Hillsdale PK-6 School receives Title I funding to operate targeted assistance programs.
Title I schools with less than 40 percent low-income students or that choose not to operate a schoolwide program offer a targeted assistance program in which the school identifies students who are failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the state's challenging academic achievement standards.
Targeted assistance programs are supplemental Title I services provided to a select group of eligible children who are identified by schools (or districts) as failing or most at risk of failing to meet the state’s reading and mathematics standards.
Children must be ranked and served from highest to lowest risk using multiple educationally related criteria.
Schools are eligible to operate Title I programs if the school’s poverty is above 35 percent or the district-wide poverty average.
Targeted assistance programs must offer supplemental services beyond what is offered in the required curriculum.
Typical services include:
- additional instruction or tutoring;
- professional development on Title I programs to administrators, teachers and parents;
- additional books and other supplies;
- additional equipment and increased parental involvement activities
(Source: Ohio Department of Education, Office of Federal Programs Resource Guide, September 2015)