 THE JENNINGS COUNTY EARLY LEARNING CENTER (ELC) provides quality education for developmentally delayed preschoolers between the ages of 3-5 years old and approximately 120 kindergarten students. The staff of the ELC strives to engage students in a language rich environment by inventing, creating and designing a variety of learning experiences for the students and their extended family members.
Parents of kindergarten students may choose to have their child attend alternating day kindergarten classes or students may attend extended day kindergarten classes.
Jennings County School Corporation (JCSC) is committed to early intervention for our primary students; therefore; JCSC provides free extended day kindergarten for at-risk students through monies from the following grants: Indiana Kindergarten Grant, Title I, Title II Class Size Reduction Grant and Remediation. |
 THE ELC IS A TITLE I SCHOOL
What is a Title I School? That is a Great Question! When most people refer to Title I, they are actually talking about Title I, Part A of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Part A, Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged Program, is one of the most well known parts of federal education law. Title I funds are targeted to high-poverty schools and districts and used to provide educational services to students who are educationally disadvantaged or at risk of failing to meet state standards. (A high-poverty school is designated on the number of families who qualify for free and/or reduced lunches.) The Title I program is designed to accomplish four primary goals: provide supplementary education to students eligible for services; provide additional funding to schools and districts serving high concentrations of children from low-income families; focus educators on the needs of special student populations; and improve the academic achievement of eligible students, reduce performance gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students, and assist eligible students in meeting high academic standards (Riddle, 1996). Schools in which poor children make up at least 40 percent |