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Funding
Below are descriptions of how the Positive Action program (PA) meets all of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act for these listed programs. Each of the descriptions links to documents with further details on how Positive Action meets the requirements of that particular funding stream.
U.S. Department of Education No Child Left Behind Act
View the Table of Contents of the federal legislation for No Child Left Behind Act to learn more about these specific funding streams.
Title I: Targeted, Schoolwide, School Improvement, and Supplemental Education Services
PA helps schools meet the requirements for Targeted Assistance, School-wide, and School Improvement. It does so by improving the academics and behavior of all students. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse distinguished PA as the only character education program in the country to achieve the highest possible rating in both academics and behavior.
Additionally, PA also involves parents in the education of their children, a Title I requirement that strengthens schools and families. The Supplemental Education Services (SES) allow parents to provide struggling children in low performing schools with additional academic assistance. PA can be used as an SES program for tutoring and mentoring. SES also supports the early intervention of borderline students from special education programs. PA works at an early age to bring these students up to the appropriate academic level.
Lastly, PA increases attendance, leading to improved academic performance. Click here for more information on how PA works for Title I, and how PA helps minority and impoverished students succeed.
Title II: Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High-Quality Teachers and Principals
PA helps schools recruit and train high-quality teachers and principals through site-wide implementation and reinforcement of positive behaviors. Principals and teachers model these behaviors for students, ensuring they are using the positive behaviors of respect, empathy, self-responsibility, self-honesty, and continually improving yourself. A school full of teachers, administration, staff, and students practicing positive behaviors also attracts high-quality recruits.
The National Principal’s Resource Center (NPRC), a resource division of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), has partnered with PA to offer all elementary and secondary principals PA materials. Read about how PA helps principals meet Standards 3 and 4 from NAESP.
Title III: Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and
Immigrant Students
PA helps second language learners by improving their academics and showing them how to integrate into the culture. Spanish translations of manuals and materials in many grades help to ease the transition. Studies show minority and poverty students actually improve more with PA than regular students.
Title IV: Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
PA works for the prevention of violence and alcohol, tobacco, and drug use by teaching positive actions that create a safe and cooperative environment. This, in turn, increases attendance, and contributes to improving academics and attendance.
Character Education
PA teaches the physical, intellectual, social and emotional positive action to accomplish and value achievement, good behavior and good character. The program teaches intrinsic motivation, by teaching that you feel good about yourself when you do a positive action. It suggests that Character to Education the way Positive Action teaches it is a precondition to improving academics and behavior. The U.S. Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse gave PA top ratings. They distinguished PA as the only character education program in the nation to achieve the highest possible rating in both academics and behavior.
21st Century Community Learning Centers
PA improves academics and behavior not only in schools, but also in community learning centers, mentoring programs, and before- and after-school programs. It works for all students, especially high-risk ones, to improve academic scores, nutrition, health, and homework completion. Using the program decreases substance use, violence, bullying, absenteeism, and discipline problems. It involves parents and improves family literacy.
Title V: Promoting Informed Parental Choice and Innovative Programs
PA is an innovative program and it can help to meet the need to provide informed parental choice. It’s ideal for at-risk youth and improving school, student, and teacher performance. Research shows that PA helps minority and poverty students improve at a faster rate than regular students.
Special Education: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
PA helps schools succeed by improving the academics and behavior of all students, diverting potential and borderline students from special education classrooms, and helping special education students integrate into mainstream classrooms. PA meets IDEA requirements and helps low-performing students improve faster, closing the gap between them and their mainstream counterparts.
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Formula Funding Opportunities
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