Schoolwide programs address the educational needs of children living in impoverished communities with comprehensive strategies for improving the whole school so every student achieves high levels of academic proficiency. Schoolwide programs have great latitude to determine how to organize their operations and allocate the multiple funding sources available to them. They do not have to identify particular children as eligible for services or separately track Federal dollars. Instead, schoolwide programs can use all allocated funds to increase the amount and quality of learning time.

For additional information about schoolwide programs see:

• Designing Schoolwide Programs Non-Regulatory Guidance (March 2006)
• Notice Authorizing Schoolwide Programs to Consolidate Federal Education Funds and Exempting Them from Complying with Statutory or Regulatory Provisions of Those Programs (July 2, 2004)
• Legislation: Title I, Part A, Section 1114, Schoolwide Programs

• Guidance on Schoolwide Programs
• Profiles of Successful Schoolwide Programs, December 1998
• Re-energizing Schoolwide Programs, Speech at the Title I Conference
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• Implementing Schoolwide Programs An Idea Book on Planning (October 1998)