Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Kentucky · Schools & districts
High-impact tutoring for Kentucky schools.
Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Connect Kentucky’s early literacy and numeracy priorities with focused instruction, student discussion, and support that fits your school’s intervention plan.
A closer look at Kentucky
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Kentucky is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Strong reading foundations. Earlier math intervention. A connected system that turns evidence of need into the next instructional step.
Official sources checked November 9, 2026
01Reading. Build from the skills a student needs.
Kentucky’s emphasis
Kentucky’s Read to Succeed work connects early screening and diagnostics with accelerated reading intervention, progress monitoring, and Reading Improvement Plans. Support extends through grade 4 for students who need it.
The Cignition connection
Bring the specific reading needs your team has identified. Review foundational-skill instruction, proposed tasks, and progress communication alongside the school’s reading plan and structured literacy approach.
02Math. Turn early evidence into a focused plan.
Kentucky’s emphasis
Numeracy Counts puts conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application together. Beginning in 2026–27, K–3 students identified as needing accelerated math intervention must have a Mathematics Improvement Plan based on diagnostic evidence.
The Cignition connection
Connect additional math instruction with the skills your team has identified and the grade-level learning ahead. Use visual models, purposeful questions, and student explanations to decide what needs more attention.
03KyMTSS. Make support part of a shared system.
Kentucky’s emphasis
Kentucky’s K–12 multi-tiered system of supports brings differentiated core instruction, assessment, and intervention together. Collaborative teams use evidence to match and adjust support, with family, school, and community partnerships woven into the work.
The Cignition connection
Set a clear skill focus, recurring tutoring time, and a routine for sharing what students can do. Keep tutoring connected with the school’s broader supports and the team responsible for instructional decisions.
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 Kentucky connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Kentucky’s emphasis on Read to Succeed, mathematics intervention, and tiered support 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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky school could protect focused reading time that reinforces the next skill in a school-led Reading Improvement Plan. 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 Kentucky school’s Read to Succeed, mathematics intervention, and tiered support.
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.
Kentucky funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Connect your instructional plan with a relevant funding source. Title I and Extended School Services offer different planning routes. Kentucky also has an open 21st CCLC competition and a separate grant for K–3 math curriculum and professional learning.
Selected federal funding for Kentucky
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 KENTUCKY row and Fiscal Year 2026 column in each federal award table. These are statewide allocations, not unspent local funds or a dedicated tutoring budget. Title II generally supports educator capacity. Confirm your district’s allocation, allowable use, and available balance before planning an expense.
Kentucky funding pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026Additional instruction.
Build from the school’s plan.
Ongoing formula funding · Local plan and approval required
Who / what it supports
Kentucky’s Title I programs support improved achievement for students in schools serving low-income communities. Schoolwide and targeted assistance models have different planning and student-service requirements.
Where tutoring could fit
Review supplemental math or reading instruction against the school’s needs assessment, program model, and approved activities. The district’s grants team determines the appropriate use and required documentation.
Practical next step: Confirm the district allocation, available balance, eligible students, approved plan, spending period, and purchasing requirements.
Review Kentucky’s Title I guidance ↗More instructional time.
Match the local ESS plan.
Ongoing district allocations · Schedule and staffing rules apply
Who / what it supports
Extended School Services (ESS) supports Kentucky students with short- or long-term academic difficulties. Funds are allocated to every district for additional instructional time.
Where tutoring could fit
Ask the district’s ESS coordinator whether the proposed virtual service and tutor qualifications fit its approved program. ESS generally operates outside regular school hours; daytime delivery requires an approved waiver.
Practical next step: Review the district ESS plan, staff qualifications, student selection, budget, supervision, and any daytime waiver before scheduling sessions.
Explore Kentucky’s ESS guidance ↗After school and summer.
Plan a complete program.
FY27 competition open · Due January 26, 2027, 4 p.m. ET
Who / what it supports
Public and private organizations may apply for Kentucky’s Cycle 24 competition to serve students primarily attending schools eligible for Title I schoolwide programs and their families. Awards range from $95,000 to $150,000 annually by applicant type and grant year, for up to five years, subject to continued funding and performance.
Where tutoring could fit
Tutoring may be an academic component of a broader program with required enrichment, family engagement, and summer services. Review any virtual component and instructor qualifications with KDE; an award does not establish approval of a tutoring provider.
Practical next step: Read the current RFA, eligibility data, required schedule and staffing, and reimbursement rules. No matching funds are required. Applications are due January 26, 2027, at 4 p.m. ET.
Review Kentucky’s FY27 grant competition ↗A separate math investment.
Know what it covers.
FY27 competition open · Due November 17, 2026, 4 p.m. ET
Who / what it supports
Kentucky lists a $70,000 award per selected district, with no matching requirement, for high-quality, research- and evidence-based K–3 math curriculum and curriculum-based professional learning to implement a new curriculum.
How to use this information
This opportunity is for curriculum and implementation learning. It is not a general tutoring-service grant. Plan any Cignition services through a separately verified funding route.
Practical next step: Review district eligibility, curriculum requirements, and the current RFA before applying. Applications are due November 17, 2026, at 4 p.m. ET.
Review Kentucky’s Numeracy Counts opportunity ↗Kentucky · Program fit & purchasing
Start with fit.
Plan the details.
Start with the reading or math needs your school team has identified. Connect additional instruction with your Reading or Mathematics Improvement Plans, classroom curriculum, and KyMTSS routines.
Bring instructional and finance leads into the decision. Confirm the funding source, allowable activities, instructor qualifications, spending period, student-data protections, and district purchasing process. ESS daytime waivers and 21st CCLC operating requirements need their own review. A grant’s availability does not by itself approve a provider or service.
A few useful questions
What would you like to work through?
Start here, then bring the questions specific to your students and school.
How could tutoring connect with Read to Succeed?
Start with the skills the school has identified through screening, diagnostic evidence, and classroom work. Review proposed reading tasks and progress communication with your literacy team. The school retains responsibility for its required reading plans, assessments, parent communication, and instructional decisions.
How does Numeracy Counts change math intervention planning?
For 2026–27, Kentucky requires Mathematics Improvement Plans for K–3 students identified as needing accelerated intervention. Your school team can use diagnostic evidence to identify a focus for additional instruction and discuss how proposed tutoring tasks connect with grade-level learning. The school remains responsible for its required plan.
Can Extended School Services pay for tutoring?
ESS supports additional instructional time for students with academic difficulties. Your district must confirm whether the proposed service, instructor qualifications, schedule, and costs meet its program requirements. ESS generally runs outside regular school hours; a daytime program requires an approved waiver.
How do you connect with our curriculum?
Share your learning sequence, classroom materials, and student work. We can review proposed Cignition lessons, prerequisite support, and reporting. Existing grade-band samples illustrate the tutoring approach; they do not establish comprehensive coverage of Kentucky’s standards.
Is the Numeracy Counts grant a tutoring grant?
The current FY27 opportunity funds K–3 math curriculum and curriculum-based professional learning to implement a new curriculum. It should not be treated as a general budget for tutoring services. Applications are due November 17, 2026, at 4 p.m. ET; consult KDE’s current RFA for eligibility and requirements.
What if I’m looking for help for my own child?
This page focuses on school and district partnerships. For tutoring arranged directly by a family, explore Cignition’s family plans and discuss your child’s learning goals, grade level, and scheduling needs.
Your school’s next step
Let’s plan around
your students.
Planning around Read to Succeed, mathematics intervention, and tiered support? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Kentucky school before deciding whether to book a call.
On our contact page, choose “Another question” for an information request or “School or district tutoring” to explore a program.