DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROPOSES ADDITIONAL TITLE I REGULATIONS
COMMENTS DUE SEPTEMBER 5th
The U.S. Department of Education has published its proposed regulations for Title I, Parts A through E. Comments are due by September 5th.
The proposed regulations cover a wide range of important topics – such as adequate yearly progress, schoolwide programs, school and district improvement and accountability (including the new provisions for supplemental services and public school choice for students in low-performing schools), qualifications of teachers and paraprofessionals, fund allocations to districts and schools, programs for migrant students, etc. This package does not include the regulations for standards and assessments, for which the final regulations were issued on July 5th. (And, unlike the regulations for standards and assessments, these proposed regulations did not first go through “negotiated rulemaking.”)
The proposed regulations are available on line in the August 6th Federal Register (in a typeset PDF version - 42 pages). Go to: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a020806c.html, scroll down the table of contents to the Education Department, and click on the PDF version of the first item ("Improving academic achievement of disadvantaged students . . . .")
The proposed regulations are also available in a much lengthier typed version (246 pages) on the Department of Education’s web site, as either a Word File: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SASA/nprmtitleifinal.doc or as a PDF File: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SASA/nprmtitleifinal.pdf.
Given the length of the proposed regulations, it will take us some time to analyze them
and draft comments. In the interim, however, CLE has quickly done a table of contents to help us
all navigate through it. (We have done two versions of the table of contents – one tied to the
Federal Register pages, the other tied to the typed PDF version on the Department’s web site.
Both tables of contents are posted as a PDF file.)
Click here for the
table of
contents.