McMinnville School District Title I-A School Level Plan

This school is identified as receiving school-wide Title I-A federal funding. The purpose of Title I, Part A is to provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable and high-quality education and ensure that all children meet challenging academic standards. Title I-A provides financial assistance to districts and schools who serve a larger population of children from families experiencing poverty.

The schoolwide plan for this investment is as follows:

• Title I teachers and assistants provide additional support in reading to students who are below grade level on district assessments. Each quarter, school and district staff look at district assessments to determine the number of students in the at-risk category and ensure that all of them are receiving an appropriate intervention for reading. Title I assistants and teachers are utilized in a similar way to support students with math intervention using district data to determine need. This directly ties to the school and district goals of ensuring the targeted intervention to promote growth for each student based on their individualized learning needs with a multitiered system of support approach. This promotes equity of outcome for our students, especially those in focal populations historically underserved in educational systems.

• Title I-A is a program created by the United States Department of Education to distribute funding to schools and school districts with a high percentage of students from low-income families. This elementary school is a school wide Title I-A school. In our building the Title I-A program offers additional support in the way of instructional assistants and a full time reading teacher. Our district and schools recognize that this is a partnership between teachers, parents and students with the following commitments:

  • Commitment to strong attendance
  • Commitment to regular communication about student progress
  • Participation in family/teacher conferences
  • High quality materials for instruction
  • Highly supportive learning environment

• MSD board policy outlines parent rights with the following policies:

  • KAB & KAB-AR Parental Rights
  • IGBC & IGBC-AR Title I-A Parental and Family Involvement

• Questions about Title I-A can be directed to:

  • Buel principal
  • Buel reading teacher
  • Dr. Kourtney Ferrua, D.Ed., Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment