ESSA

Title I, Part A

Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Education Agencies (LEA) provides supplemental funding to state and LEAs. The funding is for resources to help schools with high concentrations of students from low-income families provide a high-quality education that will enable all children to meet the state’s student performance standards. Title I, Part A supports schools in implementing either a school-wide program or a targeted assistance program. These programs must use effective methods and instructional strategies that are grounded in scientifically based research.

Title I, Part C

Migrant Education Programs are designed to support programs that help migrant students overcome the challenges of mobility, cultural and language barriers, social isolation, and other difficulties associated with a migratory lifestyle. These efforts are aimed at helping migrant students succeed in school and successfully transition to postsecondary education or employment.

Title II, Part A – Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting (TPTR)

Fund provides supplemental funding to improve student achievement. The funds are used to elevate teacher and principal quality through recruitment, hiring and retention strategies and to increase the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom and highly qualified principals and assistant principals in schools. The program uses scientifically based professional development interventions and holds districts and schools accountable for improvements in student academic performance.

Title III, Part A

Title III, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as reauthorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), aims to ensure that English learners (ELs) and immigrant students attain English proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement in English. Title III will also assist all English learners meet the same challenging State academic standards that all children are expected to meet 

The purposes of Title III, Part A are:

• to assist all English Learners and immigrant students to achieve at high levels in the core academic subjects and achieve standards required in Title I, Section 1111(b)(1);
• to develop high-quality language instruction educational programs designed to assist state education agencies, local education agencies (LEAs) and schools in
• teaching English Learners and immigrant students;
• to assist local education agencies to develop and enhance their capacity to provide high-quality instructional programs designed to prepare English Learners and immigrant
• students enter all-English instruction settings;
• to assist local education agencies and schools to build their capacity to establish, implement, and sustain language instruction educational programs and
• programs of English language development for English Learners students;
• to promote parental and community participation in language instruction educational programs for the parents and communities of (Sec.1302 (b)) English Learners;
• to streamline language instruction educational programs that help English Learners and immigrant students develop proficiency in English while meeting challenging state
• academic content and student academic achievement standards;
• to hold local education agencies and schools accountable for increases in English proficiency and core academic content knowledge of English Learners; and
• to provide local education agencies the flexibility to implement the most effective language instruction programs based on scientifically based research. P.L. 107-110, Section 3102.

Title IV, Part A: Student Support and Academic Enrichment

The overarching goal of Title IV, Part A, is to increase the capacity of state education agencies, local educational agencies (LEAs), campuses, and communities to meet the following three goals:

1. Provide all students access to a well-rounded education
2. Improve academic outcomes by maintaining safe and healthy students 
3. Improve the use of technology to advance student academic achievement