Title I, Part A, provides local educational agencies (LEA) resources that help children gain a high-quality education and the skills to master the Florida Standards. Title I provides additional resources to schools with economically disadvantaged students. These resources provide additional teachers, professional development, extra time for teaching, parent involvement activities, and other activities designed to raise student achievement. Two models are used in Title I schools to provide these services. Schoolwide reform models provide all students with access to services. Targeted assistance models provide services to select students in Title I schools. Washington County School District uses the schoolwide model for Title I, Part A. The funds received from the Florida Department of Education for the 2020-21 school year were $1,163,542.00.
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The purpose of Title II-A is to provide the district the assistance for perparing instructional staff to
- Developing and implementing mechanisms to assist schools in effectively recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers, including specialists in core academic subjects, principals, and pupil services personnel
- Developing and implementing initiatives to assist in recruiting highly qualified teachers (particularly initiatives that have proven effective in retaining highly qualified teachers), and hiring highly qualified teachers, who will be assigned teaching positions within their fields (including recruiting and hiring highly qualified teachers to reduce class size, particularly in the early grades)
- Providing professional development activities
- Developing and implementing initiatives to promote retention of highly qualified teachers and principals, particularly within elementary schools and secondary schools with a high percentage of low-achieving students
- Carrying out programs and activities that are designed to improve the quality of the teacher force
- Carrying out professional development activities designed to improve the quality of principals and superintendents, including the development and support of academies to help talented aspiring or current principals and superintendents become outstanding managers and educational leaders.
- Hiring highly qualified teachers, including teachers who become highly qualified through State and local alternative routes to certification, and special education teachers, in order to reduce class size, particularly in the early grades.
- Carrying out teacher advancement initiatives that promote professional growth and emphasize multiple career paths (such as paths to becoming a career teacher, mentor teacher, or exemplary teacher) and pay differentiation.
- Carrying out programs and activities related to exemplary teachers.
Washington County School District received $130,005.00 for the 2020-2021 school year.
- providing all students with access to a well-rounded education,
- improving school conditions for student learning, to support safe and healthy students, and
- improving the use of technology in order to advance digital literacy of all students.
Title V-Rural & Low Income Schools Program
The Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) is designed to assist rural school districts in using Federal resources more effectively to improve the quality of instruction and student academic achievement. It consists of two separate programs – the Small, Rural School Achievement (SRSA) program and the Rural and Low-Income Schools (RLIS) program. Washington County School District received $76,192.00.
Homeless Education Program
Every Child Has a Right to an Education
The Federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act states that children and youth who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence are considered homeless.
If, due to a loss of housing, a child must live in a shelter, motel, vehicle, or campground, on the street, in abandoned buildings, or doubled-up with relatives or friends, then he/she is eligible to receive services provided under the McKinney-Vento Act.
The McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program is designed to address the problems that homeless children and youth have faced in enrolling, attending, and succeeding in school. Under this program, state educational agencies must ensure that each homeless child and youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as other children and youth.
Homeless children and youth must have access to the educational and other services that they need to enable them to meet the same challenging State student academic achievement standards to which all students are held. In addition, homeless students may not be separated from the mainstream school environment.
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
The purpose is to develop more fully the academic and career and technical skills of secondary education students who elect to enroll in career and technical education programs. Washington County School District received $55,226.00 for the 2020-2021 school year.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act IDEA
The purpose of IDEA is to provide a free and appropriate public education by allocating funds to meet the unique needs of students with disabilities.
Washington County School District received $911,432.00.
Contact: Jiranda White, Director of Federal Programs, 850-638-6222, Ext. 1111, [email protected]