Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Kansas · Schools & districts
High-impact tutoring for Kansas schools.
Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Connect Kansas’s literacy, math, and targeted intervention priorities with focused instruction, student discussion, and a plan your school can support.
A closer look at Kansas
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Kansas is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Structured literacy. Instruction connected to Kansas standards. Assessment that guides a timely response, with a clear plan for students who need additional support.
Official sources checked November 5, 2026
01Structured literacy. A focused response to reading risk.
Kansas’s emphasis
Kansas centers structured literacy within its Four Fundamentals. Current screening changes support earlier identification of reading risk. A single statewide screener and individual literacy plans for high-risk K–3 students begin in 2027–28 under KSDE’s implementation guidance.
The Cignition connection
Use your school’s screening and instructional information to identify the reading skill students need next. Discuss explicit foundational-skills instruction for younger learners and vocabulary, comprehension, and text-based reasoning as students progress. Your school leads its literacy plan; tutoring adds focused instruction within that broader approach.
02Grade-level learning. Assessment that informs instruction.
Kansas’s emphasis
Kansas’s Four Fundamentals connect structured literacy, standards alignment, a balanced assessment system, and quality instruction. The emphasis is on using evidence of student learning to adjust teaching while preserving access to grade-level content.
The Cignition connection
Start with a Kansas learning target and student work. Identify the prerequisite skill that supports current classroom learning, then use models, purposeful questions, and explanations to make student thinking visible. Review proposed math or ELA lessons alongside your school’s instructional sequence.
03At-risk support. Clear goals and a measurable plan.
Kansas’s emphasis
Kansas links state at-risk spending with evidence-based services and district accountability plans. Beginning in 2026–27, those plans connect spending rationale, student cohorts, and improvement goals. Identifying the students to serve is a local decision supported by educational evidence.
The Cignition connection
Agree on a focused learning goal, recurring schedule, and how your team will review participation and progress. Cignition can share instructional observations and program information. Your district determines eligibility, maintains required plans and reports, and confirms whether the proposed service is an approved use of funds.
Our curriculum. Your instructional goals.
From a learning target
to student thinking.
Start with the skill your students need next. Connect the learning goal, the task, and the explanation that shows how a student is thinking.
The Kansas connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Kansas’s emphasis on structured literacy and assessment-informed intervention provides context for reviewing this sample. Examine how a learner connects sounds and print, responds to prompts, and practices a foundational reading skill.
Compare the task and prerequisites with your classroom sequence and student work.
Explore a sample lesson
Elementary literacy
ELA · K–5 sample. Open the student lesson to examine the tasks for yourself.
Open the elementary literacy sample ↗
What should we look for?
Consider how a learner connects sounds and print, responds to prompts, and practices a foundational reading skill. Which responses would help your team decide what the student understands and what to teach next?
How would this connect with our curriculum?
Compare the learning goal, task, language, and prerequisites with your classroom materials. Your school’s learning sequence and the students’ starting points guide that discussion.
How should we use this example?
This grade-band sample illustrates selected instruction. It has not been customized for Kansas and is not a comprehensive state standards alignment. For a specific alignment question, share the standard and classroom materials with our team.
Inside a school partnership
A shared plan.
People to keep
it moving.
Cignition brings live virtual instruction, purpose-built lessons, a dedicated program manager, and participation and learning information. For example, a Kansas school could connect supplemental reading sessions with its structured-literacy sequence and the needs identified through screening. Your school provides protected time, technology, and local support. This is a planning illustration; service eligibility and the agreed scope shape any partnership.
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Turn the instructional need into a workable plan.
Your school team
Identify the students and reading or math goals, share classroom and screening information, and protect recurring time. Your team names an onsite contact and checks devices, connectivity, and the proposed use of school funds.
The Cignition team
Your program manager coordinates planning with your school. Cignition prepares tutor assignments, small groups, instructional materials, and launch arrangements around your Kansas school’s structured literacy and assessment-informed intervention.
Keep the session focused and students connected.
Your school team
Help students join on time, maintain a supervised learning space, and support participation or connection issues. Classroom teachers continue core instruction; tutoring provides additional targeted learning time.
The Cignition team
Experienced, carefully vetted tutors lead live virtual instruction using Cignition’s purpose-built curriculum, questions, models, and discussion. They respond to student work and record attendance, participation, and learning information.
Use the information. Keep the conversation going.
Your school team
Share classroom observations and school assessment context, review participation with your onsite contact, and identify questions about student learning or the routine.
The Cignition team
Your program manager shares participation and learning information and coordinates follow-up. Cignition’s instructional and implementation teams use that information with your school to consider grouping, learning targets, or scheduling adjustments.
Kansas funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Explore federal formula funds, Kansas state at-risk funding, rural-school programs, and after-school grants. Start with the students and instructional need, then confirm the approved use and available funds.
Selected federal funding for Kansas
FY 2026 · Published statewide awards
Title II, Part A
Educator effectiveness and instructional capacity.
View funding source ↗Title III, Part A
English-language acquisition and support for English learners.
View funding source ↗21st Century Community Learning Centers
Academic enrichment during non-school hours.
