Many Children Left Behind: How Title I Weighted Granted Formulas Favor the Few at the Expense of the Many in Pennsylvania

Autor/inn/en	Strange, Marty; Johnson, Jerry; Finical, Ashton
Institution	Rural School and Community Trust, Randolph, VT.
Titel	Many Children Left Behind: How Title I Weighted Granted Formulas Favor the Few at the Expense of the Many in Pennsylvania
Quelle	(2009), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Weighted Scores; Grants; Federal Programs; Federal Aid; Poverty; Educational Finance; Federal Legislation; School District Size; Case Studies; Comparative Analysis; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Armut; Bildungsfonds; Bundesrecht; School district; School districts; Size; Schuleinzugsbereich; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	The authors discuss two "weighted" grant formulas intended to better target funding to districts with the highest concentrations of poverty, contending that under weighted grants, undesirable effects can occur, including: (1) Per pupil funding for a Title I student in a large school district is greater than that for a Title I student in a smaller district with the same poverty rate; (2) Total funding for Title I students who attend one large district is greater than that for the same number of Title I students who are dispersed in many smaller districts, even though the smaller districts have the same aggregate poverty rate as the large district; and (3) Per pupil funding for a Title I student in a larger district with less poverty may be greater than that for a Title I student in a smaller district with more poverty. According to the authors, the weighting system effectively redirected over $14 million from more than 400 Pennsylvania school districts to just nine districts in school year 2007-2008. (Contains 4 footnotes and 9 tables.) [Financial support for this research was provided by The Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the Pennsylvania Association of Federal Program Coordinators.] (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Rural School and Community Trust. 1530 Wilson Boulevard #240, Arlington, VA 22209. Tel: 703-243-1487; Web site: http://www.ruraledu.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10