Title I/LAP

Title I, Part A is a federal program designed “To provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high-quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps."

Title I, Part A: Closing Educational Achievement Gaps is a federal program designed to provide customized instruction and curricula that helps students meet academic standards. As the oldest and largest federal education program, Title I, Part A programs build opportunities for children whose struggles often keep them on the academic sidelines. One-third of the public schools in Washington state operate Title I, Part A programs, providing academic services to over 350 thousand students annually.

The Learning Assistance Program (LAP) provides supplemental instruction and services to students who are not meeting academic standards in basic skills areas (reading, writing, and mathematics as well as readiness associated with these skills) as identified by statewide, school, or district assessments or other performance measurement tools.

LAP is a state-funded program designed to enhance educational opportunities for students who are not yet meeting academic standards through supplemental academic and nonacademic services. Within Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), LAP services are targeted (tier 2) or intensive (tier 3) supports that are added to accelerate learning and remove barriers that prevent students from benefiting fully from universal instruction. These supplemental supports are most effective when they are matched to need, evidence-based, aligned with universal instruction, and implemented with fidelity.

Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a framework for enhancing the adoption and implementation of a continuum of evidence-based practices to achieve important outcomes for every student.

The MTSS framework builds on a public health approach that is preventative and focuses on organizing the efforts of adults within systems to be more efficient and effective. MTSS helps to ensure students benefit from nurturing environments and equitable access to universal instruction and supports that are culturally and linguistically responsive, universally designed, and differentiated to meet their unique needs.

In all of our identified schools, we are implementing multi-tiered systems of support to provide the appropriate interventions for our students. Equity-based MTSS is a complex schooling structure that brings together educator knowledge of context, science, and systems, resulting in positive benefits for all students, specifically historically underserved and marginalized students. It is an organizing framework that uses specific data sources to inform decisions coordinating diverse cultural, academic, behavioral, multilingual, and social resources to meet the needs of each and every student in a dynamic and timely fashion.

In rank order by free & reduced percentage:

• Firgrove
• Wildwood
• Stewart
• Karshner
• Waller Road
• Zeiger
• Sunrise
• Ridgecrest
• Carson
• Meeker
• Woodland
• Hunt
• Pope
• Spinning
• Dessie Evans
• Northwood
• Brouillet
• Mt. View

All 22 elementary schools and the following secondary schools:

• Aylen
• Ballou
• Edgemont
• Ferrucci
• Glacier View
• Kalles
• Stahl
• Emerald Ridge High School
• Puyallup High School
• Rogers High School
• Walker High School