Academic Achievement

Family and Community Engagement

FACE is an essential component of improving outcomes for children and youth. Effective family and community engagement is a reciprocal and essential partnership among families, communities and schools that reflects a shared responsibility to foster children's development and learning. 

We recently received information from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) regarding Arizona’s 2022 Census Data that would be used by ED for the calculation of FY25 (2024-2025 school year) Title I, Part A allocations. Please note that these data impact Census LEA's (non-Charter LEA entities).

Attached here from ED are:

In 1988, P.L. 100-297 authorized the State Department of Education to establish a Title I Committee of Practitioners (COP). The law requires all major proposed or final rules or regulations issued by the state to be reviewed by the Committee of Practitioners. Beginning in FY1998, the COP became a cross-programmatic committee. Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), renamed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the COP covers all ESSA programs that are in the Consolidated Plan.

In accordance with this statute, each such committee shall include --

The Academic Achievement unit is responsible for managing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Consolidated Funding Application (Title I-A, Title I-D, Title II-A, Title IV-A, and Title V-B).  Part of that responsibility is allocating the funds to the Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) of Arizona.  Below, you will find information and resources regarding that allocation process. 

A school with a Title I Targeted Assistance program, which is primarily addressed in Section 1115 of Title I, Part A, is one that receives Part A funds, yet is ineligible or has chosen not to operate a Title I schoolwide program. Academic support and services are provided to a select group of students identified as failing – or at most risk of failing – to meet the State's challenging content and student performance standards in reading and mathematics.

Since 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires local educational agencies (LEAs) and other eligible entities to provide for the equitable participation of private school students, staff, and families of students enrolled in nonprofit private schools.  

Title I, Part A, equitable services are governed under ESEA sections 1117 and 8501.
ESEA, Title VIII equitable service provisions cover the following programs:

The Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) is designed to help rural school districts that may lack the personnel and resources to compete effectively for Federal competitive grants and that often receive grant allocations in amounts that are too small to be effective in meeting their intended purposes. The Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) is authorized by Part B of Title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, P.L.

Title I Part A, under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), provides financial assistance to local educational agencies to meet the needs of educationally disadvantaged children at preschool, elementary, and secondary school levels.