Supplemental Services under ESEA:

ESEA outlines new requirements for offering students supplemental services when schools are in their second year of school improvement or corrective action. The law identifies low-performing students from low-income families as the recipients of supplemental services – academic tutoring, remediation, and other education "interventions."

Supplemental services are selected by the parents of the children needing them from a list provided by the district. The services must be offered outside the school day, and be high quality; research-based; and specifically designed to improve student achievement. The instructional approaches used by the supplemental services providers must be consistent with the content and instruction of the school and district, and aligned with the state's academic content standards.

The main purpose of providing the additional services outside of school (after school and on weekends) are to help students improve their academic achievement in reading and math, measured by the state assessments, and help these students achieve the state standards.

States are required to identify organizations, both public and private, that qualify to provide supplemental services under ESEA criteria. States must also maintain and disseminate a list of supplemental services providers, and they must monitor the providers' services.

CDE issued a request for proposals (RFP) to create the 2002-03 list of supplemental services providers and will maintain the approved providers list with information about the specific districts in which they will provide services. Under ESEA, CDE must actively encourage participation by providers to guarantee that parents have as many choices as possible.

The CDE-approved list will be updated annually and each year there will be an opportunity for providers to demonstrate that they meet the federal law's requirements. Providers can also be removed by CDE from the list each year.

School districts have several responsibilities under the Supplemental Services provisions of ESEA:

1. Identify the approved providers who have agreed under state rules to provide the services for district students;
2. Notify the parents of eligible children in eligible schools of the services and how to access them;
3. Assist parents in accessing the supplemental services providers and getting started on a plan for their children;
4. Pay for the supplemental services from Title I funds.

Other ESEA Supplemental Services Links

One-page backgrounder on Supplemental Services

U.S. Department of Education Information on Supplemental Services

NEA information on supplemental services