Title I
The largest federal K-12 funding programme, giving extra money to schools and districts with high numbers of children from low-income families.
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- Funding
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Related terms
- ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) United States
- The main federal law for K-12 education, passed in 2015 to replace No Child Left Behind, requiring annual testing in some grades and state-designed accountability systems.
- Free and reduced-price lunch (FRL / FRPL) United States
- Free or low-cost school meals for children from low-income families under the National School Lunch Program; often used as a measure of poverty in schools.
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