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Title IV, Part A - Capacity Building Initiative

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Safe & Healthy Students

Foster safe, healthy, and drug-free environments that support student achievement. Promote the involvement of parents. Provide drug and violence prevention activities, including educator professional development and student mental health activities. The intent and purpose of T4PA is to provide funds for student physical and mental health rather than just focusing on facility security.

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A local or state mandate requiring schools to provide these services would raise the presumption that use of these funds would violate the Supplement, not Supplant requirement and thus would not be allowable.  – US Dept. of Education (3/2023)
 

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Examples of Title IV, Part A activities include:

  • Integrate health and safety practices into school/athletic programs

  • Support a healthy and active lifestyle

  • Prevent bullying and harassment

  • Reduce exclusionary discipline practices

  • Mental health activities

  • Drug and violence prevention

  • Counseling services

  • Trauma-informed classroom management

  • Chronic disease management

  • Mentoring to include at-risk students, drug use, and abuse

  • Substance use and abuse recovery and support services

  • Establish or improve school dropout and reentry programs

  • Community/parent engagement and learning opportunities to teach and support integrated student mental health, wellbeing, and academic success

  • Telemedicine and tele-mental health therapy and services

  • Provide students in rural, remote, and underserved areas with the resources to take advantage of high-quality digital learning experiences, resources, and access to online courses and services

  • Schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports

State Requirements with Potential Supplant Implications

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State requirements in this content area have been provided so that LEAs know what the mandate is that they must meet, in order to determine how they choose to go above and beyond with their T4PA funds.

 

Many of the program examples (listed above) are all or partly state-mandated. To progress with using T4PA funds, an LEA must: 

  1. Document how they met the state requirement with state or local funds. 

  2. Use T4PA funds to supplement the mandate or requirement by expanding, adding to, or enhancing the original mandate.  

TEA Required Curriculum

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) webpage outlines state-mandated curriculum standards, highlighting Health Education and Physical Education as part of the state's "Required Enrichment Curriculum," alongside links for School Health and School Guidance and Counseling.

Because Texas law explicitly mandates that school districts provide instruction and support in these areas, using federal Title IV, Part A "Safe and Healthy Students" funds to cover baseline, state-required health or counseling services would create a supplanting issue. Consequently, districts must ensure Title IV, Part A funds are used exclusively to supplement, expand, or enhance existing health, mental health, and safety initiatives beyond what state law already requires.

 

TEA Subject Areas webpage