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Title I Part A provides federal dollars for supplemental educational opportunities for children who are most at risk of failing to meet the State's challenging content and performance standards. Title I gives districts the opportunity to create two types of school-based programs.

Typically, local, state and federal money flows to districts, which then use a formula to divvy up resources across their schools. A growing number of districts use a student-based allocation formula (or SBA) to distribute at least some portion of their total funds.

Title I, Part A federal funds help to meet the educational needs of students in California schools. Funds are used to support effective, evidence-based educational strategies that close the achievement gap and enable the students to meet the state's challenging academic standards.

As this analysis shows, Vermont, Wyoming and North Dakota received substantially more Title I money per eligible child in fiscal year 2017 than did other states. Vermont and Wyoming each received more than $3,000 per child compared with the national average of $1,489.

StateNumber of Title I eligible schools2Number of Title I schoolwide schoolsArkansas822429California5,1832,579Colorado784211Connecticut4398761 more rows

WHAT IS A TITLE I SCHOOL? Title I is a federal education program that supports low income students throughout the nation. Funds are distributed to high poverty schools, as determined by the number of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Schools in which children from low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment are eligible to use Title I funds to operate schoolwide programs that serve all children in the school in order to raise the achievement of the lowest-achieving students.

A federal program that increases student academic achievement through strategies such as improving teacher and principal quality.