Template Originally Suggested at the 
Federal Programs Coordinators’ Conference
                 May 25-26, 2004                                                             Updated: June 2012
Title I, Part A
LEA PLANS Provisions
  Section 1112(b) 
Each LEA should have:
•	An effective plan date and an indication of LEA approval by an authorized individual or entity.
•	Documentation of the process employed in the development, approval, and regular revision of the plan.
•	Communication documents, agenda, minutes/notes of meetings and sign-in sheets.
•	Procedures and practices in place for disseminating individual student assessment results to teachers and parents.
•	Each plan should reflect current SDE and LEA policies; e.g., H.Q, Accountability, ACCESS, ARMT, etc

DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS

In General - To help low-achieving children meet challenging achievement academic standards, each local educational agency plan shall include:
 
(A)  A description of high-quality student academic assessments, if any, that are in addition to the academic assessments described in the State plan under section 1111(b)(3), that the local educational agency and schools served under this part will use—
•	To determine the success of children served under this part in meeting the State student academic achievement standards,
•	To provide information to teachers, parents, and students on the progress being made toward meeting the State student academic achievement standards described in Section 1111(b)(1)(D)(ii)*;
•	To assist in diagnosis, teaching, and learning in the classroom in ways that best enables low-achieving children served under this part to meet State student achievement academic standards and do well in the local curriculum;
•	To determine what revisions are needed to projects under this part so that such children meet the State student academic achievement standards;
•	To identify effectively students who may be a risk for reading failure or who are having difficulty reading, through the use of screening, diagnostic, and classroom-based instructional reading assessments, as defined under Section 1208**.

[*Reporting student progress using vocabulary describing three levels of achievement: Basic, Proficient, and Advanced]

[**Section 1208(7)(D) – The term “classroom-based instructional reading assessment” means an assessment that (i) evaluates children’s learning based on systematic observations by teachers of children performing academic tasks that are part of their daily classroom experience; and (ii) is used to improve instruction in reading, including classroom instruction.]

(B)  At the local educational agency’s discretion, a description of any other indicators that will be used in addition to the academic indicators described in Section 1111 for the uses described in such section.

(C)  A description of how the local educational agency will provide additional educational assistance to individual students assessed as needing help in meeting the State’s challenging student academic achievement standards.

(D)  A description of the strategy the local educational agency will use to coordinate programs under this part with programs under Title II to provide professional development for teachers and principals and, if appropriate, pupil services personnel, administrators, parents, and other staff including local educational agency level staff in accordance with sections 1118 and 1119.
 
(E)  A description of how the local educational agency will coordinate and integrate services provided under this part with other educational services at the local educational agency or individual school level, such as: 
•	Even Start, Head Start, Reading First, Early Reading First, and other preschool programs, including plans for the transition of participants in such programs to local elementary school programs; and
•	Services for children with limited English proficiency, children with disabilities, migratory children, neglected or delinquent youth, native American children served under part A of Title VII, homeless children, and immigrant children in order to increase program effectiveness, eliminate duplication, and reduce fragmentation of the instructional program.

(F)  An assurance that the local educational agency will participate, if selected, in the State National Assessment of Educational Progress in 4th and 8th grade reading and mathematics carried out under Section 411(b)(2) of the National Education Statistics Act of 1994. 

(G)  A description of the poverty criteria that will be used to select school attendance areas under Section 1113.

(H)  A description of how teachers, in consultation with parents, administrators, and pupil services, personnel, in targeted assistance schools under Section 1115, will identify the eligible children most in need of services under this part.

(I)  A general description of the nature of the programs to be conducted by such agency’s schools under the Schoolwide Program (Section 1114) and the Targeted Assistance Program (Section 1115) and, where appropriate, educational services outside such schools for children living in local institutions for neglected or delinquent children, and for neglected and delinquent children in community day school programs.

(J) A description of how the local educational agency will ensure that migratory children and formerly migratory children who are eligible to receive services under this part are selected to receive such services on the same basis as other children who are selected to receive services under this part.

(K)  If appropriate, a description of how the local educational agency will use funds under this part to support preschool programs for children, particularly children participating in Early Reading First, or in a Head Start or Even Start program, which services may be provided directly by the local educational agency or through a subcontract with the local Head Start agency designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under Section 641 of the Head Start Act, or an agency operating an Even Start program, an Early Reading First program, or another comparable public early childhood development program.

(L)  A description of the actions the local educational agency will take to assist its low-achievement schools identified under Section 1116 as in need of improvement.

(M)  A description of the actions the local educational agency will take to implement public school choice and supplemental services, consistent with the requirements of Section 1116.

(N)  A description of how the local educational agency will meet the requirements of Section 1119, Qualifications for Teachers and Paraprofessionals.   

(O)  A description of the services the local educational agency will provide homeless children, including services provided with funds reserved under Section 1113(c)(3)(A).

(P)  A description of the strategy the local educational agency will use to implement effective parental involvement under Section 1118.  (Note:  Your LEA’s complete parental involvement plan with all required components should be included as a part of this LEA Title I Plan or as an addendum to this plan.)

(Q)  	A description of the process/procedures the LEA uses to ensure the implementation of the Parents Right-to-Know provisions under Section 1111(h)(6), Section 1112(g), and Section 3302.

(R) Where appropriate, a description of how the local educational agency will use funds under this part to support after school (including before school and summer school) and school-year extension programs.