Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Home Page

Overview

Supplemental Educational Services (SES) are tutoring programs designed to improve the academic performance of students in Title I schools that have not met state targets for increasing student achievement. The SES law was created when the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the major program of federal aid for public schools, was enacted in 2001. NCLB included new provisions regarding accountability for student achievement that required states to identify academic improvement goals, described as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), for all schools to meet. Schools receiving Title I aid that fail to attain the goals three or more consecutive years are required to offer families of low-income students in the identified schools the opportunity to enroll their students in SES tutoring.

The goal of supplemental educational services is to ensure that more students achieve proficiency on the state's academic standards in reading and math. Services may include such assistance as tutoring, remediation, and academic intervention and must take place outside the regular school day. Eligible children are from low-income families, as determined by the school district, for the purpose of allocating funds under Title I. Priority must be given to the lowest-achieving children whenever funds are insufficient to meet the requests of all eligible children and their parents.

The federal law for SES programs can be found in Section 1116(e) of Title I of the NCLB act.

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General Information

Schools Offering SES - A list of Wisconsin schools required to offer Supplemental Educational Services is available at: http://dpi.wi.gov/esea/doc/ses_eligible07-08.doc

Approved SES Providers - A list of organizations approved to provide Supplemental Educational Services in Wisconsin is available at: http://www2.dpi.state.wi.us/ESEA_SES/ProvSearch.asp

SES/Choice Bulletin - A publication from the DPI providing information about Supplemental Educational Services and Public School Choice is available at http://dpi.wi.gov/esea/pdf/bul_0207.pdf

For questions about this information, contact Elizabeth McClure (608) 261-6324

Last updated on 6/10/2008 2:16:20 PM