Every Student Succeeds Act
Elementary and Secondary Education ActThe Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is a United States federal statute originally enacted in 1965. These federal funds are authorized for supplemental: professional development, instructional materials, and resources to support educational programs, and parental involvement programs. The current reauthorization of ESEA is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD receives funding for the following entitlement programs within the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
- Title I, Part A
- Title II, Part A
- Title III, Part A: English Learners (EL) and Immigrant (IM)
- Title IV, Part A
Title I, Part A
Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
Provides supplemental funding 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. These programs must use effective methods and instructional strategies that are grounded in scientifically-based research.
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD has 32 schools that are served as Title I Schoolwide Campuses.
Title II, Part A
Teacher Training and Recruiting
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 intent of the funding is to support educators in their work to improve the overall quality of instruction and ensure equity of educational opportunity for all students. The program uses scientifically based professional development interventions and holds districts and schools accountable for improvements in student academic performance.
Title III, Part A: English Learners and Immigrants
Language Instruction for English Learners
Provides supplemental resources to local education agencies to help ensure that English Learners and/or immigrant students attain English proficiency at high levels in core academic subjects to meet state mandated achievement performance standards. Title III will also assist all English learners meet the same challenging State academic standards that all children are expected to meet.
Title IV, Part A
Student Support and Academic Enrichment
- Provides all students with access to a well-rounded education.
- Improves schools conditions for student learning.
- Improves the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students
Private Non-Profit (PNP) Schools
Equitable Services
School districts who receive federal grant funds are required to provide equitable services for eligible PNP school children, teachers, and other educational personnel. The term “equitable services” refers to the process of providing students, teachers, staff, and families at eligible PNPs fair access to federally funded education programs and services, as appropriate. Services provided by the LEA for private school participants are designed to meet their educational needs and supplement the educational services provided by the private school. Educational services or other benefits, including materials and equipment, provided under this section, shall be secular, neutral, and non-ideological. The process depends on a “timely and meaningful consultation” between ISD officials and officials of eligible PNP Schools.*
A Private Non-Profit (PNP) school may opt to participate in applicable programs if it meets the following specifications:
- The private school holds not-for-profit status. A home school is considered a private school if it has official nonprofit status (i.e. have a tax exempt identification number)
- The private school submits appropriate documents to determine eligibility, as requested
- The private school and/or its students (depending upon the program of interest) are located within the geographic jurisdiction of a local educational agency (LEA) that is eligible and receives funding. If the LEA does not receive funds for a specific program, it is not possible for the PNP to receive funds for that program
Under 34 CFR 77.1, the term “nonprofit” as applied to an agency, organization, or institution means it is owned and operated by one or more corporations or associations whose net earnings do not benefit, and cannot lawfully benefit, any private shareholder or entity. If a church that operates a school meets the definition of nonprofit, the school does not need separate nonprofit status. (USDE Office of General Counsel).
Equitable services are provided to eligible Private Non-Profits Schools under the following federal ESSA Title programs:
- Title I, Part A: Improving Basic Programs for Educationally Disadvantaged Students
- Title II, Part A: Supporting Effective Instruction
- Title III, Part A: English Learners (EL)
- Title IV, Part A: Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants