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Title I

Title I

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Improving Basic Programs

This federal program provides supplemental financial assistance to school districts/schools with a high percentage of children from low-income families, to provide all children a significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, high-quality education and to close educational achievement gaps.

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Hiring the Best Teachers

Some schools in the South Colonie Central School District are Title I schools. Being a Title I school means receiving federal funding which can be used to recruit, hire, and retain highly qualified teachers.

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Providing Assistance

Some schools in the South Colonie Central School District are Title I schools. Being a Title I school means receiving federal funding which can be used to identify students experiencing academic difficulties and providing timely assistance to help students’ meet NYS standards.

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Purchasing Supplies

Some schools in the South Colonie Central School District are Title I schools. Being a Title I school means receiving federal funding which can be used to purchase supplementary materials and supplies.

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Encouraging Parent Involvement

Some schools in the South Colonie Central School District are Title I schools. Being a Title I school means receiving federal funding which can be used to conduct parent involvement and engagement meetings.

Grant-Funded Teaching Professionals

Ensuring our students’ success. 

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Reading Teachers

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Literacy Interventionists

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Math Coaches

Title I Policies

Parent's Right to Know

Being a Title I school also means encouraging parental involvement and advocating for parents’ rights.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), every parent/guardian has the right to know the professional qualifications of the classroom teacher(s) who instruct their child. Federal law allows parents/guardians to ask certain information about their child’s classroom teacher(s) and requires the district to give you this information in a timely manner if you ask for it.

Specifically, you have the right to ask for the following information about each of your child’s classroom teacher(s):

  • Whether any paraprofessionals provide service to your child and, if they do, their qualifications.
  • Whether the NYS Education Department has licensed or qualified the teacher for the grades and subjects he or she teaches.
  • The teacher’s college major and whether the teacher has any advanced degrees and, if so, the subject of the degree.
  • Whether the NYS Education Department has decided that the teacher can teach in the classroom without being licensed or qualified under state regulation because of special circumstances.

Parent and Family Engagement Policy

In this policy, parental involvement refers to the participation of parents in regular, two-way meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other related school activities. At a minimum, parent and family engagement programs and activities at both the District and individual school levels must ensure that parents and family members:

  • Play an integral role in their child’s learning
  • Are encouraged to be actively involved in their child’s education at school
  • Are full partners in their child’s education and are included, as appropriate, in decision making and included on advisory committees to assist in the education of their child.

Read the full Parent and Family Engagement Policy. 

School-Parent Compact

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The Title I school and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (participating children), agree that this compact outlines how the parents, the entire school staff, and the students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership that will help children achieve the State’s high standards.   

SCHOOL RESPONSIBILITIES

The Title I School will:

  • Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards.
  • Hold annual parent-teacher conferences during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement.   
  • Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress.   
  • Provide parents reasonable access to staff.   
  • Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class and to observe classroom activities.   

PARENT RESPONSIBILITIES

To support their children’s learning, parents will:

  • Monitoring attendance.   
  • Ensuring that homework is completed.   
  • Monitoring amount of television children watch.   
  • Volunteering in child’s classroom.   
  • Participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my child’s education.   
  • Promoting positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.   
  • Staying informed about my child’s education and communicating with the school by promptly reading all notices from the school or the school district either received by my child or by mail and responding, as appropriate.   
  • Serving, to the extent possible, on policy advisory groups, such as being the Title I, Part A parent representative on the school’s School Improvement Team, the Title I Policy Advisory Committee, the District-wide Policy Advisory Council, the State’s Committee of Practitioners, the School Support Team or other school advisory or policy groups.   

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES

  • To share the responsibility to improve academic achievement, students will:
  • Do my homework every day and ask for help when I need it.
  • Read at least 30 minutes every day outside of school time.
  • Give my parents or the adult who is responsible for my welfare all notices and information received by me from my school every day.

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