aside for Parent Involvement
(Program Code 7E046)
Title I TAS schools are required to set aside 1%
of Title I funds to support their Title I Parent
Involvement Policy
The following are the expenditures from this
year’s allocation: (insert school’s E046 expenditures)
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23. 2017-2018 School Parent Involvement Activities
Insert and discuss parent engagement activities planned for the school year (i.e., Math night, Back to School night, Open House, SSC meetings, parent workshops, etc.)
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24. Parents’ Right to Know
ESSA requires Title I, Part A schools to notify parents at the beginning of each school year that they may request information about the qualifications of their children’s teachers and paraprofessionals who provide educational assistance to their children.
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25. and Paraprofessionals
Title I TAS
and Teachers
and Paraprofessionals 25

26. Teacher Qualifications
Teachers should meet applicable State certification and licensure requirements at the time of employment.
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27. Paraprofessional Qualifications
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
*new hires with a Bachelor’s degree or higher do not need to take the District Proficiency Test
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28. Accountability -Academic Achievement -English Learner Progress
-Suspensions
-Graduation
-College/Career Readiness
-Chronic Absenteeism 28

29. New State Accountability System
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a federal law that goes into effect beginning in California will finalize the State Plan under ESSA in September 2017.
The State Plan will include many components, including the description of the new accountability system, which will include:
New data points for accountability based on the California School Dashboard (available at caschooldashboard.org)
How the State will meet the requirement of identifying and supporting the lowest-performing schools and schools with low subgroup performance (beginning in ).
will be a transition year to the new accountability system. 29
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30. School Data
Insert and discuss school’s data (suspension rate, attendance rate, report card grades, SBAC data, other data sources such as California Dashboard. The State will update the California Dashboard in November/December, though it may be beneficial to introduce families to the Dashboard )
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31. YOU ARE OUR PARTNERS
At LAUSD, schools and families are working together to ensure all students are college-prepared and career-ready. Together we can equip our students with the foundation of skills needed for the 21st century.

32. Resources
For additional questions regarding the school’s Title I Program, please contact the Principal or designee.
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