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Carlas McCauley – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to examine the intersection of social class inequality and education policy through the lens of an analysis of the experiences and effects of state, local, and federal policy meant to engage communities around the use of federal funds to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students. The author intends to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Federal Aid, Resource Allocation
Mohamed Alansari; Hana Turner-Adams; Mengnan Li – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2023
The Ministry of Education provides schools with equity funding, in addition to their core funding, so they can work in different ways to help students with socioeconomic barriers reach their potential. Through Budget 2022, the Government has provided a 50% ($75 million) increase in equity funding. From January 2023, the Ministry has used the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Equity (Finance), Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Carey, Kevin; Roza, Marguerite – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2008
This report examines funding disparities between two seemingly similar schools in Virginia and North Carolina. It finds that the federal, state, and local policies designed to distribute education funds systematically provide more money to higher-income students and wealthier schools. (Contains 5 figures.) [This report was also produced by the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Education, Educational Equity (Finance), Federal Aid
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1994
This General Accounting Office (GAO) report addresses the concern raised by Senator Thad Cochran that revising counts of people in poverty (by adjusting the official poverty line for geographic differences in the cost of living) could significantly alter the allocation of federal aid to state and local governments. A concern is that a…
Descriptors: Costs, Economically Disadvantaged, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid
Bruno, James E. – 1969
This paper reports a preliminary study on the development of a linear-programing- type model to stimulate a constrained Federal program of educational support to the States. This model determines the distribution of fixed amount funds according to some measure of effectiveness. Federal involvement so far has been in the form of Federal aid that is…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid, Mathematical Models
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Browning, Edgar K. – Public Interest, 1976
Through an examination of the economic and ethical implications of additional redistribution, the author shows that the massive redistribution currently taking place each year makes it very costly to attempt to move still further toward equality. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Equalization Aid, Federal Aid, Finance Reform, Financial Policy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1978
This volume presents the proceedings of hearings concerning the allocation of Title I funds to States, districts, and individual schools. Proposals and a discussion of a bill introduced to change the allocation formula from an economic base to an achievement base are included. Other issues discussed in this volume are: the Elementary and Secondary…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Brown, Lawrence L., III; And Others – 1978
This study examines the entitlement and payment arrangements set out in the maintenance and operations portion of the impact aid laws. Section 1 provides a brief background description of the program, including the changes made in the 1974 Amendments, a recent budget history, and a description of the program's beneficiaries. Section 2 contains an…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Alexander, David – 1974
Current problems in educational finance center on revenue sources, equalization of educational opportunities, efficiency, and adequacy. As of 1972, the percentages of revenue received from Federal, State, and local sources for public schools were: 7.1 percent, 40.9 percent, and 52 percent respectfully. Since consolidation of certain categorical…
Descriptors: American Indians, Educational Finance, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Jones, Thomas H. – 1975
The guiding idea behind regional educational arrangements has changed from regulating and controlling the activities of local school districts to providing specialized services that local districts could not undertake on their own. This change has implications for finance that center on the method of finance flow--whether funds come from local…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid
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Verstegen, Deborah A. – Journal of Education Finance, 1985
Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) reduced and redistributed federal aid to education, moving funds from targeted areas of need to all areas regardless of need. States were unable to make up for significant losses in aid sustained by local districts. (TE)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid
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Mandel, Allan S. – Integrated Education, 1976
Study investigates disparities in per pupil resources at the school and classroom level rather than state and district. Data indicates that intra-school and inter-school (within a district) variations are as large as and in some cases larger than inter-district variation. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Management Systems. – 1977
This report describes the program for financing public schools in Florida. The intent is to supply general information for those having a casual interest in state funding of schools and more detailed descriptions for the school administrator or the student of school finance. The first section of the report describes key features of the Florida…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Costs, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
President's Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise, Washington, DC. – 1971
Although minority groups make up 17 percent of the population, they control only a small fraction of the productive resources of the nation. The President's Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise was created to develop a national program to define minority enterprise goals and to design strategies for attaining them. This report presents…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Capital, Career Opportunities, Economic Opportunities
Hyman, James B. – 1977
The purpose of this paper is to provide brief sketches of a variety of issues for consideration by the National Institute of Education as new or continued initiatives in future planning to understand educational finance and equity. The issues are categorized under four general areas of concern--equity issues (cost of education indexes; fixed…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
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