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Title I
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Title I offers support for the Omaha Public Schools by providing additional staff, additional curriculum resources, School Improvement Planning, staff training opportunities, smaller class sizes, and enhanced parent and family engagement to schools with the highest need. The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2016 (ESSA) and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), provide a framework for schools, families, and communities to work together to improve teaching and learning. Omaha Public Schools Title I supports 77 schools, provides targeted assistance to 30 private schools and serves 22 social services agencies.
School-Parent Compact
Each Title I school will develop a school-parent compact. This compact outlines how parents, school staff, and students share the responsibility for improving student outcomes and how they will build and develop a partnership to achieve those outcomes. The compact is discussed at parent-teacher conferences as it relates to individual student success. View a sample School-Parent Compact.The best way to be an involved family is by partnering with your child's school. Review the District's Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy.
Parent Right to Know Clause
Parents can at any time request information about their child's teacher and/or paraprofessional, their qualifications, and any certificates or endorsements.
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NonPublic Title I Education Students
Title I is aimed at helping private school children who live in participating public school attendance areas and who are failing or most at risk of failing to meet the state's challenging student academic achievement standards. Title I is required to provide eligible private school children, their teachers, and their families with Title I educational services or benefits that are equitable to those provided to eligible public school children, their teachers, and their families.
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Title I Part D: Supports for Students Identified as Neglected, Delinquent or At-Risk
- Provide educational services for children and youth in local and state institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth so that they have the opportunity to meet the same challenging state academic content and state student achievement standards that all children in the state are expected to meet.
- Provide these children with the services to enable them to transition successfully from institutionalization to further schooling or employment.
- Prevent at-risk youth from dropping out of school as well as to provide dropouts and children and youth returning from correctional facilities or institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth, with a support system to ensure their continued education.
Omaha Public Schools believes all students should have access to the same learning content and be challenged to meet high expectations. Title I provides prevention and intervention for students identified as neglected, delinquent or at-risk. It also supports students leaving correctional facilities, as they transition back to school or employment.
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