of the ESEA-No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Flexibility and Accountability
Part A -- Improving Academic Achievement
Part B -- Rural Education Initiative
Summary of Title VI
Title VI is designed
to provide flexibility to assist states in the development of
strategies to target Federal funds to Federal programs that most
effectively address the unique needs of States and localities.
Funds will be provided to enhance state and local assessment
systems and to improve the dissemination of information on student
achievement and school performance to parents, community and
other interested parties. States and local educational agencies
will have the flexibility to target Federal funds to Federal
programs that most effectively address the unique needs of States
and localities. Additionally, there are allocations for certain
activities authorized under this act.
Part A -- Improving Academic Achievement
Title VI Part A includes:
- Subpart
1 -- Accountability
Subpart 2 -- Funding Transferability
for State and Local Educational Agencies
Subpart 3 -- State and Local Flexibility
Demonstration
- Chapter
A -- State Flexibility
Authority
Chapter B -- Local Flexibility Demonstration
- Subpart
4 -- State Accountability
for Adequate Yearly Progress
Subpart
1 -- Accountability
This part provides grants to States to enable them to pay
the costs of the development of additional State assessments
and standards required to ensure that schools and local educational
agencies are held accountable for meeting the challenging State
academic content and achievement standards. It also provides
to a number of states the opportunity to waive federal requirements
and consolidate and use funds to achieve increased student performance
for a period of five years, assuming the performance targets
have been met.
Assistance will be provided
to Wisconsin to enhance the assessment and accountability requirements
of Title I including the requirement for testing in grades 3-8
in reading and mathematics.
Program contact:
Lynette Russell
Director
Educational Accountability
608-267-1072
lynette.russell@dpi.wi.gov
Subpart
2 -- Funding Transferability
for State and Local Educational Agencies
This subpart allows the State and local educational agencies
the flexibility to target Federal funds to Federal programs that
most effectively address the unique needs of States and localities
and to transfer Federal funds allocated to other activities to
provide for certain activities authorized under Title I. This
subpart has no funding, but allows States and local educational
agencies flexibility to target Federal funds to Federal programs
that most effectively address the unique needs of States and
localities.
Program contact:
Information can be obtained
at the following website: www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/program.html
Subpart
3 -- State and Local
Flexibility Demonstration
The purpose of this subpart is to focus the resources of
the Federal Government on the academic achievement of all students
and to better empower parents, educators, administrators, and
schools to effectively address the needs of their children and
students. This subpart creates options for selected States and
local educational agencies to focus the resources of the Federal
Government on improving student achievement and teacher quality
through a competitive demonstration grant.
Chapter
A -- State Flexibility
Authority State Flexibility
On a competitive basis, seven State educational agencies
will be awarded grant flexibility authority. To receive this
grant authority, the State educational agency must offer substantial
promise of making adequate yearly progress, assisting local educational
agencies that enter into performance agreements with the State
educational agency and providing information demonstrating that
the State educational agency has consulted with and involved
parents, representatives of local educational agencies, and other
educators in the development of the terms of the grant authority.
This is a competitive grant process for a limited number of states
to consolidate funds. The focus would be on high poverty local
educational agencies working with the State agency in aligning
State and local reforms and assisting the local educational agencies
that enter into performance agreements with the State educational
agency.
If selected, a State
education agency could enter into an agreement with the US Department
of Education to receive increased flexibility by submitting a
plan that had substantial promise of improving student achievement.
Program contact:
Information can be obtained
at the following website: www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/program.html
Chapter
B -- Local Flexibility
Demonstration Agreements
The Secretary shall, on a competitive basis, enter into local
flexibility demonstration agreements with the local educational
agencies that submit approvable proposed agreements and are selected.
A total of 80 local educational agencies will be selected on
the basis of substantial promise of meeting the State's definition
of adequate yearly progress, advancing the education priorities
of the local educational agency, improving student achievement,
and narrowing the achievement gap.
If selected, a local
education agency could enter into an agreement with the US Department
of Education to receive increased flexibility by submitting a
plan that had substantial promise of improving student achievement.
Program contact:
Information can be obtained
at the following website: www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/program.html
Subpart
4 -- State Accountability
for Adequate Yearly Progress
A peer review process will be used to determine if the State
has met, or failed to make, adequate yearly progress using the
State assessment data. The Secretary will provide technical assistance
to a State that has failed to make adequate yearly progress for
2 consecutive years.
Program contact:
Information can be obtained
at the following website: www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/program.html
Part B -- Rural Education Initiatives
The Department of Public
Instruction participated in the REAP program during the 2001-
2002 and will again participate in the Rural Education Initiatives.
There are three separate Rural Education Achievement Program
(REAP) initiatives that are designed to help rural districts
that lack the personnel and resources to compete effectively
for Federal competitive grants and that receive grant allocations
in amounts that are too small to be effective in meeting their
intended purposes.
They are:
- Subpart 1 -
Small, Rural School Achievement Program
- Alternative Uses
of Funds Authority
- Subpart 2 - Rural and Low-Income School
Program
More information on these programs can
be found at: http://dpi.wi.gov/fscp/rehmpage.html
Subpart 1 - Small, Rural School Achievement
Program
The Small, Rural School
Achievement Program is a program that authorizes the Secretary
to award formula grants directly to eligible LEAs to carry out
activities authorized under one or more of the following Federal
programs: Title I Part A, Title II Parts A and D, Title III,
Title IV Parts A and B, and Title V Part A. The Secretary is
requesting that LEAs submit their average daily attendance (ADA)
calculations to the SEA, and that SEAs submit the ADA data to
the department, not later than March 1, on behalf of all eligible
LEAs in the State. This initiative allocates funds to the local
educational agencies by using a formula based on average daily
attendance in eligible schools.
This program is an expansion
of the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) which provided
additional flexibility to use funding across title programs.
Program contact:
Jane Grinde
Director
Bright Beginnings and Family-Community-School Partnership Team
608-266-9356
jane.grinde@dpi.wi.gov
Alternate Uses of Funds Authority
(for districts eligible
for Title VI, Part B, Subpart 1-Small, Rural School Achievement Program)
The Alternative Uses of Funds Authority is a provision that allows
eligible local educational agencies to combine funding to carry
out local activities under one or more of the following Federal
programs: Title I Part A, Title II Parts A and D, Title III,
Title IV Parts A and B, and Title V Part A. This initiative does
not provide LEAs with additional funding; rather it gives them
greater flexibility in using applicable funding.
Increased flexibility
among Federal programs to address the needs of school districts
to target funds more effectively.
Program contact:
Information can be obtained
at the following website: www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/program.html
Subpart 2 - Rural and Low-Income School
Program
The Rural and Low Income
School Program is designed to address the needs of rural, low-income
schools. The Secretary awards formula grants to SEAs, which in
turn award subgrants to eligible LEAs either competitively or
on a formula basis. If an SEA chooses not to participate in the
program, the Secretary may use the SEAs allotment to award grants
directly to eligible LEAs in that State either competitively
or by formula. Funds under this program may be used for teacher
recruitment and retention, teacher professional development,
technology, including software and hardware, parental involvement
activities, Safe and Drug-Free Schools program activities, Title
I, and activities authorized under Title III, Language Instruction
for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant students.
This is an expansion
of the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP), which provided
additional flexibility to use funding across title programs.
Program contact:
Jane Grinde
Director
Bright Beginnings and Family-Community-School Partnership Team
608-266-9356
jane.grinde@dpi.wi.gov
For questions about this information, contact Mary Jo Parman (608) 266-2158
Last updated on 2/26/2008 10:18:47 AM
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