Federal Programs & Grants

Program Purpose

Title I, Part A (Title I) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA) provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards. Federal funds are currently allocated through four statutory formulas that are based primarily on census poverty estimates and the cost of education in each state. 

Title I Consolidated Plan 2022-2023

Program Purpose

The purpose of Title II of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is to: • Increase student achievement consistent with the challenging state academic standards • Improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other school leaders • Increase the number of teachers, principals, and other school leaders who are effective in improving student academic achievement in schools • Provide low-income and minority students greater access to effective teachers, principals, and other school leaders.

Program Purpose

Title III is a part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA). The purpose of Title III is to help ensure that English learners (ELs) attain English language proficiency and meet state academic standards. Federal funding is provided through various grant programs to assist state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) in accomplishing this. Some funds are offered to entities other than SEAs and LEAs, and SEAs and LEAs also offer subgrants to other entities.

Program Purpose

The purpose of Title IV, Part A funds is to improve students’ academic achievement by increasing the capacity of states, local educational agencies (LEAs), schools, and local communities to:

• Provide all students with access to a well-rounded education;
• Improve school conditions for student learning; and
• Improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students.

Program Purpose

Funding allotted to the Education Stabilization Fund through the Coronavirus Aid Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). Signed into law on March 27, 2020, the Department awarded these grants ­to State educational agencies (SEAs) for the purpose of providing local educational agencies (LEAs), including charter schools that are LEAs, with emergency relief funds to address the impact that COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, on elementary and secondary schools across the Nation.

ESSER Fund awards to SEAs are in the same proportion as each State received funds under Part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, in fiscal year 2019.  Additional information can be found online at the Office of Elemtary & Secondary Education.

ECPPS Funding Plans

• ESSER I 
• ESSER II, PRC 173
• ESSER II, PRC 171
• ESSER II, PRC 174
• ESSER II, PRC 178
• ESSER III 
• ESSER III - Safe Return to Schools Plan

Please check back for ESSER plan updates.