Title I Funds - Who's Gaining and Who's Losing: School Year 2006 - 07 Update
Center On Education Policy:
For the coming school year, nearly all (90 percent) of the nation's school districts participating in the federal Title I program and half of the states will have their Title I funding cut or frozen, according to a new report from the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Education Policy (CEP).
The report, Title I Funds: Who's Gaining and Who's Losing School Year 2006 estimates actual Title I gains and loses for districts and states after apply ing a mandatory 4 percent reservation of funds states must make for school improvement activities as required by the No Child Left Behind Act.
Among the states The national average per pupil allocation dropp ed from $1,425 for school year 2005-06 to $1,373 for 2006 -07, an average decrease of $52 per child.
Because of static funding streams, states will receive only 60 percent of the funds they could potentially receive under NCLB to assist schools in need of improvement.
The July 2004 version contains detailed information on the formulas used to distribute Title I funds and may be helpful in understanding this report -- it is available at http://www.cep-dc.org/pubs/Title1_Funds_15June2004/Title_1_Funds_15June2004.pdf.
Additional information on CEP, its publications and its work, is available online at www.cep-dc.org.
