Title I program, with the strongest requirements for higher standards and accountability ever established for programs serving poor and disadvantaged students. Recent polling shows strong teacher support for standards-based programs with accountability. The bipartisan message in the House vote is heartening news for children and public education. In a stinging rebuff, a bipartisan majority rejected a voucher proposal funded by cutting school counselors and after-school programs.
Student achievement requires support and resources.
Title I serves 10.5 million children in more than half of U.S. schools. Federal funds support school programs to raise academic performance of poor and underachieving children. Title I was created in 1965 after debates over whether states were equally funding education in poor communities. There is a lot to like in the bill, but NEA will seek changes on some provisions as the legislative process moves forward. NEA opposed the original bill and the scaled back bill.