Title I, Part A (often referred to simply as Title I) provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards. Federal funds are currently allocated through four statutory formulas that are based primarily on census poverty estimates and the cost of education in each state.

How Reading Plus Supports Title I, Part A:

• Read how Reading Plus significantly raises the reading achievement of students who are eligible for subsidized lunch.
• Read how Reading Plus significantly raises the reading achievement of both low- and high-performing students.

Title I, Part C funds support high-quality education programs for migratory children and help ensure that migratory children are provided with appropriate education services that address their special needs. These funds also help ensure that such children receive full and appropriate opportunities to meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet. States use program funds to identify eligible children and provide education and support services. These services include: academic instruction; remedial and compensatory instruction; bilingual and multicultural instruction; vocational instruction; career education services; special guidance; counseling and testing services; health services; and preschool services.

This is a formula grant.

How Reading Plus Supports Title I, Part C:

• Explore our efficacy research with English learners
• Read the WIDA PRIME V2 Correlation document.

Title III funds help ensure that English learners (ELs) attain English proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement in English. Funds can be used to provide professional development, specific academic support for EL and immigrant students, and other effective activities and strategies that enhance or supplement instruction for ELs, which must include parent, family, and community engagement activities, and may include strategies that serve to coordinate and align related programs. An LEA may also use Title III funds for a number of activities such as providing community participation programs, family literacy services, and parent outreach and training to ELs and their families, and improving the instruction of ELs, which may include English learners with disabilities, by acquiring or developing educational technology and accessing electronic networks.

This is a formula grant.

How Reading Plus Supports Title III, Part A:

• Explore our efficacy research with English learners
• Read the WIDA PRIME V2 Correlation document.
• Learn how Reading Plus significantly raises the reading achievement of students with learning disabilities.

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools. The program helps students meet state and local student standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and math; offers students a broad array of enrichment activities that can complement their regular academic programs; and offers literacy and other educational services to the families of participating children.

This is a competitive grant.

How Reading Plus Supports 21st CCLC Grantees:

• Read about personalized practice within the Reading Plus program.
• Explore our efficacy research.

The purpose of the Small, Rural School Achievement (SRSA) program is to provide rural LEAs with financial assistance to fund initiatives aimed at improving student academic achievement.

Grantees may use funds to carry out activities authorized under any of the following federal programs:

Title I-A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Education Agencies)
Example: A school district develops an entrepreneurial education program to supplement its civics curriculum.

Title II-A (Supporting Effective Instruction)
Example: A school district pays the stipend for a prospective teacher to work alongside an effective teacher, who is the teacher of record, for a full academic year.

Title III (Language Instruction for English Learners and Immigrant Students)
Example: A school district offers an after school enrichment program for English learners.

Title IV-A (Student Support and Academic Enrichment)
Example: A school district purchases programs that support social-emotional learning (SEL) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS).

Title IV-B (21st Century Community Learning Centers)
Example: A school district purchases programs to support subject-specific academic achievement.

This is a formula grant.

How Reading Plus supports REAP programs:

• Read how reading motivation and reading success are a two-way street.
• Read how Reading Plus significantly raises the reading achievement of students who are eligible for subsidized lunch.
• Explore our efficacy research.

The Title VI program is designed to address the unique cultural, language, and educationally related academic needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students and help these students meet challenging state academic standards. Grant funds supplement the regular school program by meeting the academic needs of Indian children. Projects help Indian children sharpen their academic skills and assist students in becoming proficient in core content areas.

This is a formula grant.

How Reading Plus Supports Indian Education:

• Read how Reading Plus significantly raises the reading achievement of students who are eligible for subsidized lunch.
  Read the Walatowa High Charter School case study.

GEAR UP is designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. GEAR UP provides six-year grants to states and partnerships to provide services at high-poverty middle and high schools. GEAR UP grantees serve an entire cohort of students beginning no later than the seventh grade and follow the cohort through high school. GEAR UP funds are also used to provide college scholarships to low-income students.

GEAR UP offers state and partnership grants. State grants are competitive six-year matching grants that must include both an early intervention component designed to increase college attendance and success and raise the expectations of low-income students and a scholarship component. Partnership grants are competitive six-year matching grants that must support an early intervention component and may support a scholarship component designed to increase college attendance and success and raise the expectations of low-income students.

This is a competitive grant.

How Reading Plus Supports GEAR UP programs:

• Discover how reading motivation and reading success are a two-way street.
• See how Reading Plus significantly raises the reading achievement of students who are eligible for subsidized lunch.

IAL supports high-quality programs designed to develop and improve literacy skills for children and students from birth through 12th grade in high-need LEAs and schools. Funds may be used to provide up-to-date literacy materials, literacy promotion, and provide high-quality books on a regular basis to children and adolescents from low-income communities to increase reading motivation, performance, and frequency.

This is a competitive grant.

How Reading Plus Supports Innovative Approaches to Literacy:

• Discover how Reading Plus significantly raises reading achievement of students who are eligible for subsidized lunch.