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Laredo ISD details federal grants for 2024–25, highlighting Title I payroll, Title IV safety initiatives and support for 12,000 emerging bilinguals
Summary
At its June 20 meeting, Laredo ISD presented planned federal program spending: $15.6M for Title I (mostly payroll), $1.1M for Title IV (including vape detectors and cell-signal projects), Title III support for roughly 12,000 emerging bilinguals, IDEA B special education allocations and Perkins CTE support.
Laredo ISD staff presented the district’s planned uses for federal grant funds for 2024–25 during the June 20 public meeting item on federal programs.
Miss Oralia Cortez, identified in the record as a federal programs leader, presented Title I funding of $15,600,000, saying most of that money — about $12,400,000 — is allocated to payroll. Cortez described Title I uses as supplemental intervention and enrichment programs, instructional facilitators at campus level, digital learning specialists and behavior specialists, parent and family engagement and professional development. She said all 28 campuses qualify as Title I schoolwide campuses because of economically disadvantaged student counts.
Cortez outlined Title IV ($1,100,000) priorities in three required areas: well-rounded education…
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