School Improvement

The purpose of the IPG is to carry out the State Educational Agency’s statewide system of technical assistance and support for Entities which have schools identified as schools in need of Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) under the State's federally approved plan for The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This competition provides additional fiscal resources, technical support, and regular school visits to improve student achievement and ultimately to assist these schools with exiting the federal identification and status of CSI.

IPG Eligibility

  • The IPG competition was open to any LEA that had at least one (1) Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) School.
  • The grant application was submitted by the LEA on behalf of each CSI School interested in competing (each CSI School had its own application).
  • 105 schools were identified as CSI schools in 2019; therefore 105 schools were eligible to compete for these discretionary funds
  • The LEA had to submit a Letter of Intent for any school for which it planned to submit an application.  (74 Intents were received)
  • Applications were only sent to those who met the deadline for submitting Letter of Intent.
https://www.dpi.nc.gov/districts-schools/federal-program-monitoring/school-improvement