Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Texas · Schools & districts
High-impact tutoring for Texas schools.
Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Connect Texas accelerated instruction, early learning, and TEKS goals with focused instruction, consistent tutors, and a plan your school can support.
A closer look at Texas
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Texas is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Accelerated instruction with a clear learning target. Strong reading and math foundations. A connection between your students’ next steps, classroom instruction, and Texas learning expectations.
Official sources checked November 5, 2026
01Accelerated instruction. Make the time count.
Texas’s emphasis
Texas connects accelerated instruction to STAAR results in grades 3–8 and end-of-course assessments. Its guidance prioritizes math and reading language arts, with specific expectations for supplemental instruction and consistent tutors. Requirements and current waiver provisions need to be reviewed for each district.
The Cignition connection
Start with the assessed learning need and your TEKS sequence. Agree on grouping, tutor continuity, session frequency, and attendance. Review the proposed program against your district’s accelerated instruction obligations before selecting the delivery plan.
02Early learning. Respond to the right skill.
Texas’s emphasis
Texas is expanding its focus on foundational literacy and numeracy. Current 2026–27 assessment requirements remain in place. The new K–3 literacy and numeracy assessment requirements begin in 2027–28, giving schools a transition to plan for.
The Cignition connection
Use the assessment information your school already collects to identify the reading or math skill to address. Discuss explicit instruction, purposeful practice, and progress information. Your school continues to lead required screening, instructional decisions, and family communication.
03Mathematical reasoning. Connect models and methods.
Texas’s emphasis
The math TEKS connect problem solving, representations, communication, and procedures. Grade 6, for example, includes modeling integer operations and connecting a model’s actions to an algorithm. Students need opportunities to explain why a method works.
The Cignition connection
Use a visual model and well-chosen questions to make student thinking visible. Review prerequisite support alongside the current classroom target, then build toward the next step in the school’s learning sequence.
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 Texas connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Texas’s emphasis on accelerated instruction and strong reading and mathematics foundations provides context for reviewing this sample. Examine how a learner connects integer operations with a model and explains a change.
Compare the task and prerequisites with your classroom sequence and student work.
Explore a sample lesson
Middle school mathematics
Math · 6–8 sample. Open the student lesson to examine the tasks for yourself.
Open the middle school mathematics sample ↗
What should we look for?
Consider how a learner connects integer operations with a model and explains a change. 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 Texas 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 Texas school could consider recurring math support linked to an identified learning need, with applicable accelerated-instruction conditions agreed before launch. 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 Texas school’s accelerated instruction and strong reading and mathematics foundations.
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.
Texas funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Explore federal formula funds, State Compensatory Education, and early-learning allotments. Start with the students and instructional need, then confirm the approved use and available funds.
Selected federal funding for Texas
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 TEXAS 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.
Texas funding pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026Additional instruction.
A plan tied to student needs.
District-controlled funding · Approved plan and use required
Who / what it supports
Title I-A supports improved educational opportunities in schools serving concentrations of students from low-income families. Texas schools operate schoolwide or targeted assistance programs, with different student participation and planning rules.
Where tutoring could fit
Discuss supplemental math or ELA instruction against identified needs, the approved school and district plans, and available funds. Confirm student eligibility when using a targeted assistance program.
Practical next step: Ask your federal programs lead to review the proposed service, evidence, required set-asides, and purchasing requirements before committing funds.
Review Texas Title I-A guidance ↗Targeted support.
Start with the local plan.
State Compensatory Education · Student and program rules apply
Who / what it supports
Texas State Compensatory Education supports programs and services for students at risk of dropping out of school. The focus is on reducing disparities in academic performance and high school completion.
Where tutoring could fit
Review intensive or accelerated math and reading instruction for eligible students against your district and campus improvement plans. Confirm the intended service, staffing, student eligibility, and current budget with your SCE lead.
Practical next step: Document the identified need, planned service, and required evaluation. An allotment does not make every tutoring cost allowable or establish approval of a provider.
Explore Texas compensatory education guidance ↗Reading and math.
Check the allotment rules.
HB 2 changes · Required uses and district balances matter
Who / what it supports
Texas changed the Early Education Allotment under HB 2, including funding for Reading and Mathematics Academies and full-day prekindergarten. Review the required uses before identifying any available amount for other eligible early-learning support.
Where tutoring could fit
Discuss proposed PK–3 reading or math services against the applicable allotment, current TEA guidance, and your district’s approved budget. Separately, the new Early Literacy Intervention Allotment begins in 2026–27 and has its own student eligibility and funding limits.
Practical next step: Confirm qualifying reading interventions before using Early Literacy Intervention funds. Students generating the dyslexia allotment are excluded, and funding is capped at 10 percent of district K–3 enrollment. Review the proposed costs and available balance with your finance lead.
Review TEA’s HB 2 funding changes ↗Texas · Program fit & purchasing
A purchasing pathway.
A local decision.
Texas schools can review two Cignition TIPS awards and determine which one fits the proposed purchase:
- 250802, Academic and Educational Goods and Services
Full contract term through October 31, 2030. - 250106, Technology Solutions, Products, and Services
Full contract term through May 31, 2030.
The vendor profile lists Texas among the states served. Confirm membership, the relevant award and service scope, pricing, and your district’s purchasing requirements before using this route.
A cooperative contract is separate from TEA approval for a specific initiative. Review the actual service, funding rules, and ordering requirements with your purchasing team.
If the service is intended to satisfy a Texas accelerated-instruction requirement, verify that requirement separately from cooperative purchasing eligibility. Confirm the funding, available balance, scope, tutor qualifications, student-data protections, and contract with your district.
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 the TEKS?
Start with your school’s TEKS goals, curriculum sequence, and student work. Review proposed Cignition lessons, prerequisite support, and how progress will be discussed. The activity on this page illustrates an instructional connection. It is not a reviewed curriculum crosswalk or a claim that one task covers an entire standard. Existing grade-band samples can help begin a more specific curriculum conversation.
Can tutoring support our accelerated instruction plan?
Yes, we can discuss instructional and operational fit. Texas supplemental instruction rules include 15 or 30 hours based on performance, grouping requirements, and tutor continuity. Current waiver provisions can also affect a district’s obligations. Confirm the applicable requirements with your district, then review the proposed schedule, tutor preparation, lessons, and documentation. A tutoring contract alone does not establish compliance.
Does having a TIPS contract mean Cignition is approved by the Texas Education Agency (TEA)?
No. The TIPS contract provides a cooperative purchasing route for eligible members. It is separate from a state initiative’s provider approval, a program-specific materials list, or a district’s decision about instructional fit. Your team should confirm the contract’s relevant service scope and its own purchasing and funding requirements.
What needs to be in place for live virtual tutoring?
Agree on the students, instructional goals, recurring intervention time, and appropriate groups. Students need working devices, connectivity, a supervised learning space, and a local point of contact. Plan how attendance, student work, and progress information will inform your school’s next decisions. Review funding and any accelerated instruction requirements alongside that implementation plan.
How do we confirm which funds can support tutoring?
Bring your current school and district plans, student eligibility information, funding balances, and proposed service to your finance or program lead. Review allowable costs, evidence and purchasing requirements, and any required approvals before committing funds. The statewide figures above describe published allocations, not an open grant application or your district’s available tutoring budget.
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 accelerated instruction and strong reading and mathematics foundations? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Texas school before deciding whether to book a call.
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