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Federally Funded Education Programs

Federally Funded Educational Programs

Reading First
http://www.ed.gov/programs/readingfirst/index.html
This program focuses on putting proven methods of early reading instruction in classrooms. Through Reading First, states and districts receive support to apply scientifically based reading research—and the proven instructional and assessment tools consistent with this research—to ensure that all children learn to read well by the end of third grade.

Language Acquisition State Grants (Formerly Bilingual Education)
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html?src=mr
This program enables states, school districts, schools, or other eligible entities to implement English-as-a-second-language (ESL) programs or other appropriate instructional programs on a school-wide or a system-wide basis. Money may be used for services and activities, such as curriculum development, purchase of instructional materials, education software, tutoring and counseling, or to pay for personnel trained to provide services to Limited English Proficient (LEP) students.

Magnet Schools Assistance in Desegregating Districts
http://www.magnet.edu
These funds are available to school districts that are under a court-ordered or federally mandated desegregation plan. Schools are designed to support an enhanced curriculum and attract racially diverse student populations.

Title I
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/CEP
This formula grant program provides districts with extra resources to help improve instruction in high-poverty schools and ensure that poor and minority children have the same opportunities as their peers to meet the challenging state academic standards. States must develop standards in reading and math and assessments linked to those standards for all students in grades 3 to 8. Funds may be used for activities that scientifically based research suggests will be most effective in helping all students meet these standards.

Title III Funding
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iduestitle3a/index.html
The program helps eligible IHEs to become self-sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions.