In 2009 President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Dragoset, et al., 2017). The Recovery Act served as the financial umbrella which helped to allocate $3 billion to fund School Improvement Grants to support states and school districts in championing original, innovative programs as well as to hire staff to narrow the academic achievement gap (Dragoset et al., 2017). The problem was the limited research on the extent to which math and reading intervention programs funded by the School Improvement Grant have impacted academic achievement. The purpose of this quantitative correlational analysis study was to determine if a correlation exists between the inclusion of School Improvement Grant funded academic programs and Scholastic Assessment Test scores in math and reading in a large urban school district in a northern U.S. State.