Mr. Harmon, our Professional Development School Compliance Coach , is in his 18th year of education with Memphis City Schools. He is a native Memphian who attended Overton High School. He attended Memphis College of Art and Rhodes College. Mr. Harmon has always taken an active role in striving to make all students succeed. He is also the School Leadership chairperson. Mr. Harmon extends a warm and sincere welcome to all RMS stakeholders.

What is Title I?

Title I (Part A) is the largest federal program in K-12 education, funded at more than $11 billion in the

2003-2004 school year. In the 1998-1999 school year, the most recent year for which data has been released, 13,081 districts and 46,656 schools received Title I funds. Several smaller programs, including literacy programs and migrant education, are grouped under the Title I umbrella in terms of how the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is structured, and there are administrative ties between

the programs in most states and districts. The main Title I program, the program that is generally thoughtof as "Title I," is Part A, which sends money to school districts based on Census counts of children from

low-income families and children from smaller categories, such as foster children and those living in correctional institutions. The money is intended to improve the quality of education in high-poverty schools and /or give extra help to struggling students.

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