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Title 1: Where it All Began
ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION.
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Title I — Improving The Academic Achievement Of The Disadvantaged
SEC. 101. IMPROVING THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED.
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Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is amended to read as follows:
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TITLE I--IMPROVING THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED
SEC. 1001. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
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The purpose of this title is to ensure that all
children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a
high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on
challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic
assessments. This purpose can be accomplished by —
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(1) ensuring that high-quality academic
assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and
training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with
challenging State academic standards so that students, teachers,
parents, and administrators can measure progress against common
expectations for student academic achievement;
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(2) meeting the educational needs of
low-achieving children in our Nation's highest-poverty schools,
limited English proficient children, migratory children, children
with disabilities, Indian children, neglected or delinquent
children, and young children in need of reading assistance;
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(3) closing the achievement gap between high-
and low-performing children, especially the achievement gaps
between minority and nonminority students, and between
disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers;
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(4) holding schools, local educational
agencies, and States accountable for improving the academic
achievement of all students, and identifying and turning around
low-performing schools that have failed to provide a high-quality
education to their students, while providing alternatives to
students in such schools to enable the students to receive a
high-quality education;
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(5) distributing and targeting resources
sufficiently to make a difference to local educational agencies
and schools where needs are greatest;
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(6) improving and strengthening
accountability, teaching, and learning by using State assessment
systems designed to ensure that students are meeting challenging
State academic achievement and content standards and increasing
achievement overall, but especially for the disadvantaged;
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(7) providing greater decisionmaking
authority and flexibility to schools and teachers in exchange for
greater responsibility for student performance;
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(8) providing children an enriched and
accelerated educational program, including the use of schoolwide
programs or additional services that increase the amount and
quality of instructional time;
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(9) promoting schoolwide reform and ensuring
the access of children to effective, scientifically based
instructional strategies and challenging academic content;
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(10) significantly elevating the quality of
instruction by providing staff in participating schools with
substantial opportunities for professional development;
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(11) coordinating services under all parts of
this title with each other, with other educational services, and,
to the extent feasible, with other agencies providing services to
youth, children, and families; and
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(12) affording parents substantial and meaningful opportunities to participate in the education of their children.