Congressional Notification of School Year 2002-2003 Title I Allocations, May 16, 2002

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202-6132 May 16, 2002 CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF SCHOOL YEAR 2002-2003 TITLE I ALLOCATIONS Funds appropriated under Public Law (PL) 107-116, the Department of Education’s Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2002, for programs or activities authorized by Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act (PL 107-1 10). Recipients: 50 States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Outlying Areas Description: Enclosed is a State table that lists school year (SY) 2002-2003 formula allocations for Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs), Even Start, and the State Agency Neglected or Delinquent program. Except for a portion of Title I Grants to LEAs, these funds will become available for obligation on July 1, 2002. For Basic Grants, $3,054,734,000 will become available to the States on July 1, 2002 and $4,043,042,290 will become available on October 1, 2002. All of the funds appropriated for Concentration, Targeted, and Education Finance Incentive Grants will become available on October 1, 2002. A brief description of the Title I formulas and purposes of these programs for which the Department of Education (ED) is announcing allocations follows. Grants to Local Educational Agencies (Title I. Part A) Title I Grants to LEAs provide financial assistance to school districts for services that improve the teaching and learning of children at risk of not meeting challenging academic standards, especially those children who reside in areas with high concentrations of children from low- income families. Funds are reserved to meet the special educational needs of Indian children in schools supported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and for the Outlying Areas. In addition, up to $3.5 million in funds from Title I Basic Grants supports updating census poverty data used to make allocations to LEAs. The Department of Education (ED) allocates Title I, Part A funds to school districts through four statutory formulas — Basic Grants, Concentration Grants, Targeted Grants, and Education Finance Incentive Grants. The following describes the specific allocation provisions for each formula funded under PL 107-1 16. Column 1 — Basic Grants (Title I. Part A. section 1124) — ED allocates Basic Grant funds to LEAs through a statutory formula based primarily on the number of children, ages 5 through 17, from low-income families and on each State’s per-pupil expenditure for education. In order to