Title1, Part A

Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies

Title 1 Part A, is intended to help ensure that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency on challenging state academic standards and assessments.

As the largest federal program supporting elementary and secondary education (funded at $10.4 billion in FY 2002), Title 1 targets these resources to the districts and schools where the needs are greatest. Schools with poverty rates or 50 percent or higher received 73 percent of Title 1 funds in the 1997-1998 school year, and nearly all (96 percent) of the highest-poverty schools (those with 75 percent or more low-income students) received Title 1 funds.

Title 1 provides flexible funding that may be used to provide additional instructional staff, professional development, extended-time programs, and other strategies for raising student achievement in high-poverty schools and ensuring students’access to scientifically-based strategies and challenging academic content.

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