No Child Left Behind

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No Child Left Behind

• Title I
• Newport News Public Schools

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NNPS Goal
NCLB

• Redirect and maximize use of available No Child
  Left Behind funds to decrease the disparity gaps
  among subgroups while improving achievement of
  all students.

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Title I Improving Basic Programs
NCLB

• Title I is part of the No Child Left behind
  legislation.
• Title I reaches about 12.5 million students
  enrolled in both public and private schools.

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Specific Title I Requirements
NCLB

• Coordinate Title I services with the regular
  instructional program, including assisting
  transition from preschool programs.
• Provide instruction by highly qualified teachers.
• Provide opportunities for professional
  development.
• Provide strategies to increase parental
  involvement.

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Title IImproving Basic Programs

• Purpose Ensure that all students have fair,
  equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a
  high quality education and reach proficiency on
  State academic assessments.
• Title I funds must be used in schools with the
  highest concentrations of students from
  low-income families.

NCLB
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Supplement Versus Supplant
NCLB

• These funds may only supplement not supplant
  state/local funds.
• Cannot now use these funds to pay for things
  formerly paid for from other funds.
• Must only add to (supplement) or provide new
  initiatives.

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Title IImproving Basic Programs
NCLB

• How are Funds Spent?
• Provide same salary/benefits increases as other
  division employees
• First Step program (preschool)
• Central office support
• Parental Involvement Specialist
• Allocations for Title I Elementary Schools

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Title IImproving Basic Programs

• Based on individual needs assessments at each
  Title I school, allocation is spent for
• personnel
• reading teachers
• math teachers
• SOL teachers
• parent involvement
• professional development
• instructional materials

NCLB
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Parent Involvement
NCLB

• The participation of parents in regular,
  two-way, and meaningful communication involving
  student academic learning and other school
  activities.
• Parent input required in Title I, Title II, Title
  III, and Title IV

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Parents Right-To-Know Teacher Qualifications

• Local school divisions receiving Title I funds
  must notify parents at the beginning of each
  school year that they may request and obtain
  information from the division about
  qualifications of staff instructing their
  children in Title I schools.
• This notice is placed in the student Agenda of
  Title I schools and mailed home to each student.

NCLB
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Teacher Quality and Parent Notification
NCLB

• The local school division must ensure that Title
  I schools give timely notice to parents that
  their children have been assigned or have been
  taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a
  teacher who is not highly qualified.
• This applies to ALL teachers, not just those who
  work in Title I programs