The Commission to Study the Adequacy and Equity of Certain Cost Components of the School Funding Formula was created in legislation crafted by the Joint Standing Committee on Education of the 126th Legislature (the "Education Committee"). The legislation was enacted as Resolve 2014, chapter 114. Creation of the Commission is the latest…

Austin Independent School District used more than $31 million federal Title I, Part A funds in the 2009-2010 school year to support almost 45,000 students at 71 Title I schools. This report summarizes compliance and service data.

This report summarizes results from the 2007 Austin Independent School District summer school program at those Title I schools that provided summer services to students who did not attend other district summer school programs.

A random sample of fourth and eighth grade Title I students who either did or did not attend summer school was tested to determine what effect the Title I summer school program had on student achievement and summer loss in reading and mathematics. Academic achievement was assessed by the Stanford Achievement Tests. The results indicated summer…

This is a series of seven reports describing and evaluating the following physical or basic skills development programs: Bicycle Program, Camping Program, Swim For Your Life, Outward Bound, Physical Skills Development Program, Community Summer School Programs, and Operation Recover. Modes of program operation and statistical data about students…

The purpose of the 1975 Migrant Summer School was to: (1) expand the migrant child's vocabulary, (2) improve his academic ability, (3) develop cultural enrichment, and (4) facilitate social adjustment. Specific objectives were: (1) developing reading skills to enable students to read easily materials on different levels, (2) developing writing…

The objectives of the Minneapolis summer school program, which was aimed at those youngsters showing the greatest need as determined by the fall 1974 needs assessment, were to maintain and/or improve the reading skills; math skills; attitudes toward school, reading, math, and self of Title I students. This study is based on randomly selected…

Austin Independent School District served more than 13,000 students in summer programs during 2009, providing opportunities for accelerated learning, maintenance of academic skills between school years, course credit recovery, state achievement tests, or school-level transition activities. This report summarizes this information.

The Head Start Program, established in the summer of 1971 in District 15 in Brooklyn, is a pre-school program for children of economically disadvantaged families. Its two main goals are: (1) to prepare children with no prior school experience for entry into kindergarten and first grade and (2) to involve parents in the education of their children…

This interim report summarizes the procedures and results of the Sustaining Effects Study (SES) on Compensatory Education, conducted at selected elementary schools during the 1967-77 school year. Data from the study are presented for the following findings: (1) poor and educationally needy children are the principal recipients of Compensatory…

THIS REPORT CONTAINS EVALUATIONS OF 1965-66 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TITLE I PROJECTS IN THE CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE PROJECTS EITHER OFFERED ENRICHMENT AND REMEDIATION AT THE ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, OR ADULT LEVEL OR ESTABLISHED SUMMER SCHOOLS OR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS. EACH EVALUATION CONTAINS A PROJECT NARRATIVE AND A…

These studies were undertaken to evaluate the 1967 summer school programs in the District of Columbia funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. There were 18 different Title I programs, involving approximately 15,000 students. There were two main aspects of the evaluation: (1) the statistical aspects included a…

The 1975-76 program aimed to: raise or maintain the rate of gain in computational and communicational skills of each student in the tutorial program; improve the computational and communicational skills of each student in the "Career Development" program; increase each "Career Development" student's awareness of, specific…