- 21st
Century Community Learning Centers
 (External
link)
This document
is the Non-Regulatory Guidance for the 21st Century Community Learning
Centers program. This Guidance can help State Educational Agencies
to develop selection criteria to ensure that local programs are high
and tailored to address the needs of students and their families.
States and
local communities must identify and implement programs for which
there is evidence, based on rigorous research and evaluation, that
they can
effectively help children to succeed in school.
- Access
to High School Students and Information on Students by Military
Recruiters (External
link)
Congress has passed two major pieces of legislation that generally
require local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving assistance
under the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to give military recruiters
the same access to secondary school students as they provide to postsecondary
institutions or to prospective employers.
- Comprehensive
School Reform – CSRD (External
link)
Detailed guidance and answers to questions about the CSRD Program.
Includes an explanation of the program's purpose, application requirements,
information
on proper use of funds by local and state education agencies, program
evaluation criteria, and additional appended information.
- Early
Reading First
 (External
link)
This document provides non-regulatory program guidance for the
Early Reading First program.
- Education
of Homeless Children and Youth (External
link)
This guidance replaces the prior non-regulatory guidance for the
Education for Homeless Children and Youth program. The guidance
describes
the requirements of the reauthorized program and provides suggestions
for addressing many
of those requirements.
- Even
Start (External
link)
Guidance in this document replaces all prior non-regulatory guidance
for Even Start. The guidance reflects changes made to the program
by the "LIFT
Act of 2000" and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and
also addresses questions raised by State and local officials
regarding the newly reauthorized
law.
- Gun
Free Schools Act (External
link)
This guidance addresses changes made as a result of the NCLB reauthorization.
- Identifying
Eligible Institutions and Counting Children (External
link)
Guidance for Identifying Eligible Institutions and Counting Children
in local and or state operated or supported institutions
for the Annual Report
of Children in Institutions for Neglected or Delinquent
Children, Adult Correctional Institutions, and Community Day Programs
for Neglected or Delinquent Children Used to Allocate Title I,
Part
A and Part
D,
Subpart
1 Funds for School Year 2002-2003.
- Improving
Data Quality for Title I Standards, Assessments, and Accountability
Reporting (External
link)
This document is the Non Regulatory Guidance for Improving Data
Quality for Title I Standards, Assessments, and Accountability Reporting:
Guidelines for States and LEAs, and Schools.
- Improving
Teacher Quality State Grants (External
link)
This document identifies questions in the August 3, 2005 guidance that are new
and questions that have been revised.
- ISIA
Regulations and Guidance (External
link)
This page features links to Regulations and Policy Guidance
for programs that are still being implemented under the
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act as reauthorized by the Improving America's
Schools Act of 1994.
- LEA
and School Improvement (External
link)
This guidance explains the school and LEA improvement provisions
embedded in the NCLB legislation and Title I regulations.
- LEA
Identification and Selection of School Attendance Areas and Schools
and Allocation of Title I Funds to Those Ares
and Schools (External
link)
This guidance outlines how local educational agencies (LEAs)
identify eligible Title I school attendance areas and
schools and allocate
funds to those
attendance areas and schools. This guidance reflects
the requirements in Title I, Part A, section 1113 of the Elementary
and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left
Behind
Act, and 200.77
and 200.78 of the Title I regulations published in the
Federal Register on
December 2, 2002.
- Migrant
Education (External
link)
How state and local education agencies can use Migrant Education
Program funds to develop and implement supplemental
educational and support
services for migrant children.
- NCLB
Desktop Reference (External
link)
The No Child Left Behind: A Desktop Reference outlines
what is new under the No Child Left Behind Act of
2001 for each
program
supported
under
the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 and other
statues. It also describes how the Act's four guiding principles
(accountability, flexibility and
local control, parental choice, and what works) are
brought to
bear
on many of these programs.
- Neglected,
Delinquent, and At-risk Youth (External link)
This is the non-regulatory guidance for Title I, Part D, Neglected, Delinquent,
and At-Risk Youth.
- Parental
Involvement (External
link)
The purpose of this guidance is to assist SEAs, LEAs, and schools
in administering the parental involvement provisions of Title I,
Part A
of the ESEA. This guidance answers questions about and clarifies
aspects of the law that have been brought to the attention of the
U.S. Department
of Education (ED).
- Public
School Choice (External
link)
This guidance highlights some important aspects of
the public school choice component of Title I,
and provides
guidance
on some provisions
that may
be useful in administering and implementing these
requirements. States may rely on this guidance in administering
these requirements.
- Reading
First (External
link)
This document is the final guidance for the Reading
First program. The purpose of Reading First is
to ensure that
all American
children learn
to read well by the end of third grade. This
document is archived.
- Report
Cards (External
link)
This document is the Non-Regulatory Report Card Guidance
and addresses commonly asked questions about
the Title I, Part
A report card
requirements. States and LEAs receiving Title
I funds must prepare and disseminate
annual report cards.
