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The Title I program first began in 1965, to improve the quality of education in the United States. Most recently, this act was amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act. The Title I program provides funds to help educate identified students in schools with a high concentration of children from low-income families. The program incorporates various components, which include an early childhood program for four-year-old students, Literacy & mCLASS Intervention for Title I students in grades K-2, a math intervention program for middle school Title I students, services for homeless students, and family engagement activities.
Title II funds are designated for the professional development of teachers and administrators throughout the district. Other Title II funded activities include assisting teachers and paraprofessionals to become highly qualified and reducing class sizes in primary schools.
The Title III program provides support for intensive English language instruction to children whose native language is not English. Title III partners with the district to provide an additional English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher and instructional materials for ESL classrooms.
Other federal programs in the district include IDEA and Head Start. IDEA provides educational services to eligible students based on the student’s IEP. Visit the Special Education section of this website for more information about IDEA. Head Start provides educational services to eligible three and four-year-old children. More information about Head Start can be found at the Head Start section of this website.
Title I in St. Charles Parish Public Schools
Title I of The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) remains the country's largest federal aid program for education. To receive these funds from the federal government, each state must submit a detailed plan describing what all children are expected to know, the standards of performance that all scholars are expected to meet, and ways to measure scholars’ progress. The Louisiana Department of Education allocates money to St. Charles Parish Public School District based on the number of low-income families living there. The district sends funds to schools with the most economically disadvantaged scholars. These schools identify scholars most needing educational help, set annual goals for improvement, measure student success, develop programs that add to the regular education programs, and collaboratively work with parents in all aspects of their scholar’s education. Parents, administrators, and teachers evaluate the district and school plans annually, and revisions are made based on the most current data and school needs.
The Title I Program in St. Charles Parish believes that all students are or can become scholars. A scholar is a learned person who has exhibited accelerated learning competencies and/or possesses high content knowledge of particular subjects. St. Charles Parish Public Schools will provide access and opportunities for all students to accelerate, with expectations of them becoming scholars. We support acceleration in reading for scholars in kindergarten through 5th grade and early childhood classes at each of our Title I Schoolwide Elementary schools. Title I supports math interventions at the middle school level at Albert Cammon and R.K. Smith. The Title I Program also has established Family Resource Centers at each of our Title I Elementary schools.
The Family Resource Centers enhance student achievement by providing parent workshops (both academic and social/emotional), Community Playgroups to increase Kindergarten readiness, home visits, learning materials and resources that can be checked out, and other general support for families.
St. Charles Parish has shifted to a Schoolwide district. The Schoolwide program is authorized under Title I, Part A. It is a service delivery model for Title I schools that allows schools to support costs associated with whole school improvement to raise the achievement of all students, particularly working below grade level standards/benchmark.
The Title I program gives selected scholars the opportunity to move ahead using many different teaching methods. These include individual instruction, small group instruction, and computer assisted instruction. Highly qualified Title I teachers provide opportunities for scholars to experience success in reading and math so that lifelong skills are developed and negative attitudes toward reading and math are minimized or eliminated. Title I teachers work closely with classroom teachers to ensure the success of each student.