{"id":978,"date":"2015-04-02T18:43:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/?p=978"},"modified":"2015-04-23T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T14:22:02","slug":"is-the-city-spending-at-least-1-percent-of-its-federal-title-1-a-funds-on-parental-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/2015\/04\/is-the-city-spending-at-least-1-percent-of-its-federal-title-1-a-funds-on-parental-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the City Spending at Least 1 Percent of Its Federal Title 1-A Funds on Parental Involvement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Title I-A funds provide assistance to schools and local educational agencies (in New York City, the Department of Education) that serve a large number or share of students from low-income families. Under federal rules, school systems that receive at least $500,000 in Title I-A funds must use at least 1 percent of their annual allocation for activities that promote parental involvement. Title 1-A requires parental input into determining the activities provided as well as their implementation. Although schools also use additional sources to fund parental involvement, only Title 1-A requires that parents be involved in planning for the use of these funds.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In school year 2013-2014, 1,292 schools (nearly 79 percent) of the city\u2019s public schools received Title 1-A funds.<\/li>\n<li>Schools receiving Title I-A funds collectively spent $11.2 million on parental involvement activities in 2013-2014\u2014more than double the required minimum expenditure of $5.2 million for the Department of Education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nycbtn421.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-999 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nycbtn421.png\" alt=\"nycbtn421\" width=\"284\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The education department gives schools a targeted amount of 1 percent of their Title 1-A funds to spend on parental involvement in the department\u2019s school budget allocations.<\/li>\n<li>In school year 2013-2014, 10 percent of Title 1-A schools with parental involvement spending targets self-reported spending below the amount targeted and nearly 71 percent reported spending more than their assigned target amount.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nycbtn422.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1000 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nycbtn422.png\" alt=\"nycbtn422\" width=\"276\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nycbtn422.png 276w, https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/nycbtn422-275x300.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 70 percent of schools receiving Title I-A funds were targeted to spend between $1,000 and $5,000 for parental involvement.<\/li>\n<li>For schools spending in this range, the expected expenditure equaled about 0.1-0.2 percent of an average school budget.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of standardized reporting limits analysis by type of expenditure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Prepared by Liza Pappas &amp; Yolanda Smith<br \/>\n<em>New York City Independent Budget Office<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Print version available <a title=\"Print Version\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1BULTN0\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 16px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"488\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"319\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/\">New York City By The Numbers<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"319\">\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibo.nyc.ny.us\/\">IBO Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Title I-A funds provide assistance to schools and local educational agencies (in New York City, the Department of Education) that serve a large number or share of students from low-income families. Under federal rules, school systems that receive at least $500,000 in Title I-A funds must use at least 1 percent of their annual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/2015\/04\/is-the-city-spending-at-least-1-percent-of-its-federal-title-1-a-funds-on-parental-involvement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is the City Spending at Least 1 Percent of Its Federal Title 1-A Funds on Parental Involvement?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}