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Brenner, Devon – Rural Educator, 2016
On December 10, 2015 President Obama signed the "Every Student Succeeds Act," Public Law 114-95, which will take effect in the fall of 2016 and which replaces No Child Left Behind (NCLB)--the name for the nation's suite of K-12 education laws in effect from 2001 to 2016. There are many similarities between NCLB and ESSA. For example,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Rural Education
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Baker, Bruce D.; Taylor, Lori; Levin, Jesse; Chambers, Jay; Blankenship, Charles – Education Finance and Policy, 2013
Federal and state governments in the United States make extensive use of student poverty rates in compensatory aid programs like Title I. Unfortunately, the measures of student poverty that drive funding allocations under such programs are biased because they fail to reflect geographic differences in the cost of living. In this study, we construct…
Descriptors: Poverty, Rural Urban Differences, Geographic Distribution, Geographic Location