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Download full textChristopher A. Candelaria; Ishtiaque Fazlul; Cory Koedel; Kenneth A. Shores – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
We study the progressivity of state funding of school districts under Tennessee's weighted student funding formula. We propose a simple definition of progressivity based on the difference in exposure to district per-pupil funding between poor and non-poor students. The realized progressivity of district funding in Tennessee is much smaller--only…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Equalization Aid, State Aid, Educational Finance
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2011
The "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965" ("ESEA") requires that school districts provide services to higher-poverty, Title I schools, from state and local funds, that are at least comparable to services in lower-poverty, non-Title I schools. The current Title I comparability requirement allows school districts to…
Descriptors: Poverty, Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Finance
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
Vernez, Georges – 1978
Five interpretations of equity are examined as they relate to the distribution of public goods and services. The first principle, utilitarianism, maintains that individuals are free to pursue their own interests and are rewarded according to contributions. The second principle, needs, is the basis of communist societies in which each gives…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged, Equal Facilities
Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, CA. Educational Policy Research Center. – 1974
Presented is a two-part study which represents a broadly based effort to assess the consequences of federal compensatory funds being targeted toward elementary students showing low achievement rather than only to those who were first low income and then low achieving. Part 1 deals with the technical issues of suitability, feasibility, and cost…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Criterion Referenced Tests
Drazen, Shelley – 1990
The extent and effects of inequities in Chapter 1 compensatory funding and the relationships between demographic, financial, and educational variables and state and local Chapter 1 policies are investigated. Multiple regression analysis is used to determine the relationships among dependent variables, which include expenditures and number of…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational Needs
