Assessment/Accountability No Child Left Behind
Title I

Fiscal Information

• How the Federal Government Allocates Funds to States and Districts
• How Districts Allocate Funds to Schools
• Maintenance of Effort, Comparability of Services and Supplement, Not Supplant
• Time and Effort Reporting
• Transferability, Flexibility, and Program Coordination
• Ed-Flex Waivers
• Reservations / Set-Asides
• Carryover Funds
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Reservations / Set-Asides

NCLB requires some schools and/or districts to set aside a portion of their Title I Part funds as follows:

• For professional development activities to ensure that teachers who are not highly qualified become highly qualified (5% of district funds);

• For addressing the professional development needs of instructional staff in a school or district identified for improvement, corrective action or restructuring; and

• For costs related to NCLB school choice and supplemental educational services in Title I schools identified for improvement, corrective action or restructuring (an amount equal to 20% of the district's Title Part A allocation from either the district's Title I funds or local sources).

Districts may reserve funds necessary for district-level activities prior to allocating them to eligible schools, including those related to:

• Administrative costs;

• Professional development;

• Parent involvement (School districts with $500,000 or more must reserve at school districts 1 percent for parent involvement with 95 percent of those reserved funds allocated to individual schools); and

• Services to eligible children who do not attend Title I schools (e.g., homeless children, migrant children, children in local institutions for neglected and delinquent) other district-wide activities, such as, but not limited, to preschool, summer school, Even Start Family Literacy and school improvement activities equitable services to private school students.

October 12, 2004 Policy Letter from the U.S. Department of Education to States regarding use of Title I funds