Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Louisiana · Schools & districts
High-dosage tutoring for Louisiana schools.
Live, virtual math and ELA tutoring for Louisiana schools and families. Cignition is approved for K–5 Accelerate literacy and math, and for the after-school Steve Carter program. Explore the pathway that fits your students.
A closer look at Louisiana
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Louisiana is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Explicit reading instruction. Earlier insight into numeracy. High-dosage tutoring that builds on classroom learning and gives students consistent time to make progress.
Official sources checked November 5, 2026
01Literacy. Be explicit about the next skill.
Louisiana’s emphasis
Louisiana’s literacy pillars connect clear learning goals with high-quality core instruction, explicit intervention, ongoing educator learning, and family involvement. Additional instruction should respond to a student’s specific need.
The Cignition connection
Share your reading data, instructional sequence, and current materials. Review proposed tutoring lessons with your literacy team so the support reinforces the reading work already underway. Agree on how student progress will inform the next instructional step.
02Numeracy. Respond early and deliberately.
Louisiana’s emphasis
Louisiana’s K–3 numeracy screener is fully operational in 2026–27, alongside literacy screening. The state’s math strategy emphasizes strong core instruction, proactive intervention, and families as partners.
The Cignition connection
Bring the mathematical idea students are still developing, not just a total score. Review visual models, purposeful questions, and prerequisite support with your team. Use student explanations to connect intervention with the next classroom learning goal.
03Accelerate. Build consistency into the school day.
Louisiana’s emphasis
Accelerate addresses identified K–5 literacy and math needs through high-dosage tutoring or a highly effective teacher in the identified content area. Tutoring is school-day support, at least three times a week for a minimum of ten weeks, in groups of no more than four.
The Cignition connection
For students your school identifies for tutoring, build a recurring schedule around core instruction. Review the proposed materials, consistent tutor or tutor team, local supervision, and progress communication. Virtual delivery is permitted under Louisiana’s program guidance.
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 Louisiana connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Louisiana’s emphasis on explicit reading, early numeracy, and high-dosage tutoring 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 Louisiana and is not a comprehensive state standards alignment. For a specific alignment question, share the standard and classroom materials with our team.
Existing Louisiana math resource · FY25
Explore the earlier grades 6–8 mathematics alignment overview and its sample lesson. It reflects the standards used before the 2027–28 transition. Review it against your current curriculum and learning goals; it is separate from the grade-band sample above.
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 Louisiana school could coordinate K–5 school-day tutoring under an eligible Accelerate plan with clear attendance and learning review. 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 Louisiana school’s explicit reading, early numeracy, and high-dosage tutoring.
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.
Louisiana funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Explore district Title I-A funds, school-system Accelerate allocations, and family-directed Steve Carter vouchers. Each has a different purpose, eligibility process, and purchasing route.
Selected federal funding for Louisiana
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 LOUISIANA row and Fiscal Year 2026 column in each federal award table. Links highlight the row in supporting browsers. These are statewide allocations, not unspent local funds or a dedicated tutoring budget. Title II generally supports educator capacity. Confirm your school system’s allocation, allowable use, and available balance before planning an expense.
Louisiana funding pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026Additional instruction.
Start with the school’s plan.
Ongoing federal formula funding · Approved local use required
Who / what it supports
Louisiana’s Title I-A funds support schoolwide programs or targeted assistance for eligible students. The school’s program model and identified academic needs determine how funds may be used.
Where tutoring could fit
Review supplemental math or literacy intervention against the school’s needs assessment and plan. Louisiana’s 2026–27 guide includes high-quality curriculum, assessments, and interventions among allowable costs when the program requirements are met.
Practical next step: Ask your federal programs lead to confirm eligible students, the approved activity, available balance, set-asides, purchasing, and documentation. Statewide award totals do not establish a local tutoring budget.
Review Louisiana’s Title I-A guidance ↗School-day tutoring.
Use the system’s approved plan.
2026–27 state HDT allocations · Eligible K–5 students
Who / what it supports
Accelerate uses literacy and numeracy screening and grades 4–5 LEAP results to identify student needs. State tutoring allocations must support eligible students who are not served by a highly effective teacher in the identified content area.
Where tutoring could fit
A school system with an approved plan and allocation can contract with a listed provider. Cignition is approved for virtual K–5 literacy and math. State HDT allocations used for external Accelerate services require outcomes-based contracting in 2026–27.
Practical next step: Confirm the allocation and approved plan, eligible student groups, allowable costs, school-day schedule, and contract terms. This is an existing school-system funding pathway, not an open competitive grant application.
Review Louisiana’s current Accelerate rules ↗After-school support.
A family-directed voucher.
2026–27 program · Eligible Louisiana public-school K–12 students
Who / what it supports
Eligible families can apply for a $1,500 annual digital voucher for literacy and math tutoring outside the school day. Screening or LEAP criteria vary by grade; the state portal determines eligibility.
