• Title IV, Part A

    The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA).  ESSA reflects the civil rights tradition of ESEA, which reflects our nation’s longstanding commitment to equity of opportunity for all students. The new law has a clear goal of ensuring that our education system prepares every child to graduate from high school ready to thrive in college and careers. The ESEA includes a number of provisions that promote equitable access to educational opportunity, including holding all students to high academic standards, ensuring meaningful action is taken to improve the lowest-performing schools and schools with underperforming student groups and providing more children with access to high-quality preschool.

    The federally funded program is authorized under Subpart 1 of Title IV, Part A of the ESEA, the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) program is intended to help meet these goals by increasing the capacity of State educational agencies (SEAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), schools and local communities to:

    1. Provide students with access to a well-rounded education,
    2. Improve safe and healthy school conditions for student learning, and
    3. Improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students.  (ESEA section 4101).

    Target Population(s)

    Students attending Florida schools:

    • That are among those with the greatest needs as determined by the LEA, (for private schools, this includes students identified as your students who are in the bottom quartile of achievement in ELA, reading, and math; minority students; and to increase student achievement consistent with standards used in your setting)
    • That have the highest numbers of students from low-income families,
    • That are identified for comprehensive support and improvements plans (includes “D” and “F” schools), or
    • That are identified as persistently dangerous public schools.

    Target schools must be listed on the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) available at .

    Through Title IV, Part A funding, applicants will provide activities to students that address these three areas:

    1. Well-rounded education
    2. Safe and healthy school conditions for student learning
    3. The effective use of technology and digital literacy of all students.

    For access to the grant award or plans for charter schools or private schools, please email federalprogams@duvalschools.org