Title V-A: Innovative Programs

Title V-A, formerly Title VI under IASA, makes resources available to states in order for local educational agencies (LEAs) to design and implement innovative education research-based programs and strategies to improve student achievement. This supplemental innovative assistance program shall be tied to promoting challenging academic achievement standards, used to improve student academic achievement and be part of an overall education reform strategy.

Some of the twenty- seven allowable activities include teacher quality, professional development, class-size reduction, technology and educational materials, education reform and school improvement, special needs, parental options, literacy, early childhood and adult education, community service and community involvement and health services. Allocations to LEAs are made available on a formula basis.

 

Allowable Title V-A Activities

Under Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, there were nine allowable activities. With the reauthorization, there are now 27 allowable activities under Title V-A, including:

Professional development and class-size reduction activities

Charter schools

Community service programs

Consumer, economic, and personal finance education

Public school choice

Programs to hire and support school nurses

School-based mental health services

Alternative education programs

Pre-kindergarten programs

Academic intervention programs

Smaller learning communities programs

Activities to advance student achievement

Programs and activities that use best practice models

Same-gender schools and classrooms

Service-learning activities

School safety programs

Programs that use research-based cognitive and perceptual development approaches and rely on a "diagnostic-prescriptive model" to improve students' learning

Title I supplemental educational services

Magnet schools

Dropout prevention

Gifted and talented education

Parental and community involvement