Title I

Title I services in Mustang Public Schools are made possible by federal funding that is set aside to states under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The purpose of this law is to improve educational opportunities in schools with high concentrations of poverty.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015. This measure reauthorizes the nations's national education law and longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students. The law builds on key areas of progress, including:

Advancing equity to disadvantaged and high-need students.
Requires that all students be taught to high academic standards.
Ensures that vital information is provides to educators, families, students, and communities through statewide assessments.
Helps to support and grow local innovations,
Sustains and expands historic investments in increasing access to high-quality preschool.
Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in the lowest-performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress, and where graduation rates are low over extended periods of time.

What is Title I?

Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides financial assistance to states and school districts to meet the needs of educationally at-risk students. The goal of Title I is to provide extra instructional services and activities which support students identified as failing or most at risk of failing the state's challenging performance standards in core areas.

What will Title I do for my child?

Which schools does Title I serve?

The program serves students in elementary schools who have demonstrated that extra assistance is needed. Mustang currently has eleven elementary, intermediate and middle school sites who qualify for Title I; Mustang Elementary, Centennial Elementary, Creek Elementary, Trails Elementary, Riverwood, Canyon Ridge, Meadow Brook, Mustang Horizon, Mustang Central Middle School, Mustang Middle School, and Mustang North Middle School.

How do schools receive Title I funding?

First, the federal government provides funding to each state. Then, each State Educational Agency sends money to its school districts. The amount of funding each district receives is dependent upon the number of low-income students attending that district. This is where filling out the FRL Form can help MPS.

Finally, Title I schools conduct an annual needs assessment, use the results of the needs assessment to develop a school wide plan, and finally review/update their plans in relation to the goals and whether student achievement has increased.

What do Title I programs offer?

Contact Us

Email Federal Programs

Amy Hill,
Director of Federal Programs

Michelle Mullens
Executive Administrative Assistant
405-376-7842
Email Michelle

Downloads

Title I Parent Involvement Policy

Title I Parent & Family ENgagement Policy

Links

Free and Reduced Lunch Online Application

Schoolwide Programs

A schoolwide program is a comprehensive reform strategy designed to upgrade the entire educational program in a Title I school. Mustang Public Schools has 10 Title I schools that have a schoolwide program. The elementary schools included are Mustang Elementary, Trails Elementary, Creek Elementary, Centennial Elementary, and Riverwood Elementary School. All three intermediate sites, Canyon Ridge, Meadow Brook, and Mustang Horizon, have schoolwide programs. Schoolwide programs are also in place at Mustang Central Middle School, Mustang Middle School, and Mustang North Middle School.

The primary goal of a schoolwide program is to ensure that all students, particularly those who are low-achieving, demonstrate proficient and advanced levels of achievement on State academic achievement tests.

There are three core elements of a schoolwide program:

1) A school must conduct a comprehensive needs assessment that identifies the school's strengths and weaknesses in key areas that affect student achievement.

2) The school must develop a comprehensive schoolwide plan that describes how it will achieve the goals it has identified as a result of the needs assessment.

3) The school must evaluate annually the outcomes and the plan's implementation to determine whether the academic achievement of all students, and particularly of low-achieving students, improved, whether the goals and objectives contained in the plan were achieved, and if the plan is still appropriate.

How can I get involved?

How can I get involved?

Parents can influence the success of their children in school more than any teacher or federal program. By becoming an active participant in the Title I parent committee at your school, you will:

Serve as a role model, showing your child that you support his/her education.
Assure you are aware of your child's educational progress; thereby demonstrating how important progress is to you.
Teach your child your input at the school is appreciated and you support its efforts.

What does the research say?

What does research tell us?

Research shows student performance in school depends a great deal upon how much their parents are involved in their education. You can become more involved by:

Joining local and national school/parent organizations
Supporting school extra-curricular activities
Volunteering at the school
Attending parent-teacher conferences
Communicating with your child's teacher regularly, by writing notes, telephoning the school, etc.
Keeping your child's teacher informed about events in his/her life which may affect his/her performance at school
Discussing with your child's teacher and parent organizations other ideas for parent involvement.

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