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21st Century Learning Centers
The 21st Century Learning Centers Program provides opportunities for academic enrichment, including tutorial services to help students (particularly students in high-poverty areas and those who attend low-performing schools) meet state and local student performance standards in core academic subjects such as reading and mathematics.
Adequate Yearly Progress
Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically according to results on standardized tests.
Advanced Placement
The Advanced Placement (AP) program allows students to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school. Students may earn college credit and/or advanced placement into upper-level college courses by taking AP exams. Many colleges and universities recognize AP courses when making admissions decisions.
Alternative Education
The alternative education program assists school districts and other program sponsors in providing quality alternative education options for students that are consistent with the state’s learning goals, and that promote student achievement in non-traditional learning environments.
Audit Management and Resolution
Audit Management and Resolution resolves audit findings and exceptions presented in audit reports, management letters, and audit memorandums issued by the State Auditor’s Office (SAO) and Independent Certified Public Accountants (CPA).
Building Bridges (Dropout Prevention)
Building Bridges grants serve at-risk middle and high school students. Targeted student populations include youth in foster care, the juvenile justice system, special education and youth who have dropped out of school.
Career and Technical Education (CTE)
Career and Technical Education is a planned program of courses and learning experiences. CTE career options, supports basic academic and life skills, and enables achievement of high academic standards, leadership, preparation for industry-defined work, and advanced and continuing education.
Center for the Improvement of Student Learning (CISL)
CISL serves as a clearinghouse for educational research and resource, including strategies on addressing the academic achievement gap and materials for parents in multiple languages.
Child Nutrition
Child Nutrition assists school districts and other program sponsors in providing quality nutrition programs that promote life-long healthful living while providing nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning.
Compassionate Schools
The Compassionate Schools initiative provides guidance, referral, and technical assistance to schools interested in creating compassionate classrooms in the school and compassionate attitudes of their educational staff.
Computers 4 Kids
The C4K Program makes it possible to distribute state computers identified for surplus to needy public schools across Washington.
Consolidated Program Review
Reviews of federally funded programs fulfill OSPI’s sub-recipient monitoring requirements under federal regulations and provide the opportunity for dialogue and technical assistance between district program managers and their counterparts at OSPI.
Coordinated School Health
Centers for Disease Control as a Coordinated School Health Infrastructure State, this program provides staff and resources dedicated to ensuring that coordination and collaboration occurs at the highest level for the greatest impact.
Digital Learning Department
The Digital Learning Department (DLD) is a resource for educators, students, and parents with access to online courses, resources and digital tools for learning.
District and School Improvement and Accountability (DSIA)
DSIA offers a framework of differentiated services that assists districts and schools
Early Learning and School Readiness
Coordination of multiple early learning activities to assist school districts, in collaboration with their communities, preschools, childcare providers, and families, prepare children from all backgrounds from birth to eight years old to be successful learners.
Education Awards
OSPI administers several award programs for educators, schools, districts and classified staff, including Washington State Teacher of the Year.
Education Centers
Education Centers provide an alternative educational opportunity to students who have dropped out, been expelled or been referred by a public school. The centers, which receive approval from the State Board of Education, are devoted to basic skills instruction and have a mission to help students return to school, pass the GED or find employment.
Educational Technology
Educational Technology promotes and supports the integration of technology into teaching and learning through professional development programming, policy development, the administration of state and federal funding, strategic planning and oversight of the K-20 Educational Network.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
OSPI oversees several programs that fall under the ESEA (also known as No Child Left Behind Act): Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV, Title VI, Title VII and Title X.
Equity and Civil Rights
The equity education program provides technical assistance to district officials to help them better understand and implement state and federal equity laws, and monitor their activities for compliance with those laws.
Even Start/Family Literacy
Even Start Family Literacy is an educational program for the nation’s low-income families designed to improve the academic achievement of parents and their young children, especially in the area of reading.
Facilities (School Facilities)
School Facilities is responsible for administering the K-12 Capital Budget, School Construction Assistance Program, and support for local school district construction projects. The section also oversees School District Organization and other K-12 school facilities related programs.
Foster Care Youth
Foster Care Youth provides information to students, educators, foster parents, and social workers to better understand and provide guidance about the unique circumstances surrounding these students who live in foster care and attend public schools.
Highly Capable
The Highly Capable Program (HCP) provides funding to school districts to institute educational opportunities that address the academic needs of highly capable learners.
Health Services
The Health Services Program provides consultation to school administrators, staff and school nurses regarding health and safety of students and provisions of nursing care during the school day.
