Title I  
Villa Grove Unit School District #302

Title I is a federally funded program designed to provide supplemental assistance to at-risk students. The purpose of this program is to give the boost needed in a child's learning.  Title I is not meant to be a lifelong source of support for a student.  The Title I program may be administered as schoolwide or targeted assistance.

The government determines how a program will be carried out within each qualifying school.  For a school to be schoolwide it must have a very high percentage of free and reduced lunch students.  In a schoolwide program every student in the school is considered a Title I student as are the teachers.  The students receive instruction at their personal level of achievement with the goal being to bring each student up to grade level.

Since our school has a relatively low number of free and reduced lunch students, we are a targeted assistance school and receive a smaller amount of federal funding for our program.  We have determined that the students in grades K-4 have the greatest need for services in the area of reading.  I as the Villa Grove District Title I Teacher serve the classrooms of these students.