Series 6000: Instruction

6161.3 Comparability of Services

The Superintendent or his/her designee shall pursue funding under Title I of the Federal Strengthening and Improving of Elementary and Secondary Schools Act to supplement instructional services and activities in order to improve the educational opportunities of educationally disadvantaged or deprived children.

All District schools, regardless of whether they receive Title I funds, shall provide services that, taken as a whole, are substantially comparable. Teachers, administrators and other staff shall be assigned to schools in a manner that ensures equivalency among the District’s schools. Curriculum materials and instructional supplies shall be provided in a manner that ensures equivalency among the District’s schools.

The Board of Education believes that at all times its schools should be equally as well equipped and maintained as may be possible within existing financial limitations.

It shall be the policy of the Board of Education to insure comparability of services funded by state and local sources in both Title I project schools and non-project schools. the Board of Education will therefore:

1. Maintain a district-wide salary schedule.

2. Provide services with federal, state and local funds in schools serving Title I project areas that are at least comparable to services in non-project areas.

3. Use federal, state and local funds to provide for an equivalence among all schools in all schools with the same grade levels in teachers, administrators, auxiliary personnel.

4. Use federal, state and local funds to provide for an equivalence among all schools with the same grade levels in the provision of curriculum and instructional materials, books and supplies.

5. Nothing in this policy will prohibit the administration from addressing identified problems at individual schools. 

Legal Reference:   

Title I of the Strengthening and Improving of Elementary and Secondary Schools Act, 20 U.S.C.A. §6301-6514, as implemented by 34 C.F.R. parts 200, 201, 203, 205, and 212.

Agostini v. Felton 521 U.S. 103 (1997) 

Policy adopted: November 19, 2007 THOMASTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Thomaston, Connecticut