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 Arts Education and School Improvement Resources for Local and State Leaders -- April 1997 (Updated March 1999)

TITLE I: GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCIES

(202) 260-0826 or State Department of Education or Local School District

Title I provides funds to state departments of education and in turn to local school districts and schools to provide quality opportunities for students in low-income schools to meet challenging academic standards. Provisions include extended learning time and accelerated rather than remedial classes; expanded eligibility for schools to operate schoolwide programs that serve all children in schools with 50 percent students in poverty; help achieving effective transitions from preschool to school and from school to work; accountability based on results; reduced but improved testing; in-creased parental participation; and fair and equitable participation of private school students.

Program Office Contact: Mary Jean Letendre (202) 260-0826 or e-mail Mary.Jean.Letendre@ed.gov

Legislation: Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title I, Part A, as amended by the Improving America's Schools Act (P.L. 103-382) (20 USC 6301)

Type of Assistance: formula grants to state departments of education which then pass on formula grants to local school districts

Who May Apply: State education agencies receive funds by formula from U.S. Department of Education. Local districts and schools receive formula grants from states.

Also Known As: Education for the Disadvantaged -- Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards

FY 99 Appropriation: $7,676 billion

Artist-in-residence programs have been funded by Title I.

The schoolwide improvement project at Blythe Avenue Elementary School in Cleveland, Tennessee includes a readiness class for the transition from kindergarten to first grade, the IBM Writing to Read and Writing to Write programs, and a districtwide Discipline-Based Arts Program (Getty Education Institute for the Arts) in which art is taught throughout the curricula. In 1993, the school was named an Arts Honor School by the Tennessee Arts Commission.

The schoolwide improvement project at Lingelbach Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded on a commitment that students will achieve high academic standards through an interdisciplinary, thematic curriculum including a National Endowment for the Arts program to support learning through the arts and architecture.


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Last Updated -- March 10, 1999, (pjk)