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2022-2023 Title I, Part A Within-LEA Allocations
As LEAs begin the processes associated with determining Title I, Part A campus eligibility and allocation of funds to campuses for the 2022-2023 grant year, we wanted to share some newly released U.S. Department of Education (USDE) resources.
USDE Title I, Part A Non-Regulatory Guidance
On February 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education released final non-regulatory guidance on within-LEA allocations under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). The guidance is available at https://oese.ed.gov/files/2022/02/Within-district-allocations-FINAL.pdf. A primary purpose of this document is to enable users to access information on within-LEA Title I, Part A allocations in a single document rather than in multiple documents.
In addition to the direct link above, the document, along with a short summary of the public comments received by the USDE on this document, can be found on the Department's Title I, Part A resources page: https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-formula-grants/school-support-and-accountability/title-i-part-a-program/resources/.
USDE Flexibility for 2022-2023 Fact Sheet
On January 12, 2022, the USDE released an updated fact sheet regarding waivers granted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the school meal programs through June 30, 2022, and its impact on certain State-administered programs under the ESEA. This version replaces the fact sheet that the Department released on January 4, 2021, which covered USDA waivers for the school meal programs through June 30, 2021. The fact sheet is available at https://oese.ed.gov/files/2022/01/ED-USDA-Fact-Sheet-Revised-1-12-2022.pdf.
The following information noted in the Fact Sheet relates to the Title I, Part A Within-LEA Allocations process for 2022-2023.
The ESEA requires an LEA to rank all of its schools according to each school’s percentage of public school students from low-income families in order to
- Identify eligible school attendance areas and schools;
- Rank areas and schools; and
- Determine the allocation for each area and school.
To determine the number of public school students from low-income families, the ESEA provides an LEA with the option of using the number of children:
- Eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL) under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP);
- In families receiving assistance under the State program funded under Title IV, Part A of the Social Security Act (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF);
- Eligible to receive medical assistance under the Medicaid program; or
- Counted by the LEA using a composite of any of the above measures.
The ESEA also permits an LEA to use poverty data from schools that feed into secondary schools to determine the number of students from low-income families in those schools.
To the extent that NSLP data from SY 2020-2021 and SY 2021-2022 are not available, options available to an LEA for its within-LEA allocations in SY 2021-2022 and SY 2022-2023 include using:
- Medicaid or TANF data or a composite of data from these two sources from SY 2020-2021 for SY 2021-2022 within-LEA allocations or from SY 2021-2022 for SY 2022-2023 within-LEA allocations;
- The best available NSLP data, which may be from SY 2019-2020;
- NSLP data from SY 2020-2021 or SY 2021-2022 that may be accessible (e.g., counts of children identified through direct certification, which may be adjusted by 1.6 for within-LEA allocations to account for the lack of household applications);
- A combination of the best available NSLP data from SYs 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022;
- A composite of the NSLP, Medicaid, and TANF data listed in the previous bullets; or
- Data from a poverty survey conducted by the SEA or LEA that replicate NSLP, Medicaid, or TANF data.
Title I, Part A Within-LEA Allocations Resources
The following TEA developed resources are also available.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or if you need additional information, please email ESSASupport@TEA.Texas.gov or reach out to your regional Education Service Center's Title I, Part A program contact.
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