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Does anyone know which schools actually receive Title I funding versus how many of our schools actually qualify? I was told our school did not accept the money because there were too much red tape associated with it.

Each school does not have the authority to accept or decline, the levels are set by BOE. The US government says that any school with 75% FRL must be title 1, our threshold is lower, a few years ago is was 40% for elem, 45 for middle and 55 for HS-- that has been raised, but I can't remember the numbers.

The high schools changed to 75% last year. I'm pretty sure the middlw schools will change to 75% this year and next year all schools will need to have 75% of their kids on FRL before they can receive services.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Will the "Tutoring" that you mention be made Mandatory for the Failing Students????????

It seems that I read that a very Low percentage of students take advantage of this service.

Once again,,,, I think that Dr. Grief will be able to avoid NCLB penalties for allowing schools to continuously FAIL....

At what point do the Citizens of Guilford County get fed up with the Half-Ass Leadership that Dr. Grief has given our Students????????

Dr. Grief has stayed one step ahead of the "Sanction Police",, and has spent to much time and Taxpayers $$$$ trying to protect his Questionable Reputation at the Expense of the Futures of Our Children.....

Wake-Up People!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grier,,Kearns,,,Mendenhall,,,Cooke,,,,Hayes,,,,Sykes and Duncan all have different Agendas,,,but the one thing they all have in common is they have been around long enough to accept responsibility for the DOWNWARD SPIRAL that GCS is now incurring.....

How long will the Public allow GCS leadership to continue to FAIL at Their Duties????????

Change must come soon....

Slak,

From what I understand, the tutoring is based on the choice of parents. If students are eligible - meaning they are poor enough to qualify for federally subsidized meals - then parents can request the tutoring.

I don't believe that NCLB allows districts to make the tutoring mandatory for failing students. In fact, students don't have to be failing to be eligible. They just have to be considered at-risk (based on poverty indicators).

But I'll double check with the Title I folks.

Jennifer,

While you're checking, I'd like to know why the state goes through all the trouble to administer writing tests to 3rd, 7th and 10th graders, when the scores mean NOTHING. Failure on these tests mean NOTHING and there is NO concern when a student fails this test. What the heck is it for then? Where's the tutoring here? Free meals should have NOTHING to do with whether or not a student gets/needs tutoring! So since my child can afford her meals she can not request any tutoring?

Dear Confused,
that is correct! The federal gov't only pays for tutoring if you meed the FRL standard, not if you need the help. And you can't be made to take the tutoring, and most parents don't get it for their children. Every polls says that parents think that their school is fine, and that the schools as a whole aren't fine!

Tutoring is provided for students who are at risk of not passing the EOGs. I was a tutor at a school where they paid the staff extra to stay after for additional instruction. During the school day, time was not wasted. Students were pulled all during the course of the day for additional instruction.

I think most schools are trying all they can but what about the parents? I had one parent ask me if her youngest, who didn't need tutoring stay after with her oldest, who needed tutoring, so she could have some free time. I was thinking she was home all day without them. Here's a parent who was more concerned with her youngest being able to stay after school then her oldest who needed the tutoring.

That type of attitude needs to change. All parents regardless of income need to more involved in their children's education; the schools are doing their part; they need to do theirs.

I taught at a Title I middle school last year where tutors were paid to come in and remediate students during the school day...Parents and students both were very resistant to the opportunity because the students were losing an Encore. Often times, students wouldn't show up and/or their parents would write notes to take their children out of tutoring. Those kids did not do well at all on the reading EOG. They barely passed with the lowest 3, got a 2 with one to two standard errors of measurement, or didn't pass at all. Those who did go through with the tutoring did better. Tutoring works, if you work it...Sending students who are not academically successful to another school isn't going to make them succeed without interventions there. Many of the students in tutoring had more behavior issues than learning issues; neither transferring nor tutoring can address that!

I highly recommend the N&R do an article with Dr. Svi Shapiro of UNCG. He was brilliant on NPR's "The State of Things" debating one of the test-creators for NCLB.