Title V, Part A, Specific Requirements for Serving Private Schools

• OPI ESEA Title V
  Part A
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Purpose

Title V, Part A, Innovative Programs supports education reform and innovative school improvement programs to improve school, student, and teacher performance.

Title V, Part A:

• Provides support in 27 different activities such as library materials/media and professional development, not all of which are available to private schools.
• Generally the amount of services and materials is limited, but it is the most flexible of all the Title programs.
• Most private schools use these funds to support their libraries.

Title V, Part A services to private/nonpublic schools are governed by Title V, Part A statute and guidance.

Administrative Requirements 

• The public district retains control over and title to all materials purchased with Title V, Part A funds

• The public district ensures that materials are

• The public district ensures that materials

• The public district assigns one employee to work with participating private schools
• The public district ensures that materials
  

  Benefit specific needs of private school students Do not benefit the general needs of private school students Do not benefit the private schools themselves

Professional Development Programs for Private School Teachers can be Different from that for Public School Teachers

• If the professional development needs of the private school teachers are different from those of the public school teachers, the district and the private school representative should develop a separate program.
• Consultation and coordination are essential to ensuring high quality, sustained, intensive, and classroom-focused professional development activities

Stipends may be paid to Private School Teachers for Professional Development Activities

• The use of the funds for stipends must be reasonable and necessary.  For example, if the professional development activity is conducted during after-school hours or in the summer, stipends may be needed to compensate educators for their participation outside their regular employment hours.
• Funds must be paid directly to the private school teacher, not to their school.

Substitutes may not be hired for Private School Teachers to Attend Professional Development Activities

• Funds may be not used to pay for substitutes for private school educators. 
• To provide a substitute, funds would have to be given directly to the private school and this is prohibited.

Supplement, Not Supplant

As with all federal funds, Title V, Part A funds must supplement public and private district funds.  It is the duty of the public district to ensure that funds used for private school services do not supplant private school funds.

Guidance

Section E of the Title V, Part A Guidance covers the requirements for providing services to private schools.  The Guidance is posted at http://www.ed.gov/programs/innovative/titlevguidance2002.doc