Where tutoring could fit
Families select an approved provider through Louisiana’s tutoring portal. Cignition is an approved Steve Carter provider offering live virtual literacy and math tutoring.
Practical next step: Apply through the state portal and confirm the child’s eligibility, available voucher balance, approved services, and current provider availability before arranging sessions.
Review the Steve Carter family program ↗Direct Student Services and Steve Carter tutoring
Louisiana’s DSS guidance allows awarded school systems to match or expand Steve Carter services and authorize LDOE to submit payments on their behalf. Systems must conduct targeted outreach and inform eligible families about available tutoring. Review the current allocation, approved plan, and Steve Carter provider requirements with your school system. DSS also has separate AI and national-assessment uses; Cignition’s Steve Carter approval does not establish approval for those other categories.
Louisiana · Two approved programs
Approved for
both programs.
Louisiana offers two distinct routes to tutoring. Cignition participates in both, with different arrangements for schools and families.
Accelerate: High-Dosage Tutoring
School-system led · During the school day
Cignition is an approved virtual provider for K–5 literacy and math. School systems select a provider and organize support for students who meet Louisiana’s criteria.
Plan the outcomes-based contract before launch.
For 2026–27, external Accelerate services paid from state HDT allocations require an outcomes-based contract. LDOE’s guidance calls for at least 40% of the total contract value to depend on student outcomes. Build an all-inclusive rate card with a base payment, 2–5 contingent payment outcomes, per-student prices, caps, and payment timing.
Use DIBELS for K–3 literacy, the statewide numeracy screener for K–3 math, and LEAP for grades 4–5 ELA and math. LDOE also allows paper-based DIBELS for grades 4–5 ELA. Align the 10-week tutoring cycle with the selected assessment window, and define data sharing, school and provider responsibilities, and regular progress reviews before services begin.
Put attendance expectations in the contract’s implementation provisions, rather than the payment rate card. The school system verifies invoices and outcome calculations. Quarterly reporting includes the paid invoice and executed contract; retain student-level supporting records locally.
Review Louisiana’s OBC planning guidance ↗
Steve Carter Tutoring Program
Family directed · Outside the school day
Cignition is also an approved Steve Carter provider. Eligible families of Louisiana public-school K–12 students can apply for a $1,500 annual digital voucher for literacy and math tutoring, then select an approved provider through the state portal.
How families participate: Confirm the child’s eligibility, voucher funding, and provider availability through the portal before arranging tutoring. This family-directed voucher is separate from a school system’s Accelerate allocation.
For a school partnership, confirm the funding route, instructional fit, contract, local requirements, and student-data protections before selecting a provider.
A few useful questions
What would you like to work through?
Start here, then bring the questions specific to your students and school.
Is Cignition an approved provider in Louisiana?
Yes. Cignition is an approved provider in both programs. Accelerate lists Cignition for virtual K–5 literacy and math during the school day. Steve Carter is a separate, family-directed program for eligible Louisiana public-school K–12 students outside the school day. Each route has its own eligibility and funding requirements.
Which math standards should guide a 2026–27 plan?
Louisiana’s existing math standards continue to guide instruction and LEAP assessment in 2026–27. It is a learning year for the revised 2026 standards, which take full effect in 2027–28. Review proposed tutoring lessons against the standards and curriculum your school is currently using, while planning for the transition.
What does school-day Accelerate tutoring involve?
The program calls for at least three sessions a week over a minimum of ten weeks, with no more than four students and a consistent tutor or small tutor team. Sessions are generally 30 minutes, or shorter when developmentally appropriate. Virtual delivery is permitted. Your school system determines student eligibility and coordinates tutoring with core instruction.
When is outcomes-based contracting required?
Beginning in 2026–27, an external Accelerate contract paid from state high-dosage tutoring allocations must use outcomes-based contracting. Before launch, the school system and provider should define assessment measures, payment terms, attendance expectations, reporting, and documentation responsibilities. The school system reviews and approves invoices.
What needs to be in place for virtual sessions?
Agree on learning goals, student groups, a recurring schedule, and a school contact. Students need working devices, reliable connectivity, and a supervised learning space. Review proposed lessons, tutor preparation, assessment data, privacy, and progress communication before launch. For Accelerate, confirm that the arrangement meets your approved plan and funding conditions.
What if I’m looking for help for my own child?
The Steve Carter program is separate from school-day Accelerate. It offers eligible Louisiana public-school K–12 students an annual digital voucher for approved after-school tutoring. Visit the state portal for current screening and LEAP eligibility criteria, the family application, and provider selection.
Explore Steve Carter eligibility and providers ↗
For other family tutoring options, explore Cignition’s family plans →.
Your school’s next step
Let’s plan around
your students.
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