If a school does not consolidate funds, Title I A school need not use Title I funds to provide funds may only be used to provide services in services only in a pull-out setting, although a pull-out setting. this practice is not prohibited either. Title I funds may be used to upgrade the entire educational program in a school and serve all students, even if the school does not consolidate Title I funds with its other funds. However, the primary purpose of a schoolwide program is to raise the achievement of the lowest-achieving students by upgrading the entire educational program. (Please see the discussion below that identifies additional advantages of consolidating Title I funds with other Federal, State, and local funds in a schoolwide program.) Title I funds may only be used for instruction. Title I funds may be used for activities and strategies designed to raise the achievement of low-achieving students identified by a school’s needs assessment and articulated in the school’s comprehensive schoolwide plan. For example, Title I funds may be used to improve attendance, improve school climate, counteract bullying, or provide positive behavioral interventions and supports. Title I funds may not be used to support A schoolwide program school does not need activities that are by law,” were to demonstrate that Title I funds are used “required previously supported with State or local funds, only for activities that supplement, and do not or are provided to non-Title I students with supplant, those the school would otherwise State or local funds. provide with non-Federal funds. Accordingly, the presumptions used to determine if supplanting has occurred (i.e., if the activity is required by law; if the activity was provided in prior years with non-Federal funds; or if the activity is provided to I students with non-Federal funds) do not apply to uses of Title I funds in a schoolwide program school. (Please see the discussion below regarding supplement not supplant.) Title I funds may not be used to support A schoolwide program school may use Title I children below kindergarten or the age of funds to operate, in whole or in part, a compulsory education. preschool program to improve cognitive, health, and social-emotional outcomes for children below the grade at which the LEA
If a school does not consolidate funds, Title I funds may only be used to provide services in a pull-out setting. A school need not use Title I funds to provide services only in a pull-out setting, although this practice is not prohibited either. Title I funds may be used to upgrade the entire educational program in a school and serve all students, even if the school does not consolidate Title I funds with its other funds. However, the primary purpose of a schoolwide program is to raise the achievement of the lowest-achieving students by upgrading the entire educational program. (Please see the discussion below that identifies additional advantages of consolidating Title I funds with other Federal, State, and local funds in a schoolwide program.) Title I funds may only be used for instruction. Title I funds may be used for activities and strategies designed to raise the achievement of low-achieving students identified by a school’s needs assessment and articulated in the school’s comprehensive schoolwide plan. For example, Title I funds may be used to improve attendance, improve school climate, counteract bullying, or provide positive behavioral interventions and supports. Title I funds may not be used to support activities that are “required by law,” were previously supported with State or local funds, or are provided to non-Title I students with State or local funds. A schoolwide program school does not need to demonstrate that Title I funds are used only for activities that supplement, and do not supplant, those the school would otherwise provide with non-Federal funds. Accordingly, the presumptions used to determine if supplanting has occurred (i.e., if the activity is required by law; if the activity was provided in prior years with non-Federal funds; or if the activity is provided to I students with non-Federal funds) do not apply to uses of Title I funds in a schoolwide program school. (Please see the discussion below regarding supplement not supplant.) Title I funds may not be used to support children below kindergarten or the age of compulsory education. A schoolwide program school may use Title I funds to operate, in whole or in part, a preschool program to improve cognitive, health, and social-emotional outcomes for children below the grade at which the LEA
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