View funding source ↗Read the KANSAS row and Fiscal Year 2026 column in each federal award table. Links highlight the row in supporting browsers. These statewide allocations are not unspent funds or a dedicated tutoring budget. Allowable uses differ. Title II supports educator capacity, not general tutoring services. Confirm your district’s available balance and approved use with its program lead.
Kansas budgets and grant pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026Supplemental support
through your school plan
District-controlled award · Approved use required
Who / what it supports
Kansas Title I schools operate schoolwide or targeted assistance programs. Both support student achievement, with different participation and planning requirements.
Where tutoring could fit
Review recurring virtual math or ELA instruction against your approved plan, identified student needs, evidence requirements, and available funds. Targeted assistance services must reach eligible participating students.
Practical next step: Ask your federal programs lead to confirm the service, required set-asides, fiscal rules, and purchasing process.
Review Kansas’s Title I program guidance ↗Kansas at-risk funds.
Start with the approved use.
2026–27 accountability and evidence requirements
Who / what it supports
Kansas provides at-risk funding for additional services to identified students. Eligibility extends beyond the free-lunch count used in the funding formula. The state’s current guidance includes tutorial assistance and contracted services within its approved-use rules.
Where tutoring could fit
Review the proposed service against your district’s accountability plan and the state’s approved programs and practices. Confirm the specific approved basis or whether district provisional authorization is needed.
Practical next step: Do not assume that tutoring, or a named provider, is automatically approved. Confirm allowability with your district and KSDE before budgeting the service.
Review Kansas’s at-risk funding guidelines ↗Rural funding.
Start with district eligibility.
SRSA and RLIS · District eligibility required
Who / what it supports
Kansas rural districts may qualify for Small, Rural School Achievement grants awarded directly by the U.S. Department of Education, or Rural and Low-Income School grants administered through the state.
Where tutoring could fit
Discuss supplemental math or ELA instruction against the allowable activities and local goals of the program your district actually receives. Confirm the current eligibility year and available balance.
Practical next step: REAP’s funding flexibility is distinct from a new grant award. Ask your federal programs lead which program and spending rules apply to your district.
Review Kansas’s REAP guidance ↗Academic enrichment.
Beyond the school day.
Existing awards · Approved period and budget required
Who / what it supports
Kansas’s 21st CCLC program supports academic enrichment, student support, and family engagement before school, after school, and during summer, particularly in high-need school communities.
Where tutoring could fit
An existing grantee can review focused math or ELA instruction within its broader approved program. Confirm virtual delivery, supervision, partner arrangements, participation, and costs with the grantee and KSDE.
Practical next step: Work from an active award and its approved spending period. Confirm the current budget, remaining funds, service arrangements, and any needed KSDE approval before adding virtual tutoring. Ask KSDE directly about future competitions.
Review Kansas’s 21st CCLC guidance ↗Kansas · Program fit & purchasing
Start with fit.
Confirm the requirements.
Start with your school’s instructional goals, approved funding plan, and district purchasing requirements. Review proposed lessons, tutor qualifications, reporting, student-data protections, and local support for virtual sessions. If you intend to use Kansas state at-risk funds, confirm the approved program or practice and any required provisional authorization with your district and KSDE before committing costs.
A few useful questions
What would you like to work through?
Start here, then bring the questions specific to your students and school.
How would tutoring connect with Kansas learning goals?
Start with your school’s curriculum sequence, learning goals, and student work. Review proposed math or ELA lessons, where prerequisite support fits, and how progress will be discussed. The activity on this page is illustrative, not a reviewed Kansas curriculum crosswalk. Existing sample lessons can help start a conversation about the standards and instructional needs relevant to your school.
Which literacy changes apply now, and which begin in 2027–28?
For 2026–27, KSDE says schools may continue using their current approved screeners while following updated reporting requirements. The single statewide screener and individual literacy plans for high-risk K–3 students begin in 2027–28. The later requirements include at least 90 minutes of targeted intervention each week, which may take several instructional forms. That is not a requirement to purchase tutoring from a particular provider.
Can state at-risk funds pay for any tutoring provider?
No automatic eligibility should be assumed. Kansas has an approved list of programs and practices, plus a district provisional authorization process. Your district should document the approved basis for the proposed service and confirm any additional authorization needed with KSDE. A practice listed by the state is not a blanket endorsement of every provider using that practice.
How would virtual tutoring fit a smaller or rural school?
Plan around the students you need to serve, available intervention periods, devices, and connectivity. Live sessions need a supervised learning space and a local point of contact. Together, discuss grouping, recurring session times, attendance, and how your school team will use progress information. Virtual instruction adds access to tutors while your school maintains the local support students need.
Is the 2026 after-school grant application still open?
The 2026 application deadline has passed. Existing grantees can review partnerships within their approved scope and available funds. Contact KSDE for current award information and any future competition rather than treating older application materials as an open opportunity.
What if I’m looking for help for my own child?
This page focuses on school and district programs. For individual support, explore Cignition’s one-to-one math and ELA tutoring for families.
Your school’s next step
Let’s plan around
your students.
Planning around structured literacy and assessment-informed intervention? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Kansas school before deciding whether to book a call.
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