Title I of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA/ESEA) is a federal funding program designed to close achievement gaps and ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education. The largest part of the Title I program, part A allocates funding to districts and other local educational agencies (LEAs) according to a formula based on numbers/percentages of children from low-income families.
At this time Williams Bay Elementary and Williams Bay Middle School receive Title I funds to operate Targeted Assistance Programs, which provide services to a subgroup of identified students. Students at these schools that have demonstrated a need for additional support qualify for services under the Title I grant.
Students who are identified as “at-risk” and/or “failing to meet expectations” as identified by the district reading and/or math assessments, as well as classroom curriculum based common formative and summative assessments are eligible for supplemental reading and/or math services. Parents of identified students are informed and consulted concerning services and targeted interventions.
District schools that qualify for Title I services use the Title I funds to provide highly qualified teachers who provide student support through small group and individual instruction outside of the core reading and/or math instruction. Student progress and growth on monitored on a regular basis.
Reading interventions may include: Early Reading Intervention (Wright Group), Leveled Literacy Intervention (F&P), Heggerty Phonics, Corrective Reading, and other strategy based and research based programs.
Math interventions may include: Focus Math Intensive intervention, Number Worlds, Touch Math, reteach lessons from Go Math and other research based programs.
As a parent/guardian of a student at a school receiving funds under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, you have the right to request the professional qualifications of the teachers who instruct your child. You may request the following information about each of your child’s classroom teachers:
Whether the teacher has met state certification requirements;
Whether the teacher is teaching under an emergency permit or other provisional status by which state licensing criteria have been waived;
The teacher’s college major;
Whether the teacher has any advanced degrees and, if so, the subject of the degrees
Title I funds in a Targeted Assistance school must be used to improve the academic achievement of identified Title I students.
