Federal Programs - Title

Title I A - Improving the Academic Achievement of Disadvantaged Students

Title I, Part A is the largest federal program supporting both elementary and secondary education. The program's resources are allocated based upon the poverty rates of students enrolled in schools and districts and are designed to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards.

Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is the longstanding federal law focused on K-12 education that helps ensure equitable opportunities for all students. ESEA's most recent reauthorization, ESSA, emphasizes:

1. Opportunities for historically underserved students

2. Local control and flexibility based on local context

3. Access to high academic standards and effective educators

4. Assessments that measure student progress towards meeting high academic standards

5. Federal accountability and actions for results

6. Preparation for student success in college and careers

7. Investment in high-quality preschools

8. Leverage of evidence-based practices

Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes provisions that will help to ensure success for students and schools. Below are just a few examples of how ESSA supports our students.

1. Advances equity by upholding critical protections for America's disadvantaged and high-need students.
2. Requires that all students in America be taught to high academic standards that will prepare them to succeed in careers and college.
3. Ensures that vital information is provided to educators, families, students, and communities through annual statewide assessments that measure students' progress toward those high standards.
4. Helps to support and grow local innovations—including evidence-based and place-based interventions developed by local leaders and educators.
5. Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in our lowest-performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress, and where graduation rates are low over extended periods of time.

The following MCVSD 51 schools receive Title I funding, based on The Colorado Department of Education demographic data:

Elementary Schools:

• Chatfield
• Chipeta
• Clifton
• Dual Immersion Academy
• Dos Rios
• Fruitvale
• Lincoln Orchard Mesa
• Mesa View
• Nisley
• Orchard Avenue
• Pear Park
• Pomona
• Rocky Mountain
• Thunder Mountain
• Tope

Middle Schools:

• Bookcliff
• Grand Mesa
• Grand River Academy
• Mt. Garfield
• Orchard Mesa

Charter Schools:

• Juniper Ridge Elementary School

Private Schools:

• Landmark Baptist 
• Life Academy

Title II, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015 is intended to increase student academic achievement consistent with challenging State academic standards, improve the quality and effectiveness of educators, increase the number of educators who are effective in improving student academic achievement in schools, and provide low-income and minority students greater access to effective educators.

Below are just a few examples of how Title II supports our staff and students:

1. Providing high-quality, personalized professional development that is evidence-based

2. Developing or improving a rigorous, transparent, and fair evaluation and support system for teachers, principals or other school leaders that is based in part on evidence of student achievement, which may include student growth, and shall include multiple measures of educator performance and provide clear, timely, and useful feedback to teachers, principals, or other school leaders

3. Developing and implementing initiatives to assist in recruiting, hiring, and retaining effective teachers, particularly in low-income schools with high percentages of ineffective teachers and high percentages of students who do not meet the challenging State academic standards

4. Recruiting qualified individuals from other fields to become teachers, principals, or other school leaders, including mid-career professionals from other occupations, former military personnel, and recent graduates of institutions of higher education with records of academic distinction who demonstrate potential to become effective teachers, principals, or other school leaders

5. Reducing class size to a level that is evidence-based

6. Developing programs and activities that increase the ability of teachers to effectively teach children with disabilities, including children with significant cognitive disabilities, and English learners

7. Providing programs and activities to increase the ability of principals or other school leaders to support teachers, teacher leaders, early childhood educators and other professionals to meet the needs of students through age 8

8. Supporting the instructional services provided by effective school library programs

9. Developing feedback mechanisms to improve school working conditions, including through periodically and publicly reporting results of educator support and working conditions feedback

10. Carrying out other evidence-based activities that meet the purpose of Title II, Part A

Title III is a supplemental grant under the ESEA that is designed to improve and enhance the education of English learners (ELs) in becoming proficient in English, as well as meeting the Colorado Academic Content standards. The Title III Immigrant Set-Aside grant resides within this program and provides opportunities for LEAs to enhance the instructional opportunities for immigrant students and their families.

Title IV, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 is intended to improve students’ academic achievement by increasing the capacity of States, local educational agencies (LEAs), schools, and local communities to provide all students with access to a well-rounded education, improve school conditions for student learning, and improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students.

Activities to support well-rounded educational opportunities for students may include, but are not limited to:

• STEM programs
• Music and art programs
• Foreign language offerings
• The opportunity to earn credits from institutions of higher learning
• Reimbursing low-income students to cover the costs of accelerated learning examination fees
• Environmental education
• Programs and activities that promote volunteerism and community involvement

Activities to support safe and healthy students may include, but are not limited to:

• School-based mental health services
• Drug and violence prevention activities that are evidence-based
• Integrating health and safety practices into school or athletic programs
• Nutritional education and physical education activities
• Bullying and harassment prevention
• Activities that improve instructional practices for developing relationship-building skills
• Prevention of teen and dating violence, stalking, domestic abuse, and sexual violence and harassment
• Establishing or improving school dropout and reentry programs
• Training school personnel in effective practices related to the above

Activities to improve the use of educational technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students may include, but are not limited to:

• Building technological capacity and infrastructure
• Developing or using effective or innovative strategies for the delivery of specialized or rigorous academic courses through the use of technology
• Carrying out blended learning activities (must include ongoing professional development for teachers)
• Providing professional development on the use of technology to enable teachers to increase student achievement in STEM areas
• Providing students in rural, remote, and underserved areas with the resources to take advantage of high-quality digital learning experiences
• Providing educators, school leaders, and administrators with the professional learning tools, devices, content and resources to:
  • Personalize learning
  • Discover, adapt, and share relevant high-quality educational resources
  • Use technology effectively in the classroom
  • Implement and support school and districtwide approaches for using technology to inform instruction, support teacher collaboration, and personalize learning