The Federal Programs Department overseas the administration of consolidated federal grants authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1964. These grants work within the District’s Multi-Tiered Systems of Support to promote the success of schools and students who face unique challenges to learning including economic disadvantages, homelessness, migratory lifestyles and learning English as a second language.
About the ESEA
The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) emphasizes equal access to education, sets high standards for academic performance, and demands a rigorous level of accountability from schools and districts. ESEA authorizes an important group of education programs administered by the states. These programs provide supplemental support to eligible schools and districts to raise the academic achievement of struggling learners and address the complex challenges that arise among students who live with disability, mobility problems, learning difficulties, poverty, transience and the need to learn a second language.
Title I-A Improving Education for the Disadvantaged & Struggling Students
Title I-C Migrant Students Educational Support
Title II-A Teacher and Principal Quality and Support
The goal of the Migrant Education Program is to ensure that all migrant students reach challenging academic standards and graduate with a high school diploma (or complete a GED) that prepares them for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment.
Section 1306(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides supplemental funds to be used to meet the identified needs of migratory children that result from their migratory lifestyle, and to permit these children to participate effectively in school.
Alaska’s Migrant Education Program is guided by the statewide Comprehensive Needs Assessment (CNA) and the state Service Delivery Plan (SDP) that identifies the measurable program objectives and the instructional strategies designed to meet the needs identified in the CNA.
Migratory Child - The term "migratory child" means a child or youth who made a qualifying move in the preceding 36 months:
Migratory Agricultural Worker/Migratory Fisher - The terms "migratory agricultural worker" and "migratory fisher" mean an individual who made a qualifying move in the preceding 36 months and, after doing so, engaged in new temporary or seasonal employment or personal subsistence in agriculture or fishing soon after the move. If the individual did not engage in such new employment soon after the move, the individual must have actively sought such new employment, and have a recent history of moves for temporary or seasonal employment in agriculture or fishing.
Qualifying Move - The term "qualifying move" means a move due to economic necessity:
from one residence to another residence; and
from one school district to another school district, except
in the case of a State that is comprised of a single school district, wherein a qualifying move is from one administrative area to another within such district; or
in the case of a school district of more than 15,000 square miles, wherein a qualifying move is a distance of 20 miles or more to a temporary residence.
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The 1972 Indian Education Act was the landmark legislation establishing a comprehensive approach to meeting the unique needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students. The unique aspects of the original authority have been retained through subsequent legislative reauthorizing statutes, with the latest revision occurring with the amendments made by the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which reauthorized the program as Title VII Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Indian Education legislation is unique in the following ways:
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Title VI: Indian Education Grant
The District will provide an opportunity for the Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope (ICAS), the Federal Recognized Regional Tribal Government, and parents of Indian (Alaska Native/Iñupiaq) children to provide their views on the District's educational program and activities, including recommendations on the needs of their children and on how the District may help those children realize the benefits of the educational programs and activities.
In order to meet State and Federal requirements, the NSBSD established the Indian Education Committee (IEC), formally known as Federal Parent Advisory Committee (FPPAC), to comply with the rules and regulations of the State of Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, the US Department of Education, and the Department of Interior as they relate to grant-in-aid programs and projects. The IEC members serve their communities and ensure grant-funded projects meet the educational and cultural needs of Alaska Native/American Indian students.
The Indian Education Committee shall work with staff and community members associated with the public schools of NSBSD to provide advice and assistance in all aspects of developing proposals for grant-in-aid supplemental funding; review the planning, implementation, and evaluation of grant-in-aid supplemental funding; and advise the NSBSD School Board on application submission and program evaluation.
The Indian Education Committee shall work to assess needs, and establish priorities to meet the special educational needs of children in school or children eligible to attend school. They shall assist the School District in identifying and or verifying the students to be served by the program or project.
The IEC shall act as a hearing board for any individual or group who may wish to propose additions or changes in programs or projects, or to express grievances which will be properly referred to appropriate level as established by the NSBSD.
The NSBSD Grant Director and Business Office will provide monthly or bi-monthly updates during scheduled NSBSD School Board meetings as part of the Administrative Report for public feedback. Updates presented to the Board can be accessed by the public through the live KBRW radio broadcast. NSBSD will post a list of committee members and Minutes from the Indian Education Committee meetings on the NSBSD website.
NSBSD Indian Education Committee consists of at least 8 parent representatives and one alternate per village, one teacher and one high school student for a total of at least 10 representatives. They serve on a 3-year cycle and may be re-elected. School Advisory Council members within each village hosts an election at their regular meeting in September to elect IEC parent members and alternates. SAC members will elect a high school student representative and a teacher representative each year on a rotational basis FY20 Point Lay; FY21 Kaktovik; FY22 Wainwright; FY23 Pt. Hope; FY24 Atqasuk; FY25 Nuiqsut; FY26 Anaktuvuk Pass; FY27 Utqiagvik.
QUESTIONS? Please contact: Director of Student Services: 907-852-9651