Title I funding Needs for Jackson Students at Nonpublic Schools
The purpose of Title I of the ESEA is to provide all children significant opportunity to receive a
fair, equitable, and high-quality education and to close educational achievement gaps. (ESEA
section 1001). Each LEA that receives Title I funds identifies public school attendance areas and
schools that have high concentrations of children from low-income families as eligible to participate
in Title I programs. (ESEA section 1113).
ESEA section 1117 requires participating LEAs, in consultation with appropriate private school
officials, to provide eligible children attending private non-profit elementary and secondary schools,
their teachers, and their families with Title I services or other benefits that are equitable to those
provided to eligible public school children, their teachers, and their families. Eligible private school
children are children who reside in a participating Title I public school attendance area and are low
achieving