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Title
II, Part A
Title II Non Regulatory Guidance, Part A-C
NCLB
includes funding and programs that encourage school districts and
schools, especially those that are identified as low performing,
or have large numbers of teachers with emergency or provisional
certification, to improve the quality of teachers in their district.
The state education agency plan must define how parents, teachers,
principals, administrators, paraprofessionals and other school personnel
will work collaboratively in carrying out the activities of Title
II. In addition, each local agency Title II plan must include a
description of how it will provide training to enable teachers to
involve parents in their education.
One
of the allowable activities under Title II includes providing teacher
and principal professional development in working more effectively
with parents. In many cases, teachers and principals do not possess
the skills or knowledge about how to involve parents in school decision-making,
or how to effectively communicate with the home. Title I allows
school districts and schools to use Title II monies to implement
the parent involvement requirements of NCLB.
Title
II contains funding for teacher and principal training and
recruitment efforts at the state and local level, as well
as teacher training at institutions of higher education.
This Title is designed to provide special help for “high
need” school districts; and schools that have
been identified as needing improvement, having the lowest
proportion of “highly qualified” teachers, and
have the highest average class size under Title I. Title
II monies are designed to rectify the problems of large
numbers of students being taught by teachers with inadequate
content knowledge and preparation in the subjects they are
teaching.
Title
II replaces the old Eisenhower Professional Development
Program which sent a large portion of the federal funds
to local school districts, targeted money to high poverty
school districts, and limited the use of the money to teacher
training, recruitment and curricular improvement in science
and math. Title II also replaces the old Class Size Reduction
Program (CSR) aimed at class size reduction, teacher and
principal training and recruitment. While certain elements
of these two programs are still in the new Title II, the
current Title is much broader and is tied to the teacher
quality mandates of NCLB (see Teacher
Quality Fact Sheet).
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Purpose
of Title II
Title II provides the state education agency and local school districts
with money to improve the quality of teaching and principal leadership
through recruitment, teacher training and professional development,
and class size reduction. In addition, Title II contains eight separate
programs that are designed to enhance teacher and principal competency
and career development.
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