Federal Programs

Federal funds are obtained through which a public school district applies to the Wyoming Department of Education for Federal entitlement and formula funding. The application process is done once a year and requires districts and schools to think in an integrated fashion about the ways in which they will utilize the Federal funds to supplement other resources.

 

Parent, staff, non-profit private/home schools and community involvement is required in the development of the grant application and the use of Federal program funds. In the 2015-2016 fiscal year, Goshen County School District No. 1 received approximately $1.9 million in federal funding. The following is a breakdown of the larger funded programs.

 

Title I-A ($884,418): The oldest Federal program included within the ESEA of 1965 was re-authorized in 2002, as No Child Left Behind Law 107-110. Title I is designed to help disadvantaged children meet challenging content and student performance stands, provides financial assistance to schools based on the number of children from low-income families.

 

The Title I funds in Goshen County School District are provided for our elementary schools and all elementary students (school-wide). School-wide programs encompass four major facets: 1) School-wide programs are designed to upgrade the entire education system in the school in order to raise academic achievement for all students; 2) School-wide programs provide great latitude in determining how to spend Title I program funds. Program funds do not have to identify particular children as eligible; 3) School-wide programs permit flexibility to combine other Federal funds to support reform efforts; and 4) School-wide programs focus on student achievement.

 

 

Title II-A ($221,103): The purpose of the Title II-A program is to 1) increase student academic achievement through strategies such as improving teacher and principal quality and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom and highly qualified principals and assistant principals in schools; and 2) to hold local education agencies and schools accountable for improvements in student academic achievement.

 

Some of the allowable activities for Title II-A are assisting schools in recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers and provide professional development activities that improve the knowledge of teachers, principals, paraprofessionals in one or more of the core academic subjects and in effective instructional strategies and use of challenging State academic content standards.

 

 

Title IV Safe and Drug Free ($139,657): Title IV funding provides the district and the schools to provide well-rounded educational opportunities such as improving access to foreign language instruction, arts, and music education, supporting college and career counseling, including providing information on opportunities for financial aid through early FAFSA, providing programming to improve instruction and student engagement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), promoting access to accelerated learning opportunities including Advanced Placement (AP) and dual or concurrent enrollment programs, strengthen instruction in social studies; provide safe and healthy students through promoting community and parent involvement in schools, providing school-based mental health services and counseling, supportive school climates to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline and promoting supportive school discipline, establishing or improving dropout prevention, programs and transition services for justice-involved youth, programs that support a healthy, active lifestyle (nutritional and physical education, systems and practices to prevent bullying and harassment; effective use of technology to support high-quality professional development for educators, school leaders, and administrators to personalize learning and improve academic achievement, building technological capacity and infrastructure, innovative blended learning projects, deliver specialized or rigorous academic courses and curricula using technology, including digital learning technologies and assistive technology

 

 

IDEA Part B 611 ($563,802): IDEA Part B is a Federally funded entitlement program providing special education funding to eligible local education agencies to provide a free appropriate public education to students with disabilities, ages 3 to 21. IDEA funds are used to pay the excess costs of providing special education and related services to students with disabilities.

 

Examples of IDEA Part B allowable activities are: 1) providing professional training and quality staff development opportunities; 2) providing resources to ensure a free appropriate public education (FAPE); 3) promoting effective parental participation; 4) encouraging systemic planning and evaluation; 5) instructional equipment and supplies for innovative programs; 6) extended school year services for students with disabilities that qualify according to the IEP team, summer school activities for students with disabilities and 7) new/supplemental staff positions.

 

 

 

 

Perkins ($59,034): Perkins money provides secondary (grades 7-12) students the opportunity to receive vocational and technical training. Perkins funding is used to improve the academic skills of vocational and technical education students through the integration of academic, vocational and technical programs. The funding helps strengthen the connections between secondary and post secondary vocational and technical education programs, by implementing dual enrollment, articulation agreements and tech prep programs.