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Warren County Schools details Title I, Title V and other federal program allocations
Summary
District staff described how Title I, II, III and V funds are being used, reported nine Title I schools with poverty rates ranging from 52% to 83%, and said the district identified about 100 students as homeless last year.
District staff briefed the Warren County Schools board on federal programs funding and how the district intends to use Title I, II, III and V allocations in the coming year.
"We have nine of our total schools that qualify for Title I status," said Dr. Shay Painter, a member of the district’s federal programs staff. She told the board that the nine Title I schools have poverty rates ranging from 52% to 83% and that all district schools are at least 40% in concentrated poverty, which qualifies the district for related grants.
Painter described typical Title I uses: materials for small-group instruction, parent-engagement activities, supplements such as band rentals and support for reading and math interventions. She said Title II funds were used for outside vendors to increase teacher development and that the district qualified for Title V in the coming year after falling short the previous year due to a 19.8% concentrated-poverty threshold for grades 5–12. "This year, we're back up where we can have Title V," Painter said, and the district plans to use Title V for arts-based catch-up work, bullying/harassment training and tutoring.
Board members asked about homelessness and testing compliance. When asked, Painter said, "This past year... we had a hundred" students identified as homeless. She also thanked testing coordinators for their work and said in grades 2–8 there were only five eligible students who did not complete testing.
Painter said the consolidated federal application for IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and ESEA (the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) was prepared for board approval and submission to the state. She also described a district-level resolution required for management of federal program funds (referred to in the meeting as the federal GRAMA budget resolution), which the district must forward to the county commission for its approval because the county manages the general-purpose budget for the school system.
Board members praised the federal programs staff for outreach and planning and asked for continued clarity on allocations and how funds will be spent at school and classroom levels.
