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Danielle Farrie – Education Law Center, 2024
New Jersey, like many states, has long struggled with the tension of maintaining a well-funded public education system while not overburdening residents with high property taxes. New Jersey's school funding formula, 2008's School Funding Reform Act (SFRA), includes a determination of how much local funding -- raised through property taxes -- is…
Descriptors: Public Education, Funding Formulas, Taxes, State Legislation
Bruce D. Baker; Matthew Di Carlo; Mark Weber – Albert Shanker Institute, 2024
In the United States, K-12 school finance is largely controlled by the states. Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars in public funds are distributed based on 51 different configurations of formulas, rules, and regulations to over 13,000 districts that vary in terms of the students they serve, their ability to raise revenue locally, and many…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Funding Formulas
Skinner, Rebecca R.; Sorenson, Isobel – Congressional Research Service, 2022
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), most recently comprehensively amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; P.L. 114-95), is the primary source of federal aid to support elementary and secondary education. The Title I-A program is the largest grant program authorized under the ESEA and was funded at $16.5 billion for FY2021.…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Skinner, Rebecca R.; Sorenson, Isobel – Congressional Research Service, 2022
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), most recently comprehensively amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; P.L. 114-95), is the primary source of federal aid to support elementary and secondary education. The Title I-A program is the largest grant program authorized under the ESEA and was funded at $16.3 billion for FY2020.…
Descriptors: State Aid, Grants, Educational Finance, Federal Legislation
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Stephen Q. Cornman; Osei Ampadu; Kaitlin Hanak; Stephen Wheeler – National Center for Education Statistics, 2024
This First Look report presents data on public elementary and secondary education revenues and expenditures at the local education agency (LEA) or school district level for fiscal year (FY) 2022. Specifically, this report includes the following types of school district finance data: (1) revenue, current expenditure, and capital outlay expenditure…
Descriptors: Income, Expenditures, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Sarah Cashdollar; Mariana Barragan Torres; Meg Bates – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2024
This report provides a first look at how Illinois school districts' uses of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds were related to their test score outcomes in the years following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data on districts' ESSER expenditures as of November 2023, the authors analyze test score trends across…
Descriptors: School Districts, Federal Aid, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs
National Center for Homeless Education, 2022
Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 (McKinney-Vento Act) authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to states [42 U.S.C. § 11432(a)]. Grants provide services and activities to improve the identification of students who qualify as homeless, as well as to enable the students to enroll in, attend, and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, Access to Education, Grants
Farrie, Danielle; Sciarra, David G. – Education Law Center, 2022
"Making the Grade" provides an annual overview of the condition of school finance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The data in this edition gives a picture of states' investment in their public school systems in the 2019-20 school year, the historic moment when public education, and society at large, experienced the massive…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), State Aid, Educational Finance, Public Schools
Center for Public Education, National School Boards Association, 2021
Hold-harmless provisions in state aid formulas are meant to restrict declines in revenues for school districts. They may take several forms, including limits on the changes in state aid from year to year, supplemental funding for districts with declining enrollment, alternatives for calculating the state aid amount, or use of past enrollments in…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, School Districts, Declining Enrollment
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Isenberg, Eric; Webber, Ann – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2021
These are the appendices for "State and District Use of Title II, Part A Funds in 2019-20." The study is designed to provide information about how states and districts use Title II-A funds, in response to a statutory requirement to collect and publicly report this information annually. The report is based on surveys of all states and of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance
Center for Public Education, 2020
With the nationwide school closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic, districts are seeking more technology support to connect every student online and continue teaching and learning with the help of digital devices. This data brief provides school leaders with a national picture of the E-rate program, which can help schools to decrease by as…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Educational Finance, Educational Technology, Internet
Danielle Farrie; Robert Kim – Education Law Center, 2023
"Making the Grade analyzes the condition of public school funding in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The current report presents a picture of school funding in 2020-2021, the first full school year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the most recent data available. The report ranks and grades each state on three measures to answer the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Ethics, Expenditure per Student
Polson, Diana; Henninger-Voss, Eugene – Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 2020
The United States and Pennsylvania economies remain deeply depressed compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic. While the unemployment rate has come back down to around 7% (7.3% in Pennsylvania, 6.9% in the U.S.), Pennsylvania had 488,000 fewer jobs in October than February and the U.S., 10 million fewer. With COVID case rates higher than ever and…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Educational Finance, COVID-19, Pandemics
Skinner, Rebecca R. – Congressional Research Service, 2022
This report provides an overview of major provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). It also includes a table showing annual appropriations for ESEA programs for FY2017 through FY2022, as well as a table showing the transition in authorized programs and related appropriations from FY2016, when No Child Left Behind Act of 2001…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Finance
Malatras, Jim – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2018
Every school district in New York spends more per student than the national average. Yet, there are variations among districts -- largely depending on communities' relative wealth to help fund their school district. State aid attempts to equalize local wealth capacity among districts, which is evident by the fact that more than 72 percent of the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, School Districts, State Aid
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