Home-Based Instruction
Washington state law recognizes the desire of some parents to seek a home-based education for their children. OSPI offers technical assistance to school districts that are working with parents seeking to exercise this educational right.
Homeless Education (McKinney-Vento)
The purpose of the McKinney-Vento Act is to provide educational services to homeless students that are equal to all other enrolled students, and ensure that homeless children and youth have equal opportunities to enroll in, attend, and be successful in school.
Institutional Education
Institutional Education assists school districts and other program sponsors in providing to youth in institutional settings the quality educational services that are consistent with the state’s learning goals, and that promote academic achievement in alternative learning environments.
Information Technology Services
IT supports OSPI's technological infrastructure and oversees data reporting.
K-20 Education Network
The K-20 Educational Network is a high-speed, high-capacity network that connects colleges, universities, K-12 school districts and libraries across Washington state.
Learn and Serve
Learn and Serve supports and encourages service-learning throughout the United States and enables over one million students to make meaningful contributions to their community while building their academic and civic skills.
Learning Assistance Program (LAP)
The Learning Assistance Program is Washington's state-funded program that provides additional academic support to eligible students.
Mathematics and Science Partnerships
The purpose of the Washington MSP Program is to improve the content knowledge of mathematics and/or science teachers in order to increase the achievement of their students.
Mental Health and Schools
Access to public mental health services for students who are in need of them has been challenging for parents and educators. Through a contract with Washington State University, efforts are underway across the state to improve and enhance school and mental health treatment coordination.
Migrant & Bilingual Education
Title I Migrant Education Program supports the unique educational and health needs of migrant students by enhancing their opportunities for personal success and advocating for quality services that promote responsible and productive individuals.
Operation Military Kids
Operation Military Kids aims to create replicable and sustainable support networks for geographically dispersed military youth in schools and communities before, during, and after the deployment of a parent or loved one.
Paraeducators
Paraeducators are important members of the learning and teaching team. They ensure that students receive multiple levels of support in schools. Washington provides assistance for paraeducators through the Recommended Core Competencies and the Paraeducator Guidelines.
Prevention/Intervention Services
The Student Assistance Prevention-Intervention Services Program (SAPISP) supports OSPI's mission to ensure the success of all learners through safe, civil, health, and engaging learning environments.
Private Education
Private Education coordinates the approval of private schools as an education option for Washington students.
Professional Practices
Professional Practices provides information to school districts, parents, attorneys, the educational community, government agency and the general public in three specific areas: investigations, fingerprint records and administrative resource services.
Readiness to Learn
The Readiness to Learn program awards grants to local school/community partnerships that work to ensure children who experience life challenges arrive at school every day “ready to learn.”
Reading First
The ultimate purpose of Title I, Part B of ESEA is to ensure that all children read at grade level in English by the end of third grade.
Response to Intervention (RTI)
RTI is a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems.
Running Start
Through the Running Start program, students are allowed to attend certain institutions of higher education while in high school, and simultaneously earn high school and college/university credit.
Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) Flexibility
REAP is designed to address the unique needs of rural school districts that lack personnel and resources needed to compete for federal competitive grants, and that often receive formula allocation that are too small to be used effectively for their intended purposes.
Safe and Drug-Free Schools
The Safe and Drug Free Schools program centers on improving school safety. Among other tasks, the program provides an annual report to the
legislature on the number of incidents involving weapons that occur in Washington schools.
School Safety Center
The Washington State School Safety Center provides guidance, technical assistance, and resources relative to keeping students and staff safe in our schools.
Special Education
Special Education and related services are provided annually to 124,000 students in Washington. Services include data management, compliance program review, and compliance dispute resolution.
Teacher and Principal Quality
Teacher and Principal Quality aims to increase the academic achievement of all students by helping schools and districts improve teacher and principal quality and to ensure that all teachers are highly qualified.
Title I, Part A
Title I, Part A is a formula grants program for "improving the academic achievement of the disadvantaged." It is a federal program that provides financial assistance to local educational agencies and public schools with high numbers or high percentages of poor children to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards.
Traffic Safety
The goal of the Traffic Safety Education office is to ensure public school Traffic Safety Education programs provide students with the skills and instruction necessary to build a lifetime of good driving habits.
Transportation (Student/Pupil)
The Transportation office (also called Student Transportation or Pupil Transportation) provides essential services in support of student transportation in Washington state.
Truancy/Becca Bill
Truancy provides assistance to school districts in the implementation and interpretation of truancy provisions in the compulsory school attendance regulations.
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