Diane Stuehmer

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When can Special Education Students Receive Title
I Services

• Diane Stuehmer
• And
• Rose Dymacek

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How Students Are Identified for Special Education
Services

• Verification for Learning Disabilities
• Students struggling in general curriculum
• Core instruction supplemented with interventions
  
• Student Progress is monitored regularly
• More intensive interventions utilized if little
  progress
• Referral to SAT team
• Comprehensive Evaluation
• MDT meeting
• IEP meeting

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Rule 51

• RtI
• Technical Assistance Document
• Update in process
• RtI and SPED Verification

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How Are Students Identified for Title I Services

• Targeted Assisted Buildings
• Needs Assessment for all students
• Triangulated Data
• Students with highest needs are eligible for
  Title I Services
• Schoolwide Projects
• Students are not identified using a Needs
  Assessment
• Needs Assessment of entire school

5
What Title I Services Are Available for Special
Education students?

• Look closely at services specified in IEP
• Services cannot be duplicated

6
Special Education Funding

• 15 of special education allocation can be
  utilized for early intervening services
• Enrollment Poverty

7
Title I Funding

• Census Data from 2005 used in calculations for
  2008-09
• Free and Reduced Lunch Counts (Districts less
  than 20,000 students)
• Four grants
• Basic Grant At least 10 low-income children and
  the number of low-income children must be gt 2 of
  the Districts school-age population
• Concentration Grant District must generally
  have gt 6,500 low-income students or exceed 15 of
  the Districts school-age population
• Targeted Grant District must have at least 10
  low-income children and that number must be at
  least 5 of the Districts school-age population.
• Education Incentive Finance Grant (EFIG)
  District must have at least 10 low-income
  children and that number must be at least 5 of
  the Districts school-age population.

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How Can Title I Funds Be Used?

• Targeted Assistance Program
• For students who are at risk of failing to meet
  academic standards
• Staff
• Professional development
• Materials, equipment for use by identified
  Title I students

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How Can Special Education Funds Be Used?
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Title I and RtI PROCEED WITH CAUTION

• Supplement, not supplant is one of the biggest
  barriersparticularly in Targeted Assistance
  Schools
• Title I prohibits districts from using Title I
  funds to pay for services that are also provided
  to non-Title I students
• Title I funds CANNOT be used to pay for universal
  screening for all students.
• If RtI will be implemented in Title I and
  non-Title I buildings, Title I funds CANNOT BE
  USED
• Title I CANNOT support monitoring related to the
  core instruction

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Title I and RtI PROCEED WITH CAUTION cont.

• The criteria for your Title I service has to be
  the same for the intervention you are using
• For example, if a school wants to use Title I
  funds for a Tier II intervention, students being
  served must be Title I eligible
• Make sure your RtI framework includes very
  specific criteria for entering and exiting each
  Tier. The Tier II criteria should match the
  criteria you use to determine Title I eligibility
• To avoid supplanting in a schoolwide program, a
  district needs to ensure that Title I funds add
  to, and dont substitute for, the total state and
  local resources the school is supposed to
  receive.

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Title I and RtI

• Contact the NDE Title I Office before
  implementing an RtI program that involves using
  Title I funds or staff