For 46 years, the United States Department of Education (USDOE) has used the Title I program as a means of helping school districts increase educational opportunities for low-income students. In the past 10 years alone, the federal government has expended over $140 billion on Title I, yet many observers feel it has fallen well short of its mark of…

This report argues that advance appropriations serve no functional purpose for schools, but they create a loss of transparency, comparability, and simplicity in federal education budgeting. It allocates spending before future budgets have been established. The approach was originally used to skirt spending limits and budget procedures in place…

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…

This document contains a synthesized review of current State subcounty allocation procedures and assesses the impact and feasibility of four alternative allocation strategies. The review indicates that in the current subcounty allocation process, the United States Office of Education (USOE) uses a single formula to calculate county entitlements…

Assesses the equity of the current formula for determining allocation of federal funds under Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, considers possible alternative means of assessing disadvantagement levels and cost differentials between geographic areas, and proposes specific changes. (PGD)

This report describes the issues to be considered and the decisions required for developing a plan to equalize resource distribution in District of Columbia schools. It compares the specifications for equalization under the court-ordered Wright Decree with those of Title I. It considers concepts of equality, resources to be equalized, definition…

Eight matters relative to the Illinois general purpose educational grant-in-aid that might be subjected to further research and development are discussed. The eight matters are (1) the use of a notational system based on the concept of a guaranteed expenditure for each cent of tax effort, (2) the possibility of adding a curvature to the present…

This brief discusses issues of school finance equity as they relate to resources and services provided to special education students. It uses information obtained from a recent study of Chapter 1, which examined educational resources and expenditures in 95 elementary schools in 30 school districts across 5 states. The schools had students with…

The largest single federal elementary and secondary education grant program to local school districts is title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. Title I educational services may be financed by four funding formulas, which cover basic grants, concentration grants, targeted grants, and Education Finance Incentive…