- Rural
Education Achievement Program - REAP (External
link)
This document is the guidance for the Rural Education
Achievement Program (REAP). The reauthorized
ESEA contains three separate
Rural Education
Achievement Program (REAP) initiatives that
are designed to help rural districts that
lack the personnel and resources to compete
effectively for Federal competitive grants and that receive
grant allocations in amounts
that are too small
to be effective in meeting their intended purposes.
- Schoolwide
Programs (External
link)
This document is the Non-Regulatory Guidance for
Designing Title I Schoolwide Programs.
- SEA
Procedures for Adjusting Basic, Concentration, Targeted, and Education
Finance Incentive Grant
Allocations (External
link)
Sections 200.70 through 200.75 and 200.100 of the
final regulations for Title I, Part A of the
Elementary and
Secondary Education
Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 published
on December
2,
2002 address the basic rules that an SEA must
follow in adjusting ED-determined LEA allocations. This
guidance provides examples
of how SEAs adjust
ED-determined
Basic, Concentration, Targeted, and Education
Finance Incentive
Grant allocations to make final grants to LEAs.
- Serving Preschool Children Under Title I - Non-Regulatory Guidance (External
link)
This policy guidance provides the rationale for
using Title I dollars for preschool services,
identifies the components
of
a quality
preschool program,
and addresses many of the administrative
issues that
often arise when implementing a Title I
preschool program.
- Standards
and Assessments (External
link)
Contains policy guidance on Standards and Assessments
under NCLB law and how this impacts Children
with Disabilities.
- Standards
and Assessments Peer Review (External
link)
The purpose of this guidance is to inform States about what would be
useful evidence to demonstrate that they have met NCLB standards and
assessments requirements; and to guide teams of peer reviewers who will
examine the evidence submitted by States and advise the Department as
to whether a State has met the requirements.
- Supplemental
Services (External
link)
Guidance on Supplemental educational services,
which refer to additional academic
instruction designed
to increase
the academic
achievement
of students in low-performing schools.
These services may include academic assistance
such as tutoring, remediation and
other educational interventions, provided
that such approaches are consistent
with the content and instruction used by the
local educational
agency
(LEA)
and are aligned
with the State's academic content standards.
- Title
I Fiscal Issues (External link)
Non-Regulatory Guidance on Title I Fiscal Issues: Maintenance of Effort
Comparability Supplement, not Supplant Carryover Consolidating Funds
in Schoolwide Programs Grantback Requirements
- Title
I Paraprofessionals (External
link)
The Title I Paraprofessionals Non-Regulatory
Guidance includes general information,
requirements for
paraprofessionals, paraprofessional
assessment, related issues
and funding issues. This guidance is
presented in a question and answer format.
- Title
I Services to Private School Children (External
link)
This guidance relates specifically to Title
I, Part A services for private school
children. It is intended
to be used
in conjunction with the authorizing
statute
and applicable regulations by both public
and private school officials.
- Title
II – Improving
Teacher Quality (External
link)
This document provides non-regulatory guidance
for the new Title II programs, which
focus on preparing, training,
and recruiting
high-quality teachers
and principals and requires States to develop
plans with annual measurable objectives
that will ensure that all teachers teaching
in core academic subjects are highly qualified
by the
end of the 2005-2006
school year.
- Title
II D – Enhancing
Education Through Technology (External
link)
This document provides guidance on the
purposes and goals of the Ed Tech program,
the State
and local
application processes
and
an entity's
eligibility
for a
grant award, the uses of Ed Tech funds, other
programmatic requirements, and the
relationship of various flexibility provisions to the program.
The Department will supplement this
document with
further guidance as
additional issues
arise during implementation
of the program.
- Title
III – State Formula
Grant Program – Part
I (External
link)
- Title
III – State Formula Grant Program – Part
II Standards Assessment and Accountability (External
link)
- Title
IV – Safe
and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (External
link)
Draft Non-regulatory Guidance for the Community
Service for Suspended and Expelled Students
formula grant
program This
program provided
funds to
States to carry
out programs under which students expelled
or suspended from school are required to perform community
service.
- Title
IV – Safe and Drug-Free Schools
and Communities Act – State
Grants (External
link)
States and local entities may rely on this guidance
in administering their SDFSCA State Grants Program.
- Title
V, Part A (External
link)
Guidance for Title V, Part A of the No Child
Left Behind Act. Title V-A provides formula
grants to
State and
local educational
agencies
for innovative
and
promising programs
- Unsafe
School Choice Option (External
link)
The Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO) (section 9532 of NCLB) requires
that each State receiving funds under the ESEA establish and implement
a statewide policy requiring that students attending a persistently
dangerous public school, or students who become victims of a violent
criminal offense while in or on the grounds of a public school that
they attend, be allowed to attend a safe public school. This document
provides guidance on some provisions that may be useful in administering
these requirements.
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