Welcome to Title I

Program Staff

Basic -- Migrant -- Even Start -- Neglected

Basic

The Federal Programs Unit in the Department of Education houses the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) programs. The Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) of 1994 (P.L. 103-382) reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Title I of the IASA is designed to help disadvantaged children meet challenging content and student performance standards. Part A of Title I provides financial assistance through State Educational Agencies (SEA's) to Local Education Agencies (LEA's). Funds are distributed to LEA schools with high numbers of children from low-income families, for LEA programs which target individual students most at risk of not meeting the standards, and to local institutions for neglected or delinquent children.

Title I supports local educational agencies in:

• Improving teaching by promoting effective instruction for at-risk children and for enriched and accelerated programs;

• Expanding eligibility of schools for school-wide programs that serve all children;

• Encouraging school-based planning;

• Establishing accountability based on results;

• Promoting effective parental participation;

• Supporting coordination with health and social services agencies;

• Focusing resources on the schools with the highest percentage of students in poverty.

The Department plays a critical role in funding and monitoring Title I programs for the State. It does so by providing technical assistance, coordination of services, and interpreting the applicable state and federal laws, regulations, and policies.

Committee of Practitioners

Wyoming Department of Education Title I Schoolwide Application

Migrant

The Migrant Education Program (MEP) is authorized under Part C of Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The MEP ensures that migrant workers children have access to the same free, appropriate public education, including public preschool education, provided to other children. The MEP provides formula grants to state education agencies to establish or improve programs of education for children of qualifying migrant workers.

Wyoming has three high quality, comprehensive education programs for migrant children designed to help reduce the educational disruption and other problems that result from repeated moves. These Programs are located in:

• Lovell - Shane Roberts (307) 548-2247
• Worland – Vicky Gopp (307) 347-3165
• Torrington – Shelly Sims and Alice Thompson (307) 532-7014
  

Migrant Directors 2006-2007
Big Horn Basin Seasonal Farmworkers Collaboration Team

Even Start

The Wyoming Even Start Family Literacy Programs are federally funded projects designed to break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving the educational opportunities of Wyoming's low-income families. Using existing community resources, this unified family literacy program integrates early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education.

Even Start utilizes the family literacy model in intergenerational learning focused on the family. Even Start recognizes the parent as the child's first teacher and the literacy of the parent is crucial to the literacy development of the child. The Wyoming Even Start Projects all contain these four components:

• Early childhood and/or school-age educational assistance

• Adult basic skills education

• Parents and children learning together

• Parent time: parent support and education

The Even Start Program is administered by the Wyoming Community College Commission

Neglected and Delinquent

Educational services to children in local and state institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth is authorized under Part D of Title 1 in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The primary purpose is to provide these children the opportunity to meet the same challenging educational content standards that all children in the State will be expected to meet.

The Wyoming Boy's School in Worland and the Wyoming Girl's School in Sheridan provide the services needed to make a successful transition from institutionalization to further schooling or employment and to prevent at-risk youth from dropping out of school.

Contacts for Court-Placed Students