The regulations and guidelines issued by the Office of Education and state education agencies imply that local districts must provide "something extra" with ESEA Title I funds. In many schools, other compensatory education programs also compete for the time of Title I eligible students. In an attempt to determine what the something extra is that Title I provides and the effects of multiple compensatory programs on providing the something extra, information from a 1976-77 study of elementary school students served by multiple compensatory programs and a study involving daylong observations of 225 students was analyzed to answer the following questions: Are Title I students receiving something extra? If a student is served by Title I and a bilingual program, does the something extra from Title I get lost in the competition for the student's time and attention? The results show that students served only by Title I worked in smaller groups than students in non-Title I schools. Students in Title I schools spent more time in activities which did not involve direct instruction (assemblies, school fairs, field trips, etc.) than did students in non-Title I schools. Further, students served by Title I and a bilingual program received substantially less reading instruction than did the other students observed. (Author